Yes, last Sunday (September 25th) I went into the local Walmart and they had two full aisles of Christmas decorations - the lit up trees, garlands, strings of lights, Christmas villages…
Ah yes, despite it being 100 degrees here in Las Vegas, never too early to start getting ready for Christmas! Figgy pudding anyone?
The only stores that are allowed to have Christmas stuff out this early are craft stores, since it might take a few months to get a project together. Everyone else, though? No way.
Not till you finish your meat.
ETA: Incidentally, I believe the title should be changed to “Happy Holidays from Walmart.”
Christmas Time! Christmas Time! Jesus, Mary, and the manger! Christmas time! Family time! Do all your shopping at Wal-Mart!
The retailers are turning me into a Christmas hating grinch more and more every year. Every store that I have been in recently (house guests visiting, I am NOT a shopper as a general rule) including Kohl’s, Ollies, Target, Garden Ridge, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Walmart has Christmas crap on display. Not even the end of September. Can’t we just, I don’t know, SKIP Christmas this year? Maybe next year too.
I think it should be like the Olympics: held once every four years and in rotating countries. This year is Finland’s turn.
I’m going to be over seas this Christmas, and I am really looking forward to missing it!
No shitty music this year! No long lines and lack of parking spaces! No seeing relatives I don’t care for!
Woo hoo!
Don’t they sell Red Ryder BB guns at Walmart?
I haven’t seen one Christmas decoration yet this year. Come on, people, it’s almost Halloween!
There’s one exception – I saw a fully decorated tree on Labor Day weekend. And Memorial Day. The guy keeps it up all year.
A Christmas Carol from The Master. No, not Cecil, Tom.
My local Walmart has their Christmas trees up too…but since that section is currently labeled clearance and is otherwise full of marked-down summer clothes, pool supplies, leftover fertilizer, and school supplies, I figured they just had to make room in the stockroom for Halloween costumes or something.
At least the Christmas food isn’t out yet. I spent a couple of autumns in the UK wondering if everyone secretly bought their Christmas puddings and mince pies before Halloween, thus explaining why the grocery stores had an entire corner (of really small shops) devoted to them in September.
Ha! It took until the first week of September for the grocery stores here to start filling the shelves with Lebkuchen and Lindt chocolates in different shapes (new this year: teddy bears with red and gold heart necklaces) and Christmas marzipans and Baumkuchen. There are certain treats that absolutely positively canNOT be had after the end of November (I’m thinking bitterly of the individual bags of Christmas Haribo gummis). Bottles of Gluehwein, those Christmassy ales …
Frohe Weihnachten!
My walmart had decorations out, but they were in the back and not lit.
I love the fact that here in the UK they start selling mince pies (which most people only eat at christmas) in October with a best before date of somewhere in the middle on November. I’ve frequently seen people buying christmas fare with a use by date somewhere in the middle of December!
WTF?
Exactly. If the Pfeffernussen come out in September, I won’t want any by the time December comes around.
You had better not come to Australia then - one of our local discount shops has had Christmas stuff out for at least a month now. They are not playing carols yet but I’m sure that as soon as they finish trying to impose halloween on us the carols will come out.
Be grateful you don’t live in Australia. David Jones (a department store which considers itself a cut above) had Christmas trees and decorations out on 28th August - possibly even earlier but I was in the store on 28/8. I commented to a saleswoman who agreed that it was ridiculous.
It’s worse than you all know.
The Christmas decorations and stuff for sale? It’s for Christmas 2012.
I get irrationally angry when I’m in a store and Christmas stuff is up. “It’s still summer!” I say to my wife as she ignores me because she’s heard it a million times before.
What’s worse? My wife luuurves Christmas and would start buying stuff if I let her. We have an agreement: she doesn’t do anything Christmasy until after Thanksgiving. The day after I can’t/won’t complain at all.
That’s easy for you to say. American Thanksgiving is in November. Ours is in early October.
Well to be fair, isn’t it always 100 degrees in Las Vegas?