Monthly Archives: April 2013

Holidays (Easter) Under Control

I have a seminar that I started delivering two years ago titled “Holidays Under Control.”  The reason why I developed this seminar was because when I was teaching my other programs, people would always start talking about how incredibly stressful the holiday season is and how much more money they spent during the holiday season than at other times of the year.

Well, when people talk about the holiday season, they usually mean from Thanksgiving until the New Year – and that is the time frame on which my seminar primarily focuses.  However, this last weekend, the Easter Bunny made his annual visit.  My wife and I felt compelled to make the basket and fill it with goodies – and our daughter actually expected the Easter Bunny to appear and bring her some goodies.  She didn’t have a list prepared like she did at Christmas, but she had expectations nonetheless.

So, while I don’t typically include the Easter holiday in my seminar, I thought I’d go ahead and look up some statistics on Easter spending in the U.S. According to Statistic Brain (http://www.statisticbrain.com/easter-statistics/), we dropped about $14.6 Billion on Easter this year, of course only $2.6 Billion of that was on candy.  Yeah, $2.6 Billion on candy (turns out that’s 120 million pounds of candy).

So I have three questions for you, my friend:

1. Do you feel compelled to spend money at Easter the same way you do during the fall/winter holidays?

2. Do you feel like there are a lot of expectations around spending during the Easter holiday?

3. Does Easter make the “stress” in your life go up at all?

 

Does Easter stress you out?

Does Easter stress you out?