For goodness sakes… I am willing to tolerate the seasonal green-and-red decorations before Thanksgiving… but before Halloween??? Listen folks – Halloween is my time. It’s my birthday. and I am not ready to “ho ho ho” and “jingle all the way” quite yet, okay?
Next thing I know I’ll go shopping this weekend and actually SEE holiday ornaments on the store windows.
Arrrrrghhhhh!!!
Here, here! Can I get an, “Amen Sister!”?
Sheesh! We haven’t even done Halloween and Christmas is rearing it’s ugly commercial head?!
ARGGGG!!!
I love so much about Christmas but the over the top, crass beyond the pail commercialism… gag me. Gag me hard! With a big, huge spoon all done up in green and red ribbons already!
I refuse to “buy” into Christmas hype. If you get a gift from me it will be something from my heart; a song, a story, a poem, a picture, pottery or glass work … something that I made with my own two hands… not something that I just ran out and bought because I somehow “owed” you.
I hate the “one upmanship” of Christmas that some folks get into (not like I’m mentioning my brother but hey, if the shoe fits…). It really pisses me off! And I’ll be damned into the eighth ring of hell (I’m already in the seventh as I live in Utah) before I will accept advertisements for holiday music at the beginning of OCTOBER!!!
Okay, maybe I should go rant in the Pit… just, hey… give me a break already. Don’t shove Christmas down my gullet until I’ve actually roasted my Halloween pumpkin seeds!
P.S. Happy Birthday Baglady! I always thought you were creepy… now I know why! I just wish I had THAT kind of excuse! 
Hehehe, we put the Holloween candy out two weeks before the end of September at my work.
But what are you all doing for Valentine’s Day?
Buying fireworks for Independence Day.
ARGH! Thank you, baglady!
I went into Hecht’s to buy a sofa yesterday, and on the third floor, where all the home stuff is…the Christmas trees and decorations are right next to stuff for Halloween. This is just WRONG.
I long for the days when they put up decorations around THANKSGIVING, for crying out loud…
Amen sister!
I went shopping for my wife’s birthday present on August 16 of this year, and ran into my first Christmas display.
I’m not kidding, either. The middle of August, and they’re imploring me to start buying stocking stuffers.
It’s no wonder I hate Christmas.
Pipeliner: “I went shopping for my wife’s birthday present on August 16 of this year, and ran into my first Christmas display.”
Wow Pipeliner, that’s pretty scary. Next thing you know, that silly commercial “Christmas in July” sales promotion will actually just stay up for the second half of the year!
Falcon: “I long for the days when they put up decorations around THANKSGIVING, for crying out loud…”
Speaking of which, whatever became of Thanksgiving decorations? Seems the only ones that still set up those are the grocery stores (so they an remind us all to buy those big, plump Butterballs). I suspect the retail industry slowly came to the realization that Halloween and Christmas are great “theme” holidays where people buy stuff marketed around that holiday… but you don’t get as much for Thanksgiving. Oh hmmm… this makes me think of starting a new thread…
I saw Christmas decorations at two houses last Wednesday.
I was driving home from work around 8pm and saw two houses on the same street whose occupants have decided it is Christmas.
One had put out one of those light up lamp posts with green and red sparkly garlands all over it and a light up snowman, and another had an obviously Christmas wreath on the door and the green and red candles in the windows.
I expressed my consternation vocally in the privacy of the car.
We haven’t even had a killing frost yet!
This is a topic of discussion I feel would be better served by being in the Pit because it really really really pisses me off.
I hate it. Christmas that is.
Having to put up with three months of hype is almost more than I can bear.
Baglady:* Speaking of which, whatever became of Thanksgiving decorations? *
I have a wonderfully cheesy Turkey and 2 Pilgrims I used to put up. Wonder if I can find them in time for the holiday.
The creeping rot that is commercialized Christmas attacks us earlier every year. I hate Christmas music (with the sole exception of the Carol of the Bells), and the fact that it blares from store speakers in October often angers me to the point of boycotting a store. If they apologize, and switch to “Night on Bald Mountain”, I’ll come back.
Fake snow is another peeve. I live in Texas; snow doesn’t mean “Christmas”, it means “You’re a long way from home, sucker.” Nevertheless, people insist on ridiculous, snowy displays when it’s still 90º outside.
Where’s the Grinch when you need him?
I saw a fluff-story on the evening news that said that Halloween is now SECOND behind Christmas as a seasonal money-maker for retailers (dollars spent on decorating, costumes, etc.). The sales clerks they interviewed said the Halloween stuff goes out in August now and just as quickly as they can shelf it, the consumers snap it up. Yikees!
Baglady, at first I thought you were going to rant about my Holidays thread. Instead I find a perfectly reasonable tirade about the overcommercialization of Christmas! Whats a gabbler to do?
I agree, this whole truckload of manure that they call Holiday shopping is truly sad. Now, since you celebrate your birthday on Halloween, why not drop by my Holiday thread and tell us about your plans for this year or another outrageous party you had sometime.
Peta Tzunami brought up a very interesting point about Halloween being second to Christmas in spending. I attribute it to the fact that people are out on the town to a much larger degree than at Christmas. Therefore, more money is being spent in restaurants, bars and at special events. Go figure…
Add my Amen to the bunch! For cryin’ out loud, they’re getting ahead of themselves. I just saw this on Tuesday, walking through a department store where they had the ladders out and were putting up the serious x-mas decorations.
Just because those decorations are up does NOT mean I am going to shop any earlier or spend any more money than I would have if you had waited on your decorations until after Turkey Day, or at least after Halloween! Cripes, I’m still putting up my Halloween stuff!