Lowe's has Christmas decorations out already. They've crossed the Halloween blockade.
From the pumpkin to turkey autumn shall be free
Free, free October!
Free free free November!
After working retail for the holiday season as a younger person, and seeing how that started in October...then working in the beer industry, watching seasonal creep pushing those beer releases ever earlier (combined with the ramp up and logistics meaning that we were in full on "get ready for Oktoberfest" mode by mid-April...
I think I was just totally burnt out of any capacity for seasonal creep outrage a decade ago.
I saw a Christmas display while grocery shopping this week. Didn't even register as odd, let alone annoying. Which is saying something, coming from me, who tends to treat getting annoyed about random shit as a sort of relaxing pastime.
It's been like that for years in the UK where Halloween isn't such a big thing. It's usually the last week of August for most shops to start getting stuff out.
All Out For Autumn
November? My local Home Depot was selling Christmas decorations on September 29th. There should be a law...
If I ever become the ruler of the world, I'm making a law that every month gets one major holiday, and that holiday shall be confined to that month.
That's 13 major holidays, plus New Years (and Leap Day) since I'd also be forcing everyone to use a better calendar.
That's late. Ours had shit in August
November? I went into Walmart on September 29 and the seasonal section was plastered with Christmas trees and other decorations.
You should see some shops in Australia, they decide to put up a small display for "Christmas in July" then the next thing you know there's no other holidays to protect that display from just becoming a growing Christmas display.... in August!
And it's so lazy because it's still the Christmas in July display at the core, with the actual December Christmas merch expanding out from the it, so there's ugly Christmas sweaters, roasts, and snow men decorations in the the middle, and board shorts, barbecues, thongs* and white boomers* after that.
(thongs are flip flops/sandals, white boomers are albino kangaroos, it's what Santa uses to pull the rusted out ute across the sand because he leaves the reindeer and sleigh for the northern hemisphere.....Australian Christmas is weird)
Yea, they bliz krieged into September!
Christmas decorations have been out since mid-September.
I fucking hate this. #TAKE BACK AUTUMN
In New Zealand, they put out the Christmas decorations as early as Spring.
Not I if you've got a flamethrower!
The shitty thing is that they take down the Halloween decorations to put them up like excuse me I fuckin need those - disposable stuff gets bought the month of, not 3 months out.I throw a Halloween party but I don't have room to put all that consumable stuff around my apartment for months in advance.
Christmas starts in August. It's disgusting. Whenever I point these things out everyone thinks I hate Christmas. I really don't. Christmas joy can't last half a year it's unreasonable. To counter it i only put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas. I'm not gonna spend all day in Christmas land everywhere then coming home to it.
When I was a kid my family put up the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving (US), and took it down January 1, all as a family fun thing. I still do that.
November? It's late August in the UK.
They have year-round Christmas stores in some places. Just nothing but Christmas stuff for sale 365 days a year. I always wonder about people who go to such stores in April or May.
The only thing I could think of is people that film stuff, as if you want to make a Christmas episode or movie, you will have to film it way in advanced in order to release it on Christmas.
I don't know that much filming goes on in Gladewater, Texas.
https://greenwoodchristmas.com/
And that is the tip of the bizarre iceberg.
People have been buying bags of candy since mid-August for October 31.
I saw a pallet of candy corn at Meijer at the end of July. I bought a bag and it turned out to be the most fresh and delicious bag of candy corn I've ever eaten. Then I realized that all the stale candy corn I usually buy around October and am disappointed in is just super old because it sat around for 3 months before being eaten. So I've decided from now on, I will only enjoy candy corn during peak candy corn harvest in late July early August.
You city boys make me sick!
Up here in God's country we don't go to no dad-blamed, fancy nancy Meijer store for our candy corn. Hell, no! We drive our trucks to the top of the Devil's Mountain of Screaming Insanity and Painful Death; then we hike fifty seven miles through the Unholy Swamp, cross the Bridge of Savage Disembowelment into the Forbidden Plains of Lugubrious Misery, and then, and only then, after proving our strength and manly worth, do we allow our Mommies to give us the candy corn THEY got at Meijer
Lol, everyone knows candy corn is harvested in July. The stuff you buy in the fall is imported from Peru
for October 31
....right.
Do I, perchance, detect the slightest whiff of...sarcasm?
That shit stale as fuck now.
Mariah Carey will have something to say about this!
It's already Christmas ⛄🎁! I don't know what you're talking about.
Even now, their settlers colonize October. All self defense is valid.
Found the Venuzuelan!
I can feel it, a change in the air, the water runs colder... It's October. But it feels like it's about to be Christmas. I can't help but notice the sensation, warmth yet fridged, the desire for a cup of cider by a warm fire... Even stores have started putting up winter light displays... Do not tell me the old magic has lost it's affect on you young ones, close your eyes, breath deep of Christmas Magic...
To be fair Halloween has did a good bit of creeping as well this year. Not a bad thing, I guess. I never am in the mood for it though I like horror movies and shit.
Halloween isn't a holiday, it's a state of mind.
How moronic. You can buy christmas stuff 2 months before christmas but not clothes in-season.
I knew it. November is in cahoots with the Happy Holidays crowd.
IMO, Halloween needs to extend into November. The US has Thanksgiving, but it might as well be mini-Christmas at this point. Halloween needs to establish a bulwark.
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween.
Xmas is for ignorant Christians.
