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Oktober? They're selling Christmas stuff in August now
As with most things here, and everywhere else, you forgot "in the US".
I feel like the qualifier is not necessary for this statement. Not everything needs that level of classification lmao. It reaches "I use arch BTW" levels after a while.
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Looks like the are gerrymandering the yards.
Merrygandering
November? My local Home Depot was selling Christmas decorations on September 29th. There should be a law...
If I ever become the ruler of the world, I'm making a law that every month gets one major holiday, and that holiday shall be confined to that month.
That's 13 major holidays, plus New Years (and Leap Day) since I'd also be forcing everyone to use a better calendar.
'Sounds sensible. What's your take on climate change? (Maybe I'll write you in on my US ballot.) 😀
A ballot cast for, "Make It Stop," is certainly the only truly sensible choice.
Which holiday gets December?
With 6-day weeks (which have their own set of advantages) you can have 12 perfect 5-week months and an extra leap week that dissappears every 8 years
That's late. Ours had shit in August
Lowe's has Christmas decorations out already. They've crossed the Halloween blockade.
Michael's too. Trees right next to the spooky section.
Craft stores make sense. You need to buy supplies before the season
I saw no turkey decorations.
All Out For Autumn
After working retail for the holiday season as a younger person, and seeing how that started in October...then working in the beer industry, watching seasonal creep pushing those beer releases ever earlier (combined with the ramp up and logistics meaning that we were in full on "get ready for Oktoberfest" mode by mid-April...
I think I was just totally burnt out of any capacity for seasonal creep outrage a decade ago.
I saw a Christmas display while grocery shopping this week. Didn't even register as odd, let alone annoying. Which is saying something, coming from me, who tends to treat getting annoyed about random shit as a sort of relaxing pastime.
It's been like that for years in the UK where Halloween isn't such a big thing. It's usually the last week of August for most shops to start getting stuff out.
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The shitty thing is that they take down the Halloween decorations to put them up like excuse me I fuckin need those - disposable stuff gets bought the month of, not 3 months out.I throw a Halloween party but I don't have room to put all that consumable stuff around my apartment for months in advance.
Christmas decorations have been out since mid-September.
I fucking hate this. #TAKE BACK AUTUMN
In New Zealand, they put out the Christmas decorations as early as Spring.
People have been buying bags of candy since mid-August for October 31.
I saw a pallet of candy corn at Meijer at the end of July. I bought a bag and it turned out to be the most fresh and delicious bag of candy corn I've ever eaten. Then I realized that all the stale candy corn I usually buy around October and am disappointed in is just super old because it sat around for 3 months before being eaten. So I've decided from now on, I will only enjoy candy corn during peak candy corn harvest in late July early August.
You city boys make me sick!
Up here in God's country we don't go to no dad-blamed, fancy nancy Meijer store for our candy corn. Hell, no! We drive our trucks to the top of the Devil's Mountain of Screaming Insanity and Painful Death; then we hike fifty seven miles through the Unholy Swamp, cross the Bridge of Savage Disembowelment into the Forbidden Plains of Lugubrious Misery, and then, and only then, after proving our strength and manly worth, do we allow our Mommies to give us the candy corn THEY got at Meijer
I enjoyed this immensely.
Yes, that comment totally deserves a "what the f did I just read" (but in a good way!)
I read it out loud twice, thanks
Thanks, I try
Lol, everyone knows candy corn is harvested in July. The stuff you buy in the fall is imported from Peru
for October 31
....right.
Do I, perchance, detect the slightest whiff of...sarcasm?
That shit stale as fuck now.
Mariah Carey will have something to say about this!
It's already Christmas ⛄🎁! I don't know what you're talking about.
Even now, their settlers colonize October. All self defense is valid.
Found the Venuzuelan!
IMO, Halloween needs to extend into November. The US has Thanksgiving, but it might as well be mini-Christmas at this point. Halloween needs to establish a bulwark.
November? It's late August in the UK.
Honestly Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night need to stop fighting each other and unite to drive xmas back
I knew it. November is in cahoots with the Happy Holidays crowd.
I can feel it, a change in the air, the water runs colder... It's October. But it feels like it's about to be Christmas. I can't help but notice the sensation, warmth yet fridged, the desire for a cup of cider by a warm fire... Even stores have started putting up winter light displays... Do not tell me the old magic has lost it's affect on you young ones, close your eyes, breath deep of Christmas Magic...
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November? I went into Walmart on September 29 and the seasonal section was plastered with Christmas trees and other decorations.
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