I went to the grocery store today, and for a second, I felt dizzy, as if I had stepped through a time warp. I could have sworn Christmas was just a few days ago, that the new year hadn’t even started, but this is what I saw:
Valentine’s Day? Already? Tell me it isn’t so!
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Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Unfinished, Madame ZeeZee’s Nightmare, Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Connect with Pat on Google+. Like Pat on Facebook.
December 29, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Yeah, I’ll be very surprised if I don’t see a heart-shaped box by the end of next week (and I don’t mean the Joe Hill novel of the same name).
December 29, 2017 at 6:54 pm
LOL those of us who make cards for retail, have already been working on spring season, Valentine, Easter, May day, etc. hearts are for anytime of the year.. marketing has them saying I love you… =^_^=
December 29, 2017 at 7:16 pm
That’s nothing.
Would you believe that on Boxing Day here in Sydney Australia HOT CROSS BUNS AND EASTER GOODIES WENT ON SALE!!!
Absolutely disgusting
January 1, 2018 at 4:26 am
Commercialism! Greed! Soon we’ll be hearing the stores didn’t do too well for Xmas. They’ll blame it on consumers shopping online