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[turps]

James called at the supermarket on the way home from work, and they've got a display of Christmas selection boxes displayed already.

I love Christmas, but that's so wrong.

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[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!11111!!! This is so terribly, horribly WRONG!!!!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It is! I wish I could be shocked, but it seems it gets earlier each year :(

[stellamira]

I went grocery shopping today, and they had half of the Christmas candy already. I know that yesterday I was thinking how I should start making cards so it won't be so stressful making them and get presents and write SeSa as every year so far, but I wasn't serious!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I can understand people getting organised if they're hand making things. Because it does get hectic at that time of the year. But surely no one goes out and buys Christmas chocolate now? So wrong.

[stellamira]

Well, apparently some people do, or else it wouldn't be in the stores so early. I'm just surprised that there's no Halloween stuff yet (which is not celebrated in Germany, but that hasn't stopped the candy industry from producing Halloween-themed sweets for a few years now).

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That's very true. I'll have to keep an eye out and see what strange people actually buy it.

No doubt we'll have Halloween stuff soon. Bats next to candy canes. The retail world is nuts.

[purelyironic.livejournal.com]

OMG, I need to upload christmas icons!

(Maybe in November!)

I checked in our supermarket today. There were no christmas displays, but there was suspicious activity cleaning out room in the aisles. It's not going to take long. *shudders*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You had me going for a moment there!

No doubt that aisle will be full of Christmas stuff in a few days. It's insane.

[pensnest]

There should be a law! I wish we could take a leaf out of the Americans' book (now, there's a phrase I don't use very often!)... we should ban all Christmas stuff from shops until after Bonfire Night. I think that'd be fair.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I think that would be very fair. Allowing people plenty of time to get what they needed. Why anyone would get selection boxes now I don't know.

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

back in the day when I worked for Kmart, the first week of September my store would start putting the Christmas decorations up on the shelves for sale. We didn't even have the Halloween stuff up and they'd have aisles of tree and house decorations for Christmas. Used to annoy the heck out of me. I'd complain every morning at the store meeting. lol. They never listened, just like when they were playing NKOTB videos on a tv at the front of the store and I asked them to quit doing it. Gave me a look and said something about "big selling item" and "company is a tour sponsor." Pft. I know it was all a plot to make me insane.

and now I'll shut up and quit stealing comments. ;)

[pensnest]

Ah... you lot are as bad as us lot. Ah well. It does give us the chance to do the Christmas shopping in September... and, in my case, forget half of what I've bought and dash out frantically in December to get more. :-(

[silencegrenade.livejournal.com]

Or just use the Christmas decorations for the bonfire!
I'm inspired....where's that plastic tree and my matches......

[pensnest]

Sparkly bonfire! Hee...

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

OMG. They could at LEAST wait for Halloween!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You'd think so.

The whole thing annoys me so much.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Totally! I mean, I'm dying to dig out my Halloween stuff, but I'm holding off for the first of October. There's such a thing as rushing it.

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I've already had people telling me "Christmas is only 17 weeks away."


and I typed that 3 times as "Chris" instead of Christmas and it took me a few to realize what was wrong with it. lol.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Christmas is totally my favourite time of year, but I really don't want a count down yet. People are weird.

I wish Chris was 17 weeks away, that would mean he's coming!

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

Well I hope the poor man doesn't have to wait 17 weeks before he can come.

*hides*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

But if he did it would be very satisfying when it happened ;)

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

*hides*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

And now you've distracted me from my Christmas rant and made me think of a delayed gratification scene, that takes part on a pool table. Maybe not 17 weeks though. That would be cruel *g*

[silencegrenade.livejournal.com]

Goody!! That means I get to play Scrooge even earlier this year!
Woohoo! I mean HUMBUG.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You make a very gleeful Scrooge *g*

[silencegrenade.livejournal.com]

Bah!
If I had written that story I would have roasted that irritating child instead of the goose or what ever the bird was. Tiny Tim my arse. And his crutches would have made good fire wood.
Oh I'm getting into the spirit of Humbug again!
Joy!

[abishag.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but at our sister Oxfam shop in the county town, where they have no stroage space at all they had to put the Christmas cards out as soon as they arrived. And somebody bought some last week.

And working in a shop, loads of people tell me when buying cards in eg October, that they have started their present shopping for non-themed things way baack in Spring or Summer.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I can understand present buying. It makes sense to spread it out. If you're organised enough anyway, I've never been able to. It's the chocolate advent calendars that get me. Who needs them now?

[aotearoagal.livejournal.com]

I swear, it gets earlier each year. There doesn't seem to be much more than a month between Xmas ending and Easter beginning, and vice versa.

I know they want to cash in, but walking around the supermarket in September while listening to "Snoopy's Xmas" is just pushing it.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It really does get earlier.

I know they want to cash in, but walking around the supermarket in September while listening to "Snoopy's Xmas" is just pushing it.

You're right. I want to enjoy the end of my summer, not get launched right into Christmas.

[bigguns23.livejournal.com]

All of our Christmas stuff, trees ornaments etc are getting set up at work this week. If I had a dollar for every customer who complained about it being too early I would be rich. I think we all forgot about Halloween and Thanksgiving!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I can imagine the complaints you get. It makes you wonder why they put things out so early. There has to be some reason, unless it's just needing to make as much money as possible.

[goneplatinum.livejournal.com]

Oh the stores here are buzzing with Halloween candy and such, but no Christmas. Yet. It does seem to come earlier each year.

Does this mean the snow will come earlier, too?? *shudders*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any Halloween stuff yