We have had a winter weather week. Schools were closed yesterday which was the last day before Christmas break. We are set for some more snow this evening followed by a blast of Canadian air that will bring temperatures down to actual single digits and wind chills below zero.
Today there are four shopping days before Christmas Eve. There are always the mad folks that leave much of their purchasing to Christmas Eve but these next 4 days crowds will form lines.
At least that's the picture in years past. I do not know how the spending season is going this year. I know several families where someone is either laid off without pay due to manufacturing pull backs or someone has lost their job in the last 6 months.
My cousin lost his job back in the summer. He was an economic/banker mind behind large international real estate development deals. Most of us thought the hardest hit were the victims of predator lenders but the economic illness is an equal opportunity killer.
Will you join in the madness at the mall? Will you be paying for express shipping for purchases made on the internet? Will you pare back the number of packages you will be wrapping and giving or will you pare back the amounts spent or will you stretch the credit card to the limit?
Let us refocus on the reason for the season and the reason for the giving without destroying our future security.
'til later
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