Can you believe that they are all ready starting to put Christmas items for the up and coming holiday season? It is still summer for goodness sake. Soon they will all be playing Christmas music, arg……I’m thinking that the stores are really freaking out about the economy issues that aren’t lightening up any time soon and how it will affect sales again this year so they are going squeeze what they can and when they can out of us all.

Last year Wal-Mart was basically the only one that made a decent profit for the 2009 Christmas/Hanukkah gift giving season. I know that I’m cutting back big time. I’m not even going to send out any Christmas cards. Stamps are at 42 cents a piece now and that is just crazy. Online Christmas are the way to go this year, I can tell you that.