Be Sure To Watch Out For Those Holiday Scams!

With the Christmas season upon us there is an online article that is listing some of the top holiday scams that are out this season.

Of course some of them include scams that appear all year round including phony work at home scams, government grant scams and scams that try to steal a person's password.

But there are a number of scams that involve the holiday season as well including phony charity schemes and holiday sites that are specifically created for phishing purposes.

So be on the lookout and beware!

You can read the article by clicking here.

A Bit Of History!

On this date:

• In Ireland, the 8th of December has always been the day that busy farmers took off work to do their Christmas shopping. The towns would all be bustling with country people, who stood out by their dress and accents. Whole families descended on Cork City and it was the day that the rest of the townspeople would stay at home, and let the country folk get on with their business. Of course, it never did seem to happen that way because watching everything that was going on came to be a favorite pasttime!
  
  
  
  This whole tradition seemed to have been created because for the many that traveled the long miles into the town on that day, it really was their only chance to get the presents and make sure that Santa would visit their children on the 25th December.

When Do I Start Putting Up Christmas Decorations?

I like to wait well after Thanksgiving (but before December 1st) before I start putting up Christmas decorations. I like to be able to fully enjoy Thanksgiving and give it all its "props"!