I have been seeing Christmas decorations in stores for about a month. Wow! I've never understood pushing the envelope. Maybe next year they will put the decorations out before Labor Day!
On another note with the Holidays come the requests for the charities for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. This is where I find a weakness. I know that there are a lot of people out of work or underemployed. A lot of families where the income is way down from where it used to be.
There are a lot of charities out there. some of them are very good spending a large part of their income taking care of their charitable mission. There are others that will use most of the income for overhead and spend very little on the charitable mission. Due your job, make sure the charity you are contributing to is on the up and up. The BBB does keep tabs on them.
I did notice a store with a sign we would deck our halls after Thanksgiving. I give them a compliment.
