I had a few errands to run this morning and in two of the stores they had started putting up their Christmas displays. I remember it being funny as a kid how quicky the displays went up right after Thanksgiving… then Halloween… before long they’ll be putting up next year’s display before this year’s has been taken down.
If this happens, does that mean we can travel back in time?
Um…
You do realize that those displays are for Christmas 2009, right?
My favorite is that the stores here have a large Christmas display right beside the yet-to-be-clearanced outdoor lawn equipment. Usually, it is a fall display, but the fact that a store would think it proper to put Christmas lights and blow-up lawn ornaments beside new sprinkler systems - in Ohio. Oh well…
Brendon Small
I always get a kick out of the Sears Wish Book arriving in late August. I guess they’re giving kids a full 4 months to wear down their parents’ resistance to the newest $600 toy.
So my neighbors who never take their Christmas decorations down earlier than mid-February are actually harbingers of the future?
The local Walmart has had Christmas stuff out since Labor Day.
I thought that giant Lego Man was the first sign?
The Giant supermarket by my house puts up their wreaths the day after Halloween.
I thought we were well past the first sign by now. Shouldn’t there be a lamb and a seal at this point?
I’m sorry, but this must be at least the second sign. Everybody knows that the first sign of the Apocalypse was when Michael Jackson and George Hamilton passed each other on the skin-tone scale.
That said, I think the worst (immediate) effect of the early start on the pre-Xmas ad-blitz is the weakening of the status of the Thanksgiving season which I’ve always found to be less stressful and more heartwarming.