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In reply to the discussion: Do they REALLY think MOOD is the reason for less holiday spending?? [View all]sybylla
(8,461 posts)I don't disagree with you. I think that for a lot of people, mood=paycheck (including one person I'm living with who lost her job in May). Kind of hard to spend money when you don't have any.
But I don't have paycheck woes to speak of beyond the usual middleclass stuff. So when we got over our Thanksgiving colds and I headed out to the stores, I was prepared to be wooed and wowed by the "great deals" the MSM were telling me that retailers were offering.
I saw none.
Not one great deal. In fact, the store that I usually do most of my shopping at had very few of the items on sale that I usually buy at the holidays. So I went to another. Found a few better deals there, but still not much to speak of.
I had a certain amount of money set aside for the holidays - a dollar amount that hasn't changed for several years. Even loaning some of it to the unemployed person in my household for x-mas gifts, I can tell you I spent only about 2/3rds of what I set aside.
Worst shopping season for me ever.