The Wall Street Journal (Oct 25, 2010) says grandparents are raining money on their grandkids—recession or not.
In 2009 (OK, not really as bad yet) they spent $52 billion. This according to Grandparents.com.
Yes, the old…duffers...whoa, wait, the average age to become a grandparent is 50!
Half of all grandparents have contributed to their grandkids’ education.
Grandparents are 26% of movie audiences.
All four Rolling Stones are grandparents.
OK—that one didn’t have to be in there.
The one thing my own child has not done is bring me a grandchild—under the circumstances, this is fine.
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I keep noticing that other people are not in a recession, apparently. I've seen more Halloween decorations on houses - orange lights, great display pieces of ghosts, goblins, ghouls and whatevers; one house made the Portsmouth Herald front page by turning the barn out back into a huge chamber of "delightful" horrors. Maybe folks aren't earning money, but they sure are spending it - hand over fist!
I have heard that about back east. We have decorations up--we love our Halloween. The giant spider webs are 10 yrs old and ratty. We found the skeleton in the trash some yrs ago. A neighbor gave us her tombstones.
We are agonizing over where to get affordable candy, though. The Dollar Store--? Or is this poison Chinese rejects or something? I said to my kid (she's 28), I need to get bad candy so you won't eat it. She said, "I will eat bad candy."
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