Christmas Sales Observation

It seems to be the new trend for retails in the past few years to do post-Christmas sales BEFORE Christmas now. 

I'm not complaining, as much as I like a bargain I don't like them enough to get up early on boxing day and fight everyone else to find a good deal. I never think to go online, quite frankly, Christmas is the ONLY time where I can actually see my family thanks to my job so I don't like to waste a minute of valuable mother-following time. 

However, recently things have started to go in my favour. Retailers seem to be throwing sales through November to January which of course is helpful for those of us who see Christmas as a massive hole in the pocket but not nice for those who are slow to realise the new trend and end up missing out come boxing day!

I seem to remember last year an article in the Daily Mail about how some shoppers were outraged because there was pretty much nothing left after shoppers had cleared out the stores BEFORE Christmas. 

Personally, I don't see the issue. How can anyone not want to space out the shopping? I LOVE buying things and then bringing them home and showing my other half everything I bought even if he doesn't quite feel the same enthusiasm! So spacing it out more means more show and tell. I suppose it's never bothered me because I don't have common clothes sizes, I'm not particularly keen on what's hot to wear and I never have money after Christmas anyway.

And if Christmas can be less dear, what's the issue?