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.. and found one of the department stores already had all of their Christmas trees and decorations set up.

So, my questions to you:

Did you enjoy all the candy you got from Halloween?
How was your turkey at Thanksgiving?
Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?

so come oct 31 all the kids will be doing mall trick or treating to the sound of christmas carols?

thats just wrong.

we need to go back to the old days when christmas decorations didnt go up until after thanksgiving was over. and to when the christmas season didnt end at noon on dec 25th but went through to new years day.

we need to go back to the old days when christmas decorations didnt go up until after thanksgiving was over. and to when the christmas season didnt end at noon on dec 25th but went through to new years day.

Heartily seconded.

I know this isn't all that fashionable, but I like it getting all Christmasy earlier. I know its all just to make more money, but its kinda nice, especially as the days are getting shorter.

nuts

.. and found one of the department stores already had all of their Christmas trees and decorations set up.

So, my questions to you:

Did you enjoy all the candy you got from Halloween?
How was your turkey at Thanksgiving?
Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?


those store's servers have their times off again. they're timewarping.

we need to go back to the old days when christmas decorations didnt go up until after thanksgiving was over. and to when the christmas season didnt end at noon on dec 25th but went through to new years day.Heartily seconded.

Thirded.

Your shops waited till October? In the UK i've seen some christmas stuff being sold as early as late august this year, and as soon at christmas is over, if not earlier, they will start selling Easter eggs.

I do wonder why some stores think Christmas consumes a quarter of the year.

Is it because they believe that if people think it's Christmas, they'll spend more? Do they hope they'll buy their christmas shopping so early that come Christmas their kids will want something entirely different, and they'll need to go shopping for a second round?

It's all very confusing. Although one store here won out by putting up Christmas decorations at the end of August. I guess it's always Christmas these days. Awesome!

Here we have a special kind of fizzy soft drink that is called Julmust (Christmas must, it's not really must though) during fall and winter, Påskmust (Easter must) during spring and Sommarmust (Summer must) during summer. A fine all year round holiday tradition, just switch the label.

Holidays are like some topics here on NSG, the same old shit pops up again at regular intervals. Can't someone come up with new holidays, we've already done the old ones to death.

Your shops waited till October? In the UK i've seen some christmas stuff being sold as early as late august this year, and as soon at christmas is over, if not earlier, they will start selling Easter eggs.

Yeas, at the Oxfam shop I work at there have been Christmassy things sing the beginning of August.

Soon Wizzard's dream will come true...

Holidays are like some topics here on NSG, the same old shit pops up again at regular intervals. Can't someone come up with new holidays, we've already done the old ones to death.

Well thanks to multiculturism I can also celebrate Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah and more! :D

Here in the Eighth Circle of Hell, it's very common to see Xmas decorations in stores right after Labor Day and a few places in August...maybe a few "Christmas in July" things...I'm thinking that, pretty soon, Christmas stuff will go up immediately after the 4th of July.

Also, pity my poor soon-to-be-broke wife. My birthday is November 11th. Or anniversary is December 2nd. Throw in Christmas, and she's out of disposable income until April of next year.

(Not that I'm greedy or anything - she just does very well for me, and when I asked her not to worry about my brithday, well...she listened about as well as Rocco, my 25-pound dumb-as-a-rock Siamese cat...)

My birthday is November 11th. |

Ooh, snap!


A birth date with wide significance and which stays the same which ever side of the pond you're on. :)

.. and found one of the department stores already had all of their Christmas trees and decorations set up.

So, my questions to you:

Did you enjoy all the candy you got from Halloween?
How was your turkey at Thanksgiving?
Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?


WTF!

Most stores are running in the red until the Christmas season begins, at which point the orgy of buying and consumerism pushes them over into the black so the sun can rise again. Without this ritual, summer could never return, and nature would languish within eternal winter. Then the wolves descend from the hills into the villages, the moon becomes as blood and all the tribes and clans of mankind set to destroying each other in the final war.

So quit your bitching and buy, or else.

Wow, it's not even Canadian Thanksgiving, yet. That's not right.

I figure any date after Nov 11 is fine, but don't mess with Rememberance/Veterans Day.

I don't know, maybe we'll just end up having it year round...

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I'd like to appreciate the association of my birthday (the 28th) with Halloween in peace, thankyouverymuch. I have family members who swear I'm a changeling because of my birthday...

Most stores are running in the red until the Christmas season begins, at which point the orgy of buying and consumerism pushes them over into the black so the sun can rise again. Without this ritual, summer could never return, and nature would languish within eternal winter. Then the wolves descend from the hills into the villages, the moon becomes as blood and all the tribes and clans of mankind set to destroying each other in the final war.

So quit your bitching and buy, or else.

What if you're poor? Are you excused?

What if you're poor? Are you excused?

No. The poor and defenseless are always the first to die in the crossfire, or be enslaved to fight for the opposing sides.

So sell your children and buy buy buy!

.. and found one of the department stores already had all of their Christmas trees and decorations set up.

So, my questions to you:

Did you enjoy all the candy you got from Halloween?
How was your turkey at Thanksgiving?
Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?


Having worked at the post office for several years....The J. C. Penny Christmas catalog always is delivered July 5.

The economics of it is everyone has a certain amount of discretionary money in each paycheck. If a business waits until Thanksgiving that means the customer is going to spend the discretionary money from only two or four (depending how often one is paid) on Christmas gifts. If a business can get people started early there will be that many more paychecks and that much more money spent on Christmas rather than eating out or movies or vacations or other nonessential buying.

Well thanks to multiculturism I can also celebrate Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah and more! :D

I've already received the first flag waving email about the post office issuing stamps for people who celebrate Eid. That's also become a tradition.

.. and found one of the department stores already had all of their Christmas trees and decorations set up.

So, my questions to you:

Did you enjoy all the candy you got from Halloween?
How was your turkey at Thanksgiving?
Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?


I don't need to get ready for Christmas the first week of October in the "decorating" sense -- but I usually have all my shopping done by October 31.

Long live teh Interwebs!

I know this isn't all that fashionable, but I like it getting all Christmasy earlier. I know its all just to make more money, but its kinda nice, especially as the days are getting shorter.

Who the fuck decided we needed to get ready for Christmas in the first week of October?

Hmmm ....
Does the term "Keep America rolling" have any particular resonance?

Thirded.

Bahhh humbug.

Complaints about Christmas getting earlier happen every year happen every year at roughly the same time. You'd think people would stop acting like it's a new thing.

So when are we starting the traditional NSG Office party? Monday?