Nooooooooo!!!

[cheerful_deviant]

It's started.





I just got my first Christmas 2006 catolog in the mail today.

 

[matriarch]

Burn it.
Destroy it.
Remove it from existence.
Deny it's existence.

Be brave, valiant ducky. We will overcome.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

It's started.

I just got my first Christmas 2006 catolog in the mail today.

Go get 'em, Christmas duck. Yule love it.

http://bestsmileys.com/christmas1/1.gif

Rumple Foreskin

 

[neonlyte]

It's started.





I just got my first Christmas 2006 catolog in the mail today.

We used to get this in the patisserie. height of summer and the sales rep's would arrive with the Christmas catalogues pressing for orders when half the staff were on holiday, you couldn't remember what day it was, less what you'd managed to sell last Christmas. I hated July almost as much as April. Why April? Summer holiday conceptions - do you have any idea how many birthday cakes you have to make in April?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Why April? Summer holiday conceptions - do you have any idea how many birthday cakes you have to make in April?

Break my illusions of uniqueness, why don't you.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Burn it.
Destroy it.
Remove it from existence.
Deny it's existence.

Be brave, valiant ducky. We will overcome.

It was delt with before it could cause any trouble. (Read: before my daughters could see it. )

 

[neonlyte]

Break my illusions of uniqueness, why don't you.

Coitado.

The worst thing about April birthday cakes was the orders always came at the last possible moment - just like the real thing

 

[matriarch]

It was delt with before it could cause any trouble. (Read: before my daughters could see it. )

Phew!
That's a relief.

I hate it that back in UK, Christmas cards start appearing on the racks in shops, round about September........when we still have Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night to get through.

It disgusts me, the way the retail trade manipulates our days, to their monetary advantage. Well, I for one, refused to play their games a long time ago. I stopped buying and sending Christmas cards, except for exceptional circumstances, when my list got up to over 150 and was rising. I HAVE to send one to my parents, and to one or two friends who I rarely see (distance), but who I keep in contact with. And if I can get away with it, I make my own cards. What's the point of an artistic bent, plus computer and printer if I don't make the most of them?

As for gifts.....my mother is always proud of the fact that she has all her presents bought and wrapped by the end of October!! Ye gods!!

Apart from those that have to be sent overseas, I rarely even think about buying gifts until I've left it too late. And again, I try to make gifts where I can.

I hate the whole materialistic feel of it.

[/soapbox moment over]

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Christmas in July perhaps?

 

[Guest]

 

[English Lady]

Christmas in July perhaps?

I did that last year *nods* they had all their christmas cartoons on boomerang, so i decided we'd have a pretend christmas in the middle of july -it was really fun. We put out a little tree, made crackers, had a christmas dinner and I made mince pies. We made presents, and cards and just had a really fun, family day.

Yes, I'm mad

 

[simply_cyn]

I did that last year *nods* they had all their christmas cartoons on boomerang, so i decided we'd have a pretend christmas in the middle of july -it was really fun. We put out a little tree, made crackers, had a christmas dinner and I made mince pies. We made presents, and cards and just had a really fun, family day.

Yes, I'm mad

I've always admired people who have the imagination and creativity to pull of fun out-of-the-box parties and/or get togethers. You and my brother's wife should get together ... I swear that woman could give Martha Stewart a run for her money! lol

 

[Guest]

The Christmas Catalogs never bother me...a good friend works in the purchasing dept of a large department store chain, and HE's been working on Christmas since April.

I used to do the major Christmas shopping expeditions with lists and budgets and hours of hunting. Then I started catalog shopping and I'd get the whole thing done in a few hours sitting on the bed with catalogs all over. Now, I still use the catalogs, but I just hit the websites and I typically have my shopping done by the start of November, so that I've got a good 40 days for "last minute" pick up items

And this is because I am VERY LAZY...

