It’s September 13th, correct? Because I seem to remember seeing all sorts of 9/11 memorial services on the television set this weekend. I’m a big sleeper, but I think work would have come looking for me if I’d have slept in for a month and a half. But if it is, in fact, September 13, could someone please tell me why in the living fuck Parisian (a local department store) has decided to set up their Christmas retail section?!?
because Christmas season needs to be finished by mid-November in order to make room for the St. Patrick’s Day displays. Sheesh! We gotta tell you everything?
because the store owners know instinctively that if they set it up before labor day, they’ll be eviscerated by a horde of parents who are just barely keeping their rage in check at the moment?
What about Halloween? I’ve been seeing displays at the grocery stores with Halloween candy for weeks.
I feel like it should be the end of October already, but the kids just went back to school last week.
Heh. The Buena Park (CA) Wal*Mart has been standing by to sell you a five-foot high Grinch in a Santa suit (animated for extreme Christmas-stealing action) for the past three weeks.
Yeah, Halloween ***used to * ** start mid-September. That was only about six years ago. Now the displays start in late August. At least, that’s when I first noticed them.
Well, you can’t fight progress. :rolleyes:
This is actually one of my biggest pet peeves. I understand that people shop early. I started shopping for Christmas gifts two months ago. But let’s not push it people. Let’s get Halloween out of the way and then you can start with the Christmas stuff (personally, I would like it if they’d wait until just before Thanksgiving - but I know that will never happen). Geez, by the time Thanksgiving gets here I’m already tired of Christmas carols. It’s just wrong…
Funny story:
Last Labor Day weekend a friend and I went shopping at a fairly nice department store (I think it was Macy’s - can’t remember - not important) to take advantage of the Labor Day sale. They must have just strung the Christmas garland from the ceiling. She and I both noticed it simultaneously. (It must have looked very funny the two of us coming to a dead stop and staring at the ceiling in unison). We were right where the cosmetics and jewelry departments meet so it was fairly quiet. And she, at the top of her lungs, belted out “What the fuck? Am I really standing here in shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt sweating my ass off looking at fucking Christmas decorations?”
Needless to say, we beat a hasty retreat from the store immediately 
(she didn’t care but I was having a ‘I wish the ground would swallow me up’ moment).
I was at my local Garden Ridge in July. Mid-July, IIRC. They had Christmas out everywhere. :mad:
I enjoy Christmas as much as the next person. However, I also enjoy summer, autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving. And I don’t want Christmas until after Thanksgiving. It can start the day after Thanksgiving, and that’s cool. So I understand a store feeling a need to put out Christmas stuff after Halloween, so those who need to start decorating the day after Thanksgiving can get their shopping jollies in. But WTF does it need to be put out in mid-July???
I went last week to see if I could find some Halloween decorations. They have a teeny, tiny section of Halloween stuff, off in a corner where you really have to look for it. :mad: :mad:
Why does this suprise people every year? It’s been going on for at least 30 years. I remember getting upset when I was a Jr. High School student (that would be the mid 70’s) about the first xmas commercial on TV showing up in late August. I have a book of Peanuts (Charlie Brown) comic strips from the early 60’s where they make fun of this.
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And she, at the top of her lungs, belted out “What the fuck? Am I really standing here in shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt sweating my ass off looking at fucking Christmas decorations?”
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shamrock227, your friend is my new idol.
This doesn’t happen at every retail store, thank God. The Walmart I work for just set out the Halloween stuff. (And damn it you people, you better enjoy that candy - it is damn heavy.)
Pfft. Gone through two restockings of the Halloween candy bounty for trick-or-treaters, and September’s not half gone yet.
Bastards.
I went shopping today and saw… Christmas cards. Why the hell would I want to send Christmas cards in September? Royal Mail isn’t perfect, but it’s not bad enough that I need to post Xmas cards in SEPTEMBER.