By Jeremy Myers Filed Under Bible Study Written on December 31, 2008

Unexplained Mysteries

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?

Check out these related posts on Scripture, Theology, and Church:

I am the 1%... and so are you

Does Jesus Love Terrorists?

Arguments Against Inerrancy

Human Trafficking Must Stop

Is the Pledge of Allegiance Idolatry?

Want to read more about Bible and Theology? Try one of these:

http://thegiftandtheprize.blogspot.com Steve Dehner

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.
http://www.gentlewisdom.org.uk/ Peter Kirk

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.
Parke

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

I buy beach stuff in January. That’s when it’s summer, here in New Zealand!
http://Question Vaughn Bender

Hey Jeremy

Surprise, come to Canada, we had almost no snow this year and Stores here still have them cause nobody bought them in Nov, Dec. It looks weird seeing all the snow blowers and shovels out still when we have no snow. Lots of sales though, get a snow blower cheap, really cheap. And lots of deicing salt too.

And spring is almost here too.. all plus temps from now on.

Vaughn

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

I love Canada. Maybe I will move…

http://Question Vaughn Bender

Hey

would love to have you as a Neighbor.. and a good friend!!

Enjoy a good discussion and study over a Tim Hortons coffee )

cheers..

Sincerely

Vaughn