Holiday shopping might be “shockingly good”, but I don’t personally know anyone who is going to be stepping up their holiday spending over last year.
What I have heard is that EVERYONE will be cutting back bigtime.
LLS
I am. I went Galt after the 08 election. Now have resored confidence that the US will, shortly, be back on the right track.
Everyone I know is not ‘doing’ Christmas presents this year. Token gifts for the little ones is about it.
Less for me...we old geezers didn’t get a COLA raise this year or next...prices for food has risen, so belts here on spending are tightened even more. I picked the grandsons/daughters up some T-shirts off the mark down rack at Penny’s for next to nothing and that is their Christmas from grandma this year. Adult kids asked us not to buy them presents 2 years ago.