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Turtleneck Posted Thu 03 Jul, 2008 4:40 PM |
| For non-USA people--When you have a minor holiday (not biggies like Christmas or Easter), are you made to feel by advertisers that you should be painting your house, spending all day at a home improvement store, buying mattresses at Deep! Discount! Prices!, etc.; either work, work, work, or shop, shop, shop your entire holiday weekend? Stores just never close anymore, for anything. |
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spid Posted Thu 03 Jul, 2008 5:01 PM |
| yep that just about sums it up |
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Peewee Posted Thu 03 Jul, 2008 5:09 PM |
| It's the same everywhere and it cracks me up! So annoying. It's all about SPENDING SPENDING SPENDING! Maybe we just want to chill! grrr |
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Turtleneck Posted Thu 03 Jul, 2008 5:16 PM |
| I was just wondering because when my mom was living in Germany, it seemed like the stores were closed a lot. If it was evening and you ran out of milk--too bad. Sunday? Out of luck. I thought it was kind of nice that there were times when there was really nothing to do other than take a walk in a park or something. That was almost (gulp) 15 years ago, though. |
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