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The Holiday Season is Nigh
Holiday stroll is around the corner, Festival of Lights on Nov. 25. And early Thanksgiving will mean a longer Christmas shopping season.
Ah, have you got that Halloween candy rationed out for the next three months, and all the costumes put away? Good.
Holiday Stroll is Nov. 9 in downtown Los Altos. The Festival of Lights is scheduled for Nov. 25.
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Some residents and businesses will start stringing up the Christmas lights as soon as the Halloween decorations come down, but hardcore shoppers know when their dream season begins.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the accepted if unofficial start time of the Christmas rush. It's a huge day for retailers but only the first of a roughly month-long extravaganza.
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And thanks to Abe Lincoln, who decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed into law that it should fall on the fourth Thursday in November, and Pope Gregory XIII, who blessed the calendar we use by papal bull, 2012 has the longest possible shopping season.
To explain: With Nov. 1 falling on Thursday, the fourth Thursday and Thanksgiving, Nov. 22, couldn't fall any sooner. And that means there is more time—the most time any year can provide—for shoppers to shop and businesses to reap bounty.
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