If you're like us and think the Christmas shopping season starts earlier every year, you're right -- and it started nearly 70 years ago. In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt made Thanksgiving a week earlier than it had been. Can you guess why? To lengthen the Christmas shopping season, of course!
For the whole story, here’s an article from the FDR library website.
Be sure to check out next week's issues of Smart Money Moves. We’ll stuff them full of super holiday shopping tips, as well as critical travel ideas to help you through the holiday madness!