christmas shopping

With the Christmas shopping season underway one place you should stop on by for stocking stuffers and gifts is the upcoming Holiday Made in Monmouth event.

Perhaps traditions are similar and slightly different in your house at Christmastime and on the big day itself, and if they are, that's okay, but if things need to change for one reason or another, it's important to help your kids understand why a change is needed.

One of the reasons the age old expression "if it's too good to be true, then it is" still lives on in society is because how often it rings true -- and not in a good way, certainly.

Would you rather get a gift that is an experience or a thing? The trend this holiday season is to give an experience (which makes perfect sense post COVID) so I wanted to give you guys some fantastic ideas that you may not have known were even available in New Jersey!

It's a Christmas miracle - Toys "R" Us will be opening in NJ tomorrow!

I chose the photo above for this article for a reason. I think that a lot of us have made that very face while trying to accomplish our holiday shopping around Ocean County.

To show how social media can lead to rumors being overblown in this day and age, earlier Saturday afternoon a rumor started to spread across local Facebook users and groups of the Ocean County Mall being evacuated. The rumors only had a tiny grain of truth to them.

That photo was taken yesterday. October 28th. Three days before Halloween. But to retailers, "three days before Halloween" is just another way of saying "three days closer to Christmas".

Wait a second...I think I'm getting stressed just from writing and reading that.

It may only be August, but you may have noticed holiday displays and deals are already hitting the stores.