Well, over the years from my purchasing experience, I buy my high dollar items in the month of August, thats when all your big chain stores are reducing their inventory to get in the next years model..I saved over 500 dollars on my Plasma TV, caus I purchased in August, the same 52" was 999 in March, in August it was 469.00.. The same can be done with vehicles Aug/Sept the dealers are bringing in the next years inventory and trying to give away the current years inventory. Housing, purchase a home around Christmas, the market goes stale from Thanksgiving thru the New Year, then you have weather to worry with, who wants to look at homes with a foot of snow on the ground..But you have desperate realtors and home owners that want that sale and reduce the heck out of their selling price.