Friday / Weekend Open Line


This is the last full weekend before Christmas, we hope you’re ready for the holidays.  If you still have more gifts, please take a look at our Holiday Shopping Guide. If your business would like to add your special please feel free to send us your discount and we’ll list your ad for no charge. 

We have also received a great suggestion to ask for your Christmas decoration pictures, be they your own at home, your business, or one that you pass by and feel should be shared.  We’d love to have a gallery showcasing the beauty you guys have created.

If you would like to submit your free holiday shopping ad, or to send us Christmas decoration pictures, email us at submit@homeinhenderson.com

Be careful with your shopping however.  Reports indicate

For every dollar stores take in this holiday season, they’ll have to give back 9.9 cents in returns, up from 9.8 last year, according to the National Retail Federation’s survey of 110 retailers. In better economic times, it’s about 7 cents.

Consumer electronics in particular are being returned at a rapid clip. Stores and manufacturers are expected to spend $17 billion re-boxing, repairing, restocking and reselling electronics this year, up 21 percent from four years ago.  (read more)

The reason cited is people snatching up bargains, then realizing they spent too much money and need that money back to pay needed expenses.

The Raleigh – Cary and Durham – Chapel Hill metros have taken up 2 spots in the US News list of the top 10 Most Educated US Cities.  Where do you think Henderson would fall on such a list?  (read more)

Discuss and more on the Weekend Open Lines!