I wasn’t blaming Advent for Christmas decorations in October- that’s commercialism’s fault (and largely due to the lead time built into all businesses for moving merchandise). I was pointing out that taking notice of the upcoming season beginning end-of-November-ish wasn’t a modern phenomenon.
I favor the holiday limitation statute, which forbids the display of decorations or any advertising until the first of the month in which the holiday occurs, or 2 weeks before the holiday occurs whichever comes first.
Let’s teach them a lesson! No one buy anything Christmas related until after Thanksgiving. We can do this people!
Too late. I have most of my XMas shopping done and just last night bought some large gift bags to wrap up Mom’s computer.
Um … I kind of want the lawn peacock.
But I want everything winter/Christmas here now.
Here’s my current weather.
Weather for (My City)
3:21 PM
Temperature: 100°F
Current: Sunny
Wind: E at 10 mph
Humidity: 10%
Further inspection has revealed that the peacock’s “feathers” actually have a snowflake motif, and that its LED’s “twinkle”.
(It’s actually sort of cute!)
Commercials, schmommercials, the dagblasted Public Building I work at every day is already hanging fake boughs of holly from the bannisters. Yo, public disservants, don’t get your clue from the Mall, WE do not need to draw in foot traffic to make up for slow sales! You’re just making it obvious the crew intends to take ALL of Thanksgiving week off so they’re getting this out of the way before!
While I agree that it’s too early for Christmas propaganda, there are so many ways to watch television without commercials that anyone who still voluntarily sits through them deserves what they get.
I went to the store on Halloween day to get more candy. There wasn’t any; that is, the Halloween display was gone to make room for, yes, Christmas crap. I had to buy the full price candy (what I could find) in the candy aisle.
One good thing last year: the program guide on Time Warner did NOT blare Christmas music 24/7. (Not that weepy violin renditions of ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ and ‘You Only Live Twice’ are any better) but they threw in the occasional Christmas music only a few times an hour.
The shopping center by my office put up their Christmas decorations today. It’s fucking BONFIRE NIGHT, it’s three fucking weeks to THANKSGIVING, and they’re decorating for a holiday that’s SEVEN weeks away and not everybody around here celebrates!
:mad:
It’s really too early for threads bitching about Christmas, FWIW.
BONFIRE NIGHT…hmm. You know, some Christmas decorations are rather flammable. 
The grocery store and the convenience store I stopped in today were both setting up Christmas decorations, and at work the landlord was stopping traffic in the parking lots to set out the Christmas lights on trees that still have leaves on.
I wish they’d wait till Advent.
In my city, the official Christmas City* of America, we start decorating for Christmas on Columbus day. Literally. The entire city gets decorated with lights and big ornaments and everything and it takes months to finish. We hang live Christmas trees on every single lamp post in the city and the first ones go up on Columbus day. Every one is decorated with lights but they don’t turn them on until the ceremonial tree lighting with the mayor, which happens on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And yes, the giant “main” Christmas tree the mayor lights is already up and decorated at city hall.
For some reason it’s annoying me more this year than it ever has before.
*We actually claim to be the official Christmas city but I can’t remember who we allegedly registered our official claim with. Santa, I suppose.
Bethlehem, PA?
Santa Claus, IN?
Yes!
Close!
Then it’s a good thing I pitted something else, isn’t it?