How many of you work or have worked retail? Come on, raise your hands. I know most of you have at one point in your life. Have you noticed how the holidays start earlier and earlier every year?
It use to be the new calenders didn’t arrive until fall and now they are arriving weeks after the old calenders have been clearanced out. Halloween titles and product start arriving in the store in late July. Followed very quickly by the Christmas titles and product.
Yesterday I set up a required display in the store. A display sent down from on high (ie New York) with a required title list. This list only has 7 titles on it. The date is September 29th. Three, yes three, of the seven titles on that list were Christmas titles. Happy Holidays!
You may think I am complaining about this and while it does strike me as weird, I love it. I was born in December and I love the whole holiday season and if it is getting longer that is just more to enjoy.
My parents were divorced before I was three and during the holidays my sisters and I celebrated everything twice. Once with mom and once with dad. Then you throw in my birthday, again once with mom and once with dad, and the holidays were the best time of the year. I saw my parents, my grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, that strange gentlemen in the corner I have no idea how he is related to me, everyone. I also received presents of course. Never a bad thing.
Now many people in my life have passed on and the holidays are not so full of family but I still see my dad and my sisters and some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. As for the strange gentleman in the corner, I know his name now. I do more giving of presents than receiving as I have four kids of my own and many neices and nephews and cousins once removed. The holidays are good times.
Now I need to figure out four costumes, two girls and two boys before the month is up. And find my Christmas music.
