Egg-nog now on sale in the grocery store yesterday.
Silent Night playing in the local coffee shop.
Christmas is just around the corner…
Around here WalMart starts putting out their fake Xmas trees and such 3rd week of September. Really gets you in the holiday spirit. 
I start growing my Yuletide mustache November 1. *That’s *when the holiday season begins. I know it seems a bit early, but if you want a nice hairy upper lip on Christmas Eve, it takes time.
The local Dollar General started its Christmas display in its front window the last week of August.
I refuse to buy fall scents or decorations before October 1. I will not buy egg nog until the week of Thanksgiving. I will not buy or put up Christmas decorations until December 1. I will keep the Christmas decorations up until about February. 
I can sort of understand why stores try to get us buying things earlier - it means more money for them. I don’t like it, but at least I *get *it.
I pick up Christmas presents all year, as I get ideas and find sales. But I don’t do anything remotely Christmassy until December 1st, and even then I usually wait till a weekend to start decorating. I wait until *after *Christmas to buy decorations and wrapping paper and anything else I may need for next year. All this christmas junk displayed in October isn’t tempting me at all. Except, possibly, for the Lindt chocolate reindeer.
But this?
This will just increase the suicide rate in retail associates.
My Church choir started rehearsing possible Christmas music last night.
But since we’ll need six to twelve pieces ready to perform in various bits of December, it makes sense to start learning some now.
And at the retail location I work, Early Christmas already shipped, and the next shipment comes in 2 weeks.
We really don’t have space for chocolate reindeer and candy canes until the candy corn and other trick or treat candy has been sold.
Do we get to bet on when your yard is covered in snow? 
Too damn early our highs are still in the eighties and we may have another heat wave.
Capt
When I worked retail the Christmas stuff started coming in the middle of August. My mom works for a department store, and they started putting the Christmas stuff out the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Please don’t go there!!
That’s nothing, I was seeing back to school ads on TV in mid June. You know, before summer even officially started.
Also, I think you can get egg nog year round, I don’t buy it other than in december, but I’m sure I’ve seen it at other times.
I still haven’t managed to collect my winnings from the spring pool. 
Cracker Barrel has the holiday trifecta on display - Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! Can Valentines be far behind??
I’m a Christmas freak but decorations don’t go up until after Thanksgiving. Halloween is the “hump” I wait for to start addressing cards and plotting the gift baskets.
I wonder if the holiday creep actually offsets sales as the years go by?
I don’t know of any of my friends who card at all about holidays these days. Maybe because by the time the holiday actually comes, people are sick of it?
Meaning that, sure, the buying season was short in years past. But, people were buying. Seems now the season is long, but people just diike it all and want nothing to do with it.
That’s my take anyway.
I couldn’t be much happier. It’s kind of like the song “Silver Bells” http://www.metrolyrics.com/silver-bells-lyrics-bing-crosby.html. Well, not exactly like that-everybody is just as psychotic, but, I feel better, inside. When the stores bring out the Christmas goodies, life gets happier for me. It cannot happen too early. Well, actually, before Sept. 1 is a bit early, but, I wouldn’t be too angry.
As you,no doubt, have already assumed, I am an immature idiot.
Everyone (except handsomeharry, apparently) complains about this, but does anyone do anything? A boycott of any business that does anything christmassy before Halloween is the only thing that will make any difference, IMO.
It’s too late this year, but maybe next summer we should try to organize something.
I just got back from Disney World today, and my friend and I were commenting that at least they didn’t have Christmas stuff out in the stores yet. It was definitely Halloween.
They say my country (Philippines) has the longest Christmas celebration that starts in September but it isn’t true. Some radio stations start playing carols, some speakers talk of a countdown till X’mas, and stores have the usual early sales. Well, it’s the same everywhere. Merchants start stocking up on Christmas merchandise in September and want to put in an extra month or two of retailing. We still prepare for All-saints day (November 1) and many kids now like to go trick-or-treating.
The real yuletide season starts when people get their 13th and 14th month bonuses in December.
I enjoy looking at the decorations in the shops. It has been years since I have decorated any at home.