'Til you drop!

Today I'm celebrating Cyber Monday!

Have you yet dropped from exhaustion from your busy shopping days? Then, today's holiday was likely created just for you! Just as the Friday following Thanksgiving is supposedly the busiest shopping day of the year (for the "brick and mortar" retailers), the Monday after Thanksgiving has become known as Cyber Monday, supposedly the busiest online shopping day of the year. However, it's been found that today is typically not the biggest online shopping day of the year, but historically ranks about the 12th busiest e-commerce day of the year. Cyber Monday was actually coined by a retailers association as a promotional scheme, as reported by BusinessWeek in 2005. There's debate about the actual busiest online shopping day. However, many retailers are likely springing into the promotion and offering online deals for those who have already "shopped 'til they've dropped" and landed at their computers. So, if you still have items on your shopping list from Black Friday and did not successfully complete your list on that Buy Everything Day or if you instead celebrated Buy Nothing Day and now you're in a bind, then today on Cyber Monday you may also be celebrating Shopping Reminder Day.

Here's just a little reminder of some things to think about, in case you've not yet completed your shopping:

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald
  
• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
  
• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
  
• The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
  
• May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
  
• A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown
  
• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh
  

However, if you insist on hitting the streets or the online stores, think about the following:

• To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White
  
• Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after. ~Joyce Brothers
  
• The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes
  
• In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ~American Saying
  
• Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown
  
• Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
  

What's left on your shopping list? a diamond ring? a gift or money card? Here's a song by The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" that may be humorous as you think about your shopping list this season.

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