Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christmas Bonuses and 9 More Shopping Days Until Christmas


Clock ticks down, the sands of time spinning around as the Christmas season is really going to get the better of us. Perhaps you are about ready to go out to finally wrap up that Christmas shopping and won’t be stumbling upon this until you get back, or perhaps you will do it this weekend. Regardless we have 10 more days until Christmas, which means approximately 9 more shopping days until Christmas and that is counting today.



You know, it did strike me that some people tend to wait and hope for some kind of holiday bonus, so they don’t have to stretch their own funds so think. For those of you who might be laughing about the absolute hilarious nature of receiving a holiday bonus, in this day and age, you have in fact proved my point.

Perhaps you have gotten holiday bonuses every year at your job, but do remember that if the current economic climate has taught us anything, that would be the fact that the only thing is for sure, is nothing is for sure. Businesses close, workers get fired, wages get sliced, everything turns around and a company who gives out that holiday bonus might decide, this is an easy expense to cut and hack.

Money that you don’t have currently in your pocket, wallet, bank account, wherever, is not money that you can count on. Do not hang your hat on the possibility of receiving any kind of holiday bonus. You’d be setting yourself up for a cold and harsh Christmas season. You might be surprised, but I think that there is trouble if you hadn’t budgeted your money well enough and you still plan on doing Christmas shopping.

Today is December 15th 2011. Do you know where your Christmas gifts are? Have you purchased them? Time is running dry and the postal service is entering crunch time. You might have to do two day shipping or overnight shipping, which we should note does not mean you receive your items on time. Hopefully the FedEx truck will be arriving in your neighborhood.

Ten more days until the big day but only nine more days of Christmas shopping left. Tick, tock, tick tock.

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