Christmas???

[R. Richard]

I had to go out of town on work for a few days. When I return, I see Christmas trees and decorations everywhere. They're playing Christmas carols in the stores. It aint even Thanksgiving yet!

Do you see the same thing in your area?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yep, we're in full Christmas Mode, here. But it aint looking good.

 

[3113]

I had to go out of town on work for a few days. When I return, I see Christmas trees and decorations everywhere. They're playing Christmas carols in the stores. It aint even Thanksgiving yet!

Do you see the same thing in your area?

You're late! My stores started up right after Halloween. In fact, some started up before Halloween.

I'm afraid Thanksgiving has been pretty well demoted to being nothing more than a Christmas season appetizer. So far as retail is concerned, the Yuletide season should be stretched out from October till January.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Santa arrived at the local department store 2 days ago. This year, he decided to forgo the reindeer and drove a giant monster truck.

There's been an inflatable Santa climbing up a balcony of a building across the street from us for at least two weeks, possibly three. Even in our building, somebody decided it was time and set a Christmas tree up by the main entrance.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

There's a local radio station that's been converted into a Christmas station since September.

 

[CharleyH]

Santa arrived at the local department store 2 days ago. This year, he decided to forgo the reindeer and drove a giant monster truck.

There's been an inflatable Santa climbing up a balcony of a building across the street from us for at least two weeks, possibly three. Even in our building, somebody decided it was time and set a Christmas tree up by the main entrance.

Baby? That was us.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

they have had xmas stuff up here since late august...

 

[R. Richard]

We have had a few places here with Christmas stuff since before Halloween. I put it down to the lunatic fringe. However, now it's everyone!

The 12 days of Christmas, maybe. Two plus months of Christmas? This is out of control!

 

[Sandy_Fox]

And the Druids down the block still have their damn Winter Solstice decorations up from last year!

 

[freshface]

And the Druids down the block still have their damn Winter Solstice decorations up from last year!

Well, that does make decorating quick and easy.

 

[Liar]

Huh.

I have a Christmas decoration.

Maybe it's time to try and remember where I put it.

 

[sr71plt]

We're putting our trees up early this next week. Not because we're pushing th season, but because we're lazy--we are going to make our Thanksgiving crowd decorate them for us. (That and our first hosted Christmas party in the next week.)

 

[jomar]

We're putting our trees up early this next week...That and our first hosted Christmas party in the next week.)

Ditto for the party next week so we'll get them up this weekend, mostly. We're doing TG at relatives, so will skip that at home.

But yes, Christmas is in the stores and on the streets.

 

[3113]

We have had a few places here with Christmas stuff since before Halloween. I put it down to the lunatic fringe.

Ha! Little you know. Halloween is like a go-light to retail. A checkered flag falling and starting the race to Xmas! Sales clerks barely have time to move Halloween masks and candy to the sales racks before Holiday themed items have taken their place on the shelves--and that usually happens a week before October 31st.

And don't even try to find Thanksgiving themed items. The best you're gonna manage is in the cooking section where there are a few turkey decorated platters and Autumn-leaf-shaped cookie cutters.

The only decency retail still has in this regard is to wait till mid-november before they start playin' the damned holiday music.

 

[R. Richard]

The only decency retail still has in this regard is to wait till mid-november before they start playin' the damned holiday music.

If that's decency, I don't want to know your defintion of excess!

 

[Sandy_Fox]

The only decency retail still has ...

[Partial thread jack]

and do NOT wish me "Happy Holiday's" until after December 1st, you fucking morons!

and STOP being so fucking PC by asking me if I am shopping for "Holiday Presents," I'm not there to do my "Kwanza" shopping and I'm not in the dreidel department!

and I AM going to be super pissed if I see the exact same thing I paid $98.99 for reduced to $9.99 on January 2nd! If you can sell it for that price then, you can sell it for that price now!

