It’ Time For The Holidays

Did you know it was the holiday season? Have you planned on sending anyone something by mail? If by chance you didn’t know it was the holiday season the U. S. Postal Service wanted to send everyone a pamphlet that will inform you on great ways to save this year when sending...

US online sales up 15.4% to $36.4bn this holiday season

A double-digit growth has been witnessed in the online sales in six out of seven weeks since 31 October. A MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse report has found that online shopping in the US rose 15.4% to $36.4bn for the holiday season. The report also showed that a...

New Year' Eve Party Ideas: Top Seven Ways To Spend NY's On Budget

As people are trying to cope with the realities of downsized economy, expensive club parties and restaurants on New Year's Eve are beyond most people's reach, so people are looking for cheaper New Year's eve party...

Santas Want H1N1 Vaccine Priority for Christmas Season

Department-Store Santas want priority access to the H1N1 vaccine. The men who portray Santa Claus at shopping centers, parades and special events argue that they should be fast-tracked for the Swine Flu vaccine...

Christmas google searches more spiritual this year

This holiday season more people went online to look for terms like “spirit” and “letter,” rather than “shopping.” This is in contrast to 2007, when top keyword searches all had to do with gift-buying and...

Recession-Themed Christmas Cards a Good Sale This Holiday Season

If you think everything there was to invent in Christmas shopping has already been invented, think again. A New York entrepreneur Andrew Shaffer has discovered an unlikely Christmas shopping market niche. He is...

The Holiday Season Brings Food Anxieties To The Fore

December first, the start of the rounds of Christmas parties and visiting which is usually accompanied with high calorie food and drink.  For many of us, we try and usually fail to follow the healthy eating guidelines to avoid gaining excess poundage.  For those...

Tips for Eating Green this Holiday Season

I know that this holiday season, actually any holiday season, really actually anytime that involves time off, I love to share food with friends and family. And here I've found some helpful tips for lowering the...

Best Buy cites 'seismic changes' in consumer behavior

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the predictions of a worst case scenario are now ever more likely.  Following an unprecedented financial crisis we are now seeing an unprecedented crisis in retail.""Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior...

Fewer office parties planned for this year's holiday season due to financial ...

Love it or hate it but the amount of holiday season partying in offices throughout North America is going to dwindle this year. In the wake of the financial crisis, many companies are cutting on office party...

Chaos in the World and the Jewish New Year Begins a New Life Cycle.

The holiday season is upon us in Israel. There is a light headedness that appears in the air as if everyone I see is walking just a few inches off the ground. There is an openness of spirit that I sense in the...

The Shoppers are Shopping!

For the last couple of years it was plastered on news sources both mainstream and new that the Christmas shopping season was DOA. Accompanying these stories were warnings of doom for our economy and a generally...

As holiday shopping season begins, UG examining payday loan shops

Americans look forward to the holiday season not only for receiving gifts but also the feeling that goes along with giving.   But that giving is getting more and more expensive every year. After the...

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