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Unexplained Mysteries

Dec 31st 2008Jeremy MyersBible Study

Here is one of the greatest mysteries of life: Why do stores stop selling seasonal items once the season arrives that these items are for?

I am new to New York, and so don’t have any of the items that living and driving in New York require – like sand, salt, shovels, sleds, gloves, coats, hats, snowpants (for the kids), etc.

I went to numerous stores today to try to find all of the above, and every store gave me the same answer, “Oh, we stopped selling those things back in September.” In Walmart, I went to the “Seasonal” section, and the employees were stocking the shelves with coolers, lawn chairs, and beach balls! It’s 20 degrees and snowing today! We still have at least three months of winter left, and then a few months of spring before anybody will be using coolers and beach balls!

Am I really the only person in the United States who wants to buy snow shovels and ice salt in December and January when it is icy and snowing? In our procrastinating society, I have never understood why stores don’t carry season items all the way through the season that the items are for. Or at least half way through. It is one of life’s unexplained mysteries to me.

So help me out. Honestly, do any of you actually buy your snow shovels in September and your beach balls in January?

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4 Responses to “Unexplained Mysteries”

  1. Steve Dehner on 01 Jan 2009 at 1:23 pm #

    Jeremy,
    This is why I never end up with the camping stuff I need, at the time that I realize I need it.

    What can I say? It’s an absurdist Orwellian bedlam. It’s meant, on higher plane, to drive you to your knees.

    One thing you must avoid at all costs: trying t make sense of it. You can’t – it’s retail.

  2. Peter Kirk on 01 Jan 2009 at 1:56 pm #

    I heard today that shops here in England have started trying to sell summer clothes largely because they have been trying to sell winter clothes for months but no one is buying. Most years this is when they sell off the leftover winter clothes cheaply. So maybe you should blame the recession for yet another stupidity.

  3. Parke on 01 Jan 2009 at 11:55 pm #

    Ha, yeah they’re already selling Valentine’s candy where my folks live here in Pennsylvania. Pretty crazy, eh?

  4. David Annabell on 11 Jan 2009 at 4:46 pm #

    I buy beach stuff in January. That’s when it’s summer, here in New Zealand!

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