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.
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.
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.
You should see some shops in Australia, they decide to put up a small display for "Christmas in July" then the next thing you know there's no other holidays to protect that display from just becoming a growing Christmas display.... in August!
And it's so lazy because it's still the Christmas in July display at the core, with the actual December Christmas merch expanding out from the it, so there's ugly Christmas sweaters, roasts, and snow men decorations in the the middle, and board shorts, barbecues, thongs* and white boomers* after that.
(thongs are flip flops/sandals, white boomers are albino kangaroos, it's what Santa uses to pull the rusted out ute across the sand because he leaves the reindeer and sleigh for the northern hemisphere.....Australian Christmas is weird)
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.
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
Christmas starts in August. It's disgusting. Whenever I point these things out everyone thinks I hate Christmas. I really don't. Christmas joy can't last half a year it's unreasonable. To counter it i only put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas. I'm not gonna spend all day in Christmas land everywhere then coming home to it.
When I was a kid my family put up the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving (US), and took it down January 1, all as a family fun thing. I still do that.
They have year-round Christmas stores in some places. Just nothing but Christmas stuff for sale 365 days a year. I always wonder about people who go to such stores in April or May.
The only thing I could think of is people that film stuff, as if you want to make a Christmas episode or movie, you will have to film it way in advanced in order to release it on Christmas.
Only one solution. Halloween has done its part in keeping October secure. So NaNoWriMo and NNN need to achieve the same level of widespread corporate support that Halloween has.
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.
To be fair Halloween has did a good bit of creeping as well this year. Not a bad thing, I guess. I never am in the mood for it though I like horror movies and shit.
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...
It's meant to represent a failed attempt to resist evil; I needed some kind of sigil to ward off malign wholesomeness, and it occurred to me I could use this - on the side of evil.
70 replies
Oktober? They're selling Christmas stuff in August now
As with most things here, and everywhere else, you forgot "in the US".
Nope. Also in Germany.
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.
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.
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
Which holiday gets December?
That's late. Ours had shit in August
Lowe's has Christmas decorations out already. They've crossed the Halloween blockade.
From the pumpkin to turkey autumn shall be free
Free, free October!
Free free free November!
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.
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.
All Out For Autumn
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.
Not I if you've got a flamethrower!
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.
November? I went into Walmart on September 29 and the seasonal section was plastered with Christmas trees and other decorations.
Yea, they bliz krieged into September!
You should see some shops in Australia, they decide to put up a small display for "Christmas in July" then the next thing you know there's no other holidays to protect that display from just becoming a growing Christmas display.... in August!
And it's so lazy because it's still the Christmas in July display at the core, with the actual December Christmas merch expanding out from the it, so there's ugly Christmas sweaters, roasts, and snow men decorations in the the middle, and board shorts, barbecues, thongs* and white boomers* after that.
(thongs are flip flops/sandals, white boomers are albino kangaroos, it's what Santa uses to pull the rusted out ute across the sand because he leaves the reindeer and sleigh for the northern hemisphere.....Australian Christmas is weird)
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!)
Thanks, I try
Lol, everyone knows candy corn is harvested in July. The stuff you buy in the fall is imported from Peru
....right.
Do I, perchance, detect the slightest whiff of...sarcasm?
That shit stale as fuck now.
Christmas starts in August. It's disgusting. Whenever I point these things out everyone thinks I hate Christmas. I really don't. Christmas joy can't last half a year it's unreasonable. To counter it i only put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas. I'm not gonna spend all day in Christmas land everywhere then coming home to it.
When I was a kid my family put up the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving (US), and took it down January 1, all as a family fun thing. I still do that.
"only" 2 weeks? What is normal where you live? When we still had a tree (when I was a kid) it got put up on the 24th
Putting all that effort to decorate a tree for a day sounds ridiculous.
It stayed up for usually around 2 weeks after that, depending on how quickly it started losing lots of needles
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!
They have year-round Christmas stores in some places. Just nothing but Christmas stuff for sale 365 days a year. I always wonder about people who go to such stores in April or May.
The only thing I could think of is people that film stuff, as if you want to make a Christmas episode or movie, you will have to film it way in advanced in order to release it on Christmas.
I don't know that much filming goes on in Gladewater, Texas.
https://greenwoodchristmas.com/
And that is the tip of the bizarre iceberg.
https://www.mostlychristmas.com/christmasretailstores
November? It's late August in the UK.
Only one solution. Halloween has done its part in keeping October secure. So NaNoWriMo and NNN need to achieve the same level of widespread corporate support that Halloween has.
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.
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween.
I knew it. November is in cahoots with the Happy Holidays crowd.
To be fair Halloween has did a good bit of creeping as well this year. Not a bad thing, I guess. I never am in the mood for it though I like horror movies and shit.
Halloween isn't a holiday, it's a state of mind.
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...
Back! Back!!
First time seeing this symbol, what does it mean?
(Because it almost looks like an AI generated pentagram lmao)
https://lemmy.world/post/16514601
It's meant to represent a failed attempt to resist evil; I needed some kind of sigil to ward off malign wholesomeness, and it occurred to me I could use this - on the side of evil.
That's pretty cool, keep on keeping on with evil.
One does one's best, this time of year
oh that's good shit
How moronic. You can buy christmas stuff 2 months before christmas but not clothes in-season.
Xmas is for ignorant Christians.
Fuck xmas