Deals! Deals! Deals! Black Friday has come and gone. Today is online Monday, the online shopping equivalent of Black Friday in the US. Black Friday in the US is not unlike our Boxing Day in Canada – the biggest sales day of the year for retail. Deals to be had that you don’t get any other time.
As I listened to the news on Thursday morning, one person was quoted as saying they skipped Thanksgiving family dinner so they could camp out overnight for the deals. Another said they had an early dinner (3:00pm) to do the same. What I hear is, “Sorry family and friends, there’s a sale on and I don’t have time to rest from the crazed pace of life and spend time with you.”
I don’t know about you, but life is busy enough that I don’t need to use what’s intended to be relaxed family time to run around shopping to save some money. All this stuff wears out. So do relationships when not properly maintained and nurtured. What’s more important to you?
What percentage of these purchases are needs? I really feel like something is going terribly wrong when we ditch our relationships for a sale so we can buy something for the people we no longer have time to spend with.
Get a grip people! When you get to the end of the rat race, you won’t care about what you have or had but about who is standing around you loving and caring (about more than their inheritance).
Please take a step back this Christmas and use your down time wisely to build into your life and others’ what counts most.
That’s my rant for the day.
