Christmas & New Years Hours

[sgoodin]

What is everyone planning on doing this year?

I was thinking the following:

Christmas Eve regular hours seeing it's Sunday and we close at 5:00pm anyway.

Closed Christmas of course

New Years Eve again it's a Sunday so regular hours close at 5:00pm

And then open New Years Day from 12-5pm

Sugestions / Thoughts from all you veterans please.

[dilworth]

sounds good......I am so happy the "Eve's" are on Sundays this year so I won't have to debate on hours to open....works out perfectly

[Marca]

We do regular hours on Xmas eve as well, but that's 10 pm.

We're closed on December 31st and January 1st though. Always have and never had a problem with it. Gives us time to do inventory etc.!

[JensSunQuest]

Closed straight across the broad.....I don't open on Sundays during the slow season so it works perfect...since I host a x-mas eve party no running around like crazy plenty of time to doll myself up:)~....Normally though I would open 11-4 on the eves and close on the days.... Perks of owning a business should be holidays off as no one can argue with the reason....... I am suppose to be putting up my x-mas decoration right now but I eat to much all week I am LAZY......

[sunsally]

Christmas eve is a great last-minute gift certificate day - open and prepared with little "stocking stuffer" packet gift bags too.

New Year's Eve is usually a good walk-in day -- great for Sunless and HP especially. They want to get their "glow on" for the evening.

New Year's Day is usually VERY slow. We may close that day, but at a minimum, we will delay opening until noon.

[dilworth]

you're right Christmas Eve is usually a very good sales day....I should clarify I am open 1-5 on Sundays regularly, so that should be sufficient for last minute shoppers

[JensSunQuest]

yah its usually a good sales day for me as well so SATURDAY since I am closed that Sunday... I am going to run a last min shopper special and announce it a few weeks advance..... A cute thing we do with gift cards/certificates is with $50 dollars or more spent we let the customer choose out of certain packets and then we take ribbon and tie the packet to the outside it adds alittle extra touch:)~

[hockey92]

not sure yet... was planning on going to Florida, but not sure now... usually stay open regular hours Christmas Eve cause we do a lot of gift cards.. Same on New Years Eve

[Rhino]

Since christmas is kind of on the wknd we will close dec 23-26. Eight years never any time off so now Im taking it anyway rather be on the ski slopes with my kids where memories are made everyone else gets to. If during wk we are usually open until 3pm on christmas eve cause that is when our town seems to roll up the sidewalks. Im enjoying this year, since Im probably gonna be done after the busy season of 07 anyway. Have a super holiday season Were gonna

[tnannie]

Originally Posted by dilworth

sounds good......I am so happy the "Eve's" are on Sundays this year so I won't have to debate on hours to open....works out perfectly

LOL! I was just thinking the same thing! :)