POST-TURKEY DAY greetings to you and your favorite drumstick, along with post-Black and Plaid Friday salutations, giving us Small Business Saturday today, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.
Makes you wonder: isn’t there something for tomorrow, like Shopping Sanity Sunday?
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