 

[TheEarl]

It disgusts me, the way the retail trade manipulates our days, to their monetary advantage. Well, I for one, refused to play their games a long time ago. I stopped buying and sending Christmas cards, except for exceptional circumstances, when my list got up to over 150 and was rising. I HAVE to send one to my parents, and to one or two friends who I rarely see (distance), but who I keep in contact with. And if I can get away with it, I make my own cards. What's the point of an artistic bent, plus computer and printer if I don't make the most of them?

I dislike Christmas cards as well. I realised a few year back that I was just giving people bits of cardboard with "Dear X, Merry Christmas, From xxxxx' written inside. It was practically a popularity thing; you had to try and get lots of cards and make sure you gave cards to everyone who gave them to you. So I stopped doing them and told everyone that I was and why I was. By and large, people don't expect them from me anymore.

Thank god the greetings industry hasn't caught onto Wicca yet, with the 8 sabbats. The day I see a 'Happy Imbolc' card will be the day I give up on the world's sanity altogether.

As for gifts.....my mother is always proud of the fact that she has all her presents bought and wrapped by the end of October!! Ye gods!!

I might be guilty of that one. <sheepish look> At least the buying side, if not the wrapping. I've got both my sisters to buy for for that end of the year, so I tend to plan my present buying around the first birthday at the end of October.

The Earl

 

[lucky-E-leven]

We went to Hobby Lobby today and they already had up Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decor. Loads of it.
*checks calendar*
Yup. Only July 8th. WTF?

 

[TheEarl]

We went to Hobby Lobby today and they already had up Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decor. Loads of it.
*checks calendar*
Yup. Only July 8th. WTF?

But not a drop of Saimhuin, right?


Right?

The Earl

 

[arienette]

It was delt with before it could cause any trouble. (Read: before my daughters could see it. )

I wish Christmas catalogues came here, I want to look through them. I always loved doing that - going through them and circling things I wanted, but knew I wouldn't get. It was nice, I liked it.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Today I went to the store and there were Halloween things on display. I don't know how long they had been there, but it just seems too early to me.

 

[arienette]

Today I went to the store and there were Halloween things on display. I don't know how long they had been there, but it just seems too early to me.

My birthday is November 2nd, I've already started counting down.
So no, I don't think it's too early.

 

[Boxlicker101]

My birthday is November 2nd, I've already started counting down.
So no, I don't think it's too early.

My birthday is in October but when you reach a certain age, you try to avoid them.

 

[arienette]

My birthday is in October but when you reach a certain age, you try to avoid them.

I'm not of legal drinking age yet - I'm welcoming every birthday for a couple years.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm not of legal drinking age yet - I'm welcoming every birthday for a couple years.

Although it was five decades ago, I remember that time of my life quite well. I was pretty big and had a heavy beard so I looked older than I was. I sometimes passed for 21 and got served in some bars or bought beer in some stores. It was considered by my contemporaries as an extremely useful talent.

 

[Tom Collins]

Although it was five decades ago, I remember that time of my life quite well. I was pretty big and had a heavy beard so I looked older than I was. I sometimes passed for 21 and got served in some bars or bought beer in some stores. It was considered by my contemporaries as an extremely useful talent.

*snerk* Boxy, the Boozeman.

Someone mistook me for my father's wife when I was 11. WTF, eh? I guess I was...ummmm...tall and shit...*shrug*

It pisses me off that they start trying to sell you shit for a holiday 3 or more months before it comes 'round. When I was a kid, you wouldn't see Halloween decor until it was October. The same for Thanksgiving and Christmas, within the respective months, I mean. Last year I went into Target and heard constant Christmas music playing over the sound system before Thanksgiving, and everywhere was displays of useless Christmas paraphernalia. I would have walked right back out if it hadn't been for the fact that I was there in a professional capacity. I was taking care of the Christmas present buying for the people who live in the group home that I work in, (one of them is a 38-year-old Downs Syndrome guy who still believes in Santa) and the only place I could buy the stuff was Target because that’s where the foundation that I work for told me I had to go.

 

[TheEarl]

I'm not of legal drinking age yet - I'm welcoming every birthday for a couple years.

Really? You're younger than me? Huh, it's taken a long time for that to happen.

The Earl