Actually, there has been a shift. I think it was the News Hour I was listening to last night where they were saying that the day after Thanksgiving now amounts to 10% of the sales, that the week prior to christmas itself now takes in 25% of the gross for holiday shopping.

I had to buy a bag of ice on my way to a friend's house for our traditional day-after-Thanksgiving-Thanksgiving dinner. If I'd known about this spending boycott I'd have used my own icemaker and a few ice trays to generate enough to take over. Oh, well. . . maybe I can avoid doing any shopping today instead. Just like we shift Thanksgiving, we can shift that observance as well. :)

SRS