I don't know what it is, but always around the holiday season I get bombarded with sale fliers and emails. the next thing I know for some reason I find the need to buy all this crap I don't really need.
Being busy with the holidays, I don't buy them, but after everything has calmed down (like now), I go to buy something and it's twice as much now since the sales are over! I often think, if you'd run the sale prices more often, is probably be more willing to buy a lot of useless shit I don't need. Anyone else agree?
Example - I didn't even know an "iPad pro" existed until a few weeks ago. I found one then for $700 and now they're almost $900. I mean, it would look great next to my iPad and iPad mini that I never use!
My ex wife used to buy stuff we didn't need just because it was on sale and then put it on a credit card with a 15-21% interest rate. Just one of the things that led to our divorce.