I took a trip to Micheals today. Mostly because I had to get one measly thing. But also because I thought I'd check out the Christmas wares also. All the stores were already into Christmas before Halloween came and went, and because I'm of the firm belief that Christmas should not start until Halloween has played it's cards, I refused to even glance in the Christmassy direction of stores that decided to jump the gun a little too early this year. But see, herein potentially lies my mistake and I discovered this today. The Christmas isles at Micheals already look as if they've been ransacked! Apparently people are hot to trot to buy Christmas decor....especially those crafty people who frequent Micheals. And I was there (today) on a weekday. There were definately a few people there exercising their purchasing power(don't these people work????? and maybe they should be exercising something else other than their VISA cards). Anyway people are well into their Christmas decorations shopping if what I saw today has anything to do with it! That leaves me with a decision. Go crazy and buy decorations now, or tempt fate and wait until Dec. 1. Myself tells me to wait until Dec.1. Then you know that if it is sold out, it was just never meant to buy. Take that! Oh ye Christmas shoppers.