Nothing wrong with shopping, go ahead make a holiday out of it. Better than drawing straws to see who gets stoned.
The average small business retailer probably does 70% of their business between Black Friday and Dec Jan 1. I know my Bookstore does. I gross more from Late November to Jan 1st then I do the rest of the other 10 months.
Is that somehow a good thing?
Wouldn’t your life be simpler if you took-in 8% of your annual gross monthly January-November, and then 12% in December?