And because many in the hospitality business spend the holidays away from their own families to be at work and share in a collective resentment of the season.
It's a good idea to sort out how you're going to spend the Christmas holidays before the event.
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The amount you spend during the holidays is dictated by the available balance on your cards.
The skinny on our Nov. 19-22 2010 poll is that 46% of U.S. adults say they plan to spend less on the holidays this year than they did in 2009, and only 6% say they will spend more.
Retailers are quite possibly going to be in for a severe letdown this holiday season, as a majority of female consumers have indicated that they intend to spend less on the holidays in 2012 than they did in 2011.
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It remains third on the list of holidays when consumers spend the most (behind Christmas and Valentine's Day).
The two ships will spend this summer operating European cruise holidays to the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Norwegian Fjords.
And Dubai is determined to be the place where they spend their holidays.
Then there's the cultural reality that, regardless of the economic situation, people spend money on holidays even if it means cutting back elsewhere.
Pupils in England should spend more hours at school each day and have shorter holidays, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has argued.
Norway's agriculture minister, Lars Sponheim, tried to shame his compatriots into shopping at home by snootily disparaging them as Harries, the kind of folk who wear track-suits and spend their holidays in caravans.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has told ministers to spend their holidays in France.
The holidays were especially difficult for our family because we would always spend them together.
Friends of the Earth wants people to think about spending their holidays closer to home, to reduce the length of time they spend in the air.
But the holidays force us to either return to painful family interactions or to fully own our isolation and spend the season alone.
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