[/Partial thread jack]

 

[sr71plt]

[Partial thread jack]

and do NOT wish me "Happy Holiday's" until after December 1st, you fucking morons!

and STOP being so fucking PC by asking me if I am shopping for "Holiday Presents," I'm not there to do my "Kwanza" shopping and I'm not in the dreidel department!

and I AM going to be super pissed if I see the exact same thing I paid $98.99 for reduced to $9.99 on January 2nd! If you can sell it for that price then, you can sell it for that price now!

[/Partial thread jack]

Well, as long as you are in the holiday spirit. That's what counts.

 

[matriarch]

Christmas stuff has been up and about for weeks and weeks and weeks. Drives me insane. If it wasn't for the secret santa on here, and buying in time to send to the States, we wouldn't even be thinking about it.

 

[TE999]

It's Christmas in November! HellMart converted Lawn and Garden into a Wintry Fairyland before Halloween. My city decorated all the utility poles on the major roads two weeks ago. The electronics stores have been hawking Christmas CD's And DVD's since Nov. 1. Some houses and businesses here are already decorating and we received our first Christmas card today.

Thanksgiving? What Thanksgiving?

 

[Bran_Hopewell]

Pretty much the same thing here....the city is already out helping people decorate their tall pine trees with cherry pickers (something the city does for free, which is nice). Walmart had their Halloween aisle taken down a week before Halloween and they had their Christmas section up in lawn and garden before people even quit mowing their yards.

It's disgusting, really. At least the radio stations in these parts have the decency to not bombard us with Christmas music. Hell, last year they didn't start it up until about two-weeks before, and the weekend after, they were done.

 

[Trombonus]

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[Bran_Hopewell]

Nice one!

 

[3113]

and STOP being so fucking PC by asking me if I am shopping for "Holiday Presents," I'm not there to do my "Kwanza" shopping and I'm not in the dreidel department!

You're shopping for Druid robes? "Happy Yule!"

Hey, far as I'm concerned they'd better be fuckin' PC! I'm sick to death of Christians insisting that this time of year is their holiday and their holiday only. If stores wish me only "Merry Christmas" then they're essentially saying, "If you're not a Christian and celebrating Christmas, then you can go fuck yourself! You don't get any well wishes from us at all, no matter what you buy." I don't happen to like that. And I don't happen to like the way Christians try to bully stores into, essentially, saying that only their mythology counts at this time of year.

Just because I'm not in the dreidel department doesn't mean I'm buying Christmas presents.

I'll stick with Happy Holidays, thank you very much.

 

[rengadeirishman]

You're shopping for Druid robes? "Happy Yule!"

Hey, far as I'm concerned they'd better be fuckin' PC! I'm sick to death of Christians insisting that this time of year is their holiday and their holiday only. If stores wish me only "Merry Christmas" then they're essentially saying, "If you're not a Christian and celebrating Christmas, then you can go fuck yourself! You don't get any well wishes from us at all, no matter what you buy." I don't happen to like that. And I don't happen to like the way Christians try to bully stores into, essentially, saying that only their mythology counts at this time of year.

Just because I'm not in the dreidel department doesn't mean I'm buying Christmas presents.

I'll stick with Happy Holidays, thank you very much.

it hardly seems worth getting upset one way or another, i was in reisterstown (a very heavily jewish area) in middecember last year and had a few people say happy hanukkah to me, so i quite happily said "happy hanukkah to you as well" and went about my business.

it seems like some people like finding things to get indignant about, on every side of every issue.

 

[Bran_Hopewell]

it hardly seems worth getting upset one way or another, i was in reisterstown (a very heavily jewish area) in middecember last year and had a few people say happy hanukkah to me, so i quite happily said "happy hanukkah to you as well" and went about my business.

it seems like some people like finding things to get indignant about, on every side of every issue.

Pretty much, it's the thought that counts.

If it wasn't, we'd all get black t-shirts with bold white letters that proudly display our religion so as to remove all doubt over whether we should say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Kwanza, Happy Yule, or Get Bent you Atheist Fuck.

Not that I have anything against Atheists....some of my best friends are atheists...just seemed delightfully inappropriate to put it in there.