Dec 28 2008
Is it a bad holiday season because sales are down?
You’ll be reading in the papers this week that we just suffered through a bad holiday season. Retail sales were down during the season, somewhere around 5.5 percent to 8 percent.
But does that make this a truly bad holiday season? I mean we can’t always spend more than we did the year before can we? There has to be some limit to the amount of money we as a country fritter away during the holidays.
Think about this. It’s only three days after Christmas as I write this. Do you even remember everything you received for the holiday? I know I can’t, and we made a concerted effort this year to spend less than usual.
I’m not a religious person, at all. But I do think that Christmas has become too much about spending, too much about spending stressful hours searching for that perfect gift. Christmas should be about spending time with family and friends. It should be about taking a much-needed break from work. Instead, it’s about spending, and that’s kind of sad.
Here’s hoping that you had a good holiday season, and that you have a fun New Year’s celebration planned, even though the cash registers didn’t ring quite as loudly this year.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely agree. I mean, Christmas should be time for family getting together and feeling relaxed being with each other. Since gifts and santa clause involve, we usually geel guilty not buying the right gift for someone we love. Therefore, Christmas was usually stressful to individual rather than happy. Man, kids want too much.