Christmas creep this year has been unprecedented. Decorations, music, ornament aisles, all up well before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
But even Black Friday creep has been apparent and, from recent memory, is also a first. Amazon had a full week of deals starting today. Several large retailers, like Walmart, are having sales on Thanksgiving day itself. Sears is running television commercials about Black Friday sales all of this month on Saturday!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s madness. And the stores may tell <\/em>you that it\u2019s an attempt to spread out the shopping madness that causes riots and stampedes and unfortunate deaths, but I think it\u2019s really because of the downturn in the retail economy.<\/p>\n I think that this year, Katie and I\u2019ll just stay home. There isn\u2019t anything we really need this year, other than baby stuff, and with a belly full of not just turkey but also baby, I\u2019d want to be extra careful not to get into the middle of a Black Friday mosh pit of despair.<\/p>\n Besides, with my free trial of Amazon Prime, what can\u2019t I get through the Internet anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas creep this year has been unprecedented. Decorations, music, ornament aisles, all up well before Thanksgiving. But even Black Friday creep has been apparent and, from recent memory, is also a first. Amazon had a full week of deals starting today. Several large retailers, like Walmart, are having sales on Thanksgiving day itself. Sears is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[120,170],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-consumerism","tag-shopping","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}