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Kathy Harris:
Only if you’re insane! It’s really crowded. You can get some good deals, but it’s going to be a very stressful experience - that’s my humble opinion.

Kathy Harris, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts…

If you’re at all able to go shopping during the week - in the early morning hours you’re going to miss most of the traffic, and you’re going to have a much more pleasurable experience. That’s the time to go, I’m telling you, because everybody else is at work.

And some good gift ideas for those who are hard to shop for…

Classic movie posters (if you can figure out their favorite movie), their favorite rock group. You can get a concert poster, a movie poster. You have it framed. A lot of times these online sites like art.com will do it for you, and that way you can get a really personalized gift that they will love.

If you have mother who has everything, take a picture of yourself with your siblings. Put it in a nice frame, and I promise you she’ll cry on Christmas morning.

A lot of people like to get the handmade items, so a neat trick that people are starting to do is - they’ll take all of the dry ingredients for cookies, let’s say, put it in the mason jar and put a label on the outside giving the directions for adding the wet ingredients and the cooking time. And that way you’re giving a sort of homemade gift to someone. They can make fresh baked cookies without much effort, and they’ll be thinking of you when they’re eating the hot, steamy cookies.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net,I’m Mike Carruthers, and that’s Something You Should Know.