In my local Kwik-E-Mart equivalent they are already playing Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody on heavy rotation, and they have the tinsel out. It’s November 9th, fer feck’s sake! I don’t know if I can take seven more weeks of this.
On Nov. 1st I walked into Kinko’s and commented to the cashier on the swiftness of their Christmas decorations-- “Wow, the day after Halloween and you’ve already got them up!” Her response: “Oh, no, you don’t understand. They’ve been up since before Halloween. If they start playing music this week, I may have to quit or kill someone.”
For the love of all that is good, what about Thanksgiving, people? Can’t we have a few weeks of fall before we get out the Christmas parade of stuff?
(Of course, I spent yesterday sewing a Christmas stocking for the baby. But I had a good reason, really I did. It’s just too long and boring to type.
Thanskgiving doesn’t make money, and we all know that holidays exist for the express purpose of getting off from work and making huge corporations billions of dollars. They’re just trying to make sure that you don’t forget about Christmas! Thanksgiving on the other hand… it might be downsized by 2040. Just isn’t profitable enough.
Only seven weeks? 
We had Christmas decorations and music start appearing in stores Labor Day weekend!!
That really honks me off. Mr. Rilch and I have been searching fruitlessly for T’giving decorations, and we can’t even find a centerpiece! Dang it, whatever happened to Pilgrim people and Ind^H^H^H^H^H^H^Native Americans? You always used to be able to get those, at a crafts store, at least!
Luckily, I snagged a toy turkey back in '01. His name’s Freddie, and he’s a close personal friend of Babs, from Chicken Run. You should see him; he’s so cute! Skinny little striped legs, a pear-shaped body, and when you squeeze his middle, he makes the gobbling sound! Well, I guess I won’t tell him that he’s an endangered species in more ways than one.
I work in a retail store in a mall. Although the mall hasn’t started piping Christmas music in with theirs, our store has. Every fourth or fifth song is a Christmas tune.
Luckily, our store targets 18-30 year olds, so most of those Christmas songs are fun and funky rock covers and stuff like that. So it’s tolerable.
We even put our Christmas inventory out the day after Halloween. That is the way it works in retail. It has for a long time, and it will continue to do so for a long time.
Although, you seem to have beaten me by a week-and-a-half! :eek:
If it makes anyone feel better, I started a Thanksgiving wall quilt today. I did, during the Halloween frenzy, see some nice fall-leaves garlands in the craft store, but they’re probably gone now in the Christmas-stuff-blizzard. I probably should have bought them, just to support the poor holiday…
Well, I’m really looking forward to Thankgiving this year, I have two new nieces to meet (OK, one still in utero, but any minute now!), and all my siblings will be here. There are 5 of us.
A group of Christmas elves entered an Oslo department store yesterday with a citation signed by You-Know-Who. The store is charged with excessive use of elves in excessively early Christmas marketing campaigns, and was fined 25 reindeer.
I am not making this up 