The holidays are a hard time. You can go anywhere and read articles about how hard it is for people to be alone around the holidays.

Dinner is a good place for conversation, but it also has a beginning and the end. If it's not going well, you just have to get through the meal. Don't order dessert. This year, having it be on a Tuesday night, just say you have something to do the next day, that you have an early morning.

People are very desperate this time of year right after the holidays when they may not have realized how much they have spent. But you want to make sure that where you turn is actually helping you and not putting you further in debt.

The high holidays are the biggest time of the year. You're with your entire community people who don't necessarily come to Shabbat services come for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. My mom always said it was nice to have something new for a fresh start to the year.

The high holidays are the biggest time of the year, ... You're with your entire community people who don't necessarily come to Shabbat services come for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. My mom always said it was nice to have something new for a fresh start to the year.

This will give people plenty of time to take the trees home so they can enjoy them for the holidays.