holidays

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Unless you deliver packages for a living.

Yes, all of our online shopping brings in big bucks for FedEx, UPS, DHL, and the US Postal Service. But the employees at those places are under a mountain of work, buried in packages, and it's hardly a season to be jolly. More likely, tis the season to have sore muscles, a headache, and feel run over by the delivery truck each day. FedEx says more than 19 million packages were shipped on Monday. Here they come.

How late has your mail been lately? Don't be mad at the carrier - he or she is drowning in letters, boxes, and catalogs, and after looking at all the addresses, we're lucky his or her vision still works well enough to find our houses.

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People everywhere are also trying to find some ways to earn extra cash to buy Christmas presents this year. Well, it just so happens that Christmas season is the busiest season for retailers everywhere. Between Black Friday and all the Christmas shopping, retailers are going out of their way to hire help for the holidays. So if you're looking to earn a little extra cash for the holidays, here is a list of the companies hiring the most for this holiday season.

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For years Oprah Winfery wowed her audience during her holiday special "Oprah's Favorite Things" where she revealed what her favorite thing were. These things ranged from cookie dough and salsa to bath towels to books and even Volkswagen's one year. What was special about these shows was that every audience member at the taping would take home a set of all of Oprah's favorite things and that would send her audience into a frenzy where they experienced and ultimate high!

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I think I saw the first big, full-blown display of Christmas trees and snow globes and dancing elves in a store around September 15th. That's pure madness! But after I stopped fighting it in my head, I let my excited 4-year old drag me into that section of the store and we both picked up a snow globe and shook it

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Last weekend we made our weekly trip to Walmart on S. Broadway in Tyler, and as I like to say, gave them my donation for the week, because we're ALWAYS in there!  Anyways, as I was walking toward the toy section to the left side of the building what did I see, about 20 inflatable Christmas yard decorations hanging out near the ceiling doing their attention grabbing thing.

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There’s something about the holiday season that often makes us all a little nostalgic. And it’s not just the result of carefully-crafted marketing by retailers — psychological experts say that wistful feeling has an actual purpose.

Krystine Batcho, a professor of psychology at Le Moyne College in New York, says nostalgia helps us feel connected to one another and can even ease pain during a crisis.

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It’s perfectly normal to mark the holidays with a decoration or two. But the Rieken family in Texas takes their celebration of the season to the extreme by cramming over 200 trees into their home. Clark Griswold of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ fame would be proud!

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Since a new survey shows more than a third of Americans have already finished their holiday buying, analysts say retailers need to cut prices to the bone if they want people to keep shopping.

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Struggling to decide what to buy for a child this holiday season? Then check out this collection of unique holiday gifts for kids of all ages courtesy of ‘The Early Show.’

Gift ideas include the Scruble Cube, a game that combines the Rubik’s Cube with Scrabble, dolls from the StinkyKids collection, chopsticks for kids with animal toppers and a device that makes rainbows.

Check out some neat holiday gift items for youngsters below. 

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It's supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year" right? Just now I was snapped at by my loving mother to help her in the kitchen. Why does everyone get so stressed out over this stuff? Shouldn't everyone be enjoying their day off of work and each others company. So in h

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The Band Perry put on an amazing, flawless performance at the American Music Awards this past Sunday.  It appears as if they're going full steam into the holidays now.

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Once the Thanksgiving dinner has been served and eaten, what do you do with the family after the meal?

I've come up with 5 great games that will get you interacting with your family! Have fun!