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Originally Posted by Hitch
I am contemplating my planned Winter Break.
We typically close, for what we call the "Winter Downtime" from noon on 12/24 (this has sometimes been 2:00 a.m. on the 25th, btw), through the morning of 1/3. We've always taken an extra day, because I think we earn it, being open 6/days/week the rest of the year. Almost no one takes vacations, etc.
This year, due to how the holiday(s) are falling, I'm thinking...what the hell. I'm considering closing noon on the 22nd, (Saturday) as the 24th is a Monday; and instead of coming back to work on the 3rd, which is a Thursday, not reopening until the morning of the 7th (a Monday). It would give me two entire weeks away from work, and the day-to-day grind. It would allow my folks to at least each take a full week off, too (as they don't have paid vacations; I wish I could, but...not enough dough for that).
I dunno, maybe it's a fantasy, but for the next two weeks, that seems like SUCH a great idea.... 
Hitch |
I would go for the two weeks.
Christmas is always a busy period for us, so no closing for a long time. But I did manage to talk my father in not opening on the Sunday and Monday before Christmas. He always wants that, but I'm the one womaning the store; on Sunday he has the annual Christmas billiard tournament at his club and on the Monday he's always busy running errands. It's only worth it to open the store because I got paid half of my normal salary. There aren't that many customers, since we don't sell a lot of Christmassy stuff. I spend those two days working my butt off dealing with shipments that came in earlier that week (most of our supplier are closed between Christmas and New Year) This year I refused to be paid half, my father looked at the numbers of previous years and came to the conclusion we wouldn't lose out much if we didn't open the store.
Which means four days off, then three days of working, followed by another three days off. And after that it's only a couple of weeks until my reading retreat.