# Department store Christmas decoration sightings thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467 "2008-09-27T13:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/21 "2008-09-28T18:31:01Z")
Back in May or June, I saw some Christmas-themes Kleenex boxes on a shelf in a store, but I forget which store. They were next to the regular boxes, so I just assumed they were trying to unload leftovers from last year. ---
**Author:** ![amelioration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@amelioration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amelioration)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/22 "2008-09-28T21:50:21Z")
I’ve seen it for a couple weeks now. I work in a department store, and we’ve already got a big feature display of extremely kitschy Christmas decor up. I’m so glad I don’t have to take care of that section; I think having to manage Christmas merchandise in _September_ would be just too much for me to take seriously. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/23 "2008-09-28T22:08:19Z")
There’s a giant christmas aisle up at our local Lowes. The Halloween stuff is behind the christmas stuff. Seems a bit odd. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/24 "2008-09-28T22:27:05Z")
I was out shopping at CostCo (in the San Fernando valley in LA) on Sept. 21st and it had its big ticket Christmas/Winter Holiday stuff out. That includes tackey plastic trees, lights and electronic organs that mangle all the holiday favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Kalea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@Kalea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalea)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/25 "2008-09-29T00:31:51Z")
Bellevue Square (Bellevue, WA) Macy’s Home and Godiva both have their decorations up. I was going to buy new linens at Macy’s. When I saw the decorations, I changed my mind. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/26 "2008-09-29T01:28:11Z")
I heard an ad for _Trans-Siberian Orchestra_ Christmas show about three weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/27 "2008-09-29T01:28:22Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > There’s a giant christmas aisle up at our local Lowes. The Halloween stuff is behind the christmas stuff. Seems a bit odd. We (the Lowes I work at) had our Halloween stuff out at the end of August. We had snowblowers out the first week of September. Our Christmas stuff was set earlier this week. The schedule our corporate masters use is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/28 "2008-09-29T02:00:44Z")
> [@Convict](#): > > We (the Lowes I work at) had our Halloween stuff out at the end of August. We had snowblowers out the first week of September. Our Christmas stuff was set earlier this week. > > The schedule our corporate masters use is interesting. Yeah, I noticed that when I was in a Lowe’s today. They should be killed. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/29 "2008-09-29T06:59:49Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Less than 3 months to go! Are they up yet in your area? Since when? Post your earliest sightings here. Year-round Christmas theme stores disqualified, please. Yep, sorry to say. Yesterday at work I heard a manager tell an associate to move Thanksgiving merchandise to accomodate the early Christmas merchandise (at a Wally world). Oh, bother. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/30 "2008-09-29T07:40:50Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Not that I’ve seen yet. But the October long weekend (next weekend) is usually the point at which they start to appear: spring; warmer weather; people out and about more. Christmas trees are up and decorated in Big W stores in South Australia. I kid you not. At least they haven’t started with the in-store carols yet. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Omgalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@Omgalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omgalion)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/31 "2008-09-29T07:59:16Z")
I saw Christmas decorations and trees for sale in a department store in Brisbane last week, and Christmas shortbread as an impulse buy item in a discount store. It’s way too early for that, surely. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/32 "2008-09-29T12:35:54Z")
I’d like to report that I saw 2 ex x-mas stores this year. That’s right those abominations are in decline like the ladies that spent every summer vacation shopping them. Besides stuff set up in defunct seasonal areas, stores normally wait until after Halloween, which is a seasonal area too. Don’t even try to pretend that Thanksgiving warrants giant sections to it’s merchandise. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/33 "2008-09-29T13:17:28Z")
> [@Convict](#): > > We (the Lowes I work at) had our Halloween stuff out at the end of August. We had snowblowers out the first week of September. Our Christmas stuff was set earlier this week. > > The schedule our corporate masters use is interesting. I was in Lowes eary in the week of 9/15 and they had two aisles of Christmas merchandise, but no actual store decorations yet. Frankly, I was disgusted. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/34 "2008-09-29T13:28:33Z")
I was at a Kohl’s department store a couple of weeks ago to buy socks, and while they didn’t have any Xmas merchandise on display yet, there was a section of empty shelves that (if the signs were any indication) were going to hold their “Christmas Village” stuff. And at Menard’s yesterday, right near the Halloween decorations, the Xmas village stuff was starting to appear… ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/35 "2008-09-29T13:29:44Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **hides under desk** Make room for me. When I was living in Santo Domingo there would be stores with Xmas decoration at the beginning of September. Now that I live in the boonies I am hoping to be spared of the spectacle. Ah, the Xmas carols… Makes you wish you were deaf. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/36 "2008-09-29T13:41:27Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Make room for me. > > When I was living in Santo Domingo there would be stores with Xmas decoration at the beginning of September. Now that I live in the boonies I am hoping to be spared of the spectacle. > > Ah, the Xmas carols… Makes you wish you were deaf. I’ve seen boonies where the Christmas decorations don’t come down, because they’d just hafta go back up in a month. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/37 "2008-09-29T16:08:26Z")
I may not be able to afford shopping there, but Nordstrom gets a plug from me for celebrating the holidays the old fashioned way - one at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/38 "2008-09-29T16:13:35Z")
> [@lunar\_elf](#): > > Add Lowes to the list - They had lights and the giant mechanical lawn ornaments out yesterday when I stopped to go check some things out. I went by there last week and caught them in the act of putting up a Christmas tree display. I just rolled my eyes and sighed. I passed a house that had up lights but for all I know they might have those up year round. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/39 "2008-09-29T16:41:37Z")
Lowes in Chicagoland had their display of pre-lit artificial Christmas trees and inflatable Christmas-themed lawn monstrosities up last week. Feh. Inflatable Halloween-themed lawn monstrosities were next to and behind them. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467/40 "2008-09-29T19:31:40Z")
World Market in Oregon has ornaments, marzipan pigs, and peppermint bark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/department-store-christmas-decoration-sightings-thread/465467.md?page=3)