Target stores are open until 10 pm on Christmas Eve?

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53. My Mom had no Christmas money until 5pm 12/24.

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If you have ANY authority over low-income workers, PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL 5 PM CHRISTMAS EVE TO GIVE CHRISTMAS BONUSES! You have no idea what a pandemonium this creates! She would rush to get it all DONE that night! She had to get home first, of course, about 40-50 minutes by subway and bus. Most of our Christmas came from a couple of little stores near us. There was this thing called layaway, and she took full advantage of that. Presents had been selected and put on layaway earlier. Still, she had to make sure she got to the store in time to get them out of layaway. Then, that was when we got our allowances, so often that was when we could buy presents. Then we had to get some groceries in. Sometimes we couldn't afford a tree until then, and those were real nightmare evenings. My three hot-tempered siblings would all throw tantrums over something or other. I imagine I was probably whining all evening, as that was my particular misbehavior. Then we had to wrap the presents, and somehow we had to get some kind of supper in there. She would be up past midnight, desperately working and working.