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(127,330 posts)so they have the "back to the dorm" sales with the sheets/comforters, desk lamps, of course the tech (laptops), etc. Then you have the rest of the schools usually starting that last week of August or first week of September after Labor Day. I already heard some business reports along the lines of parents "averaging" about $200 per child for these items (including clothes/shoes and all the pens/pencils/binders/backpacks, etc).
And yeah, the rest of the world is in pretty rough shape - partly due to not being "energy independent" in the middle of this Russia/Ukraine war, and then the commodities that are best grown in certain parts of the world that are not only getting impacted by that war too, but by the weather.
We are very fortunate here were (outside of the obvious microchip issue, which really shouldn't be an issue), we can grow and raise pretty much anything in the world (including some very tropical stuff) as well as having access to our own energy sources.
And LOL @ that dream!!!
As they say, even when you sleep, your brain is still trying to process and file away stuff and that was a big data file that needed to be sorted and filed!
It's like that beer ad - "Tastes great! No, less filling!" but instead "That was the stocks! No, that was the jobs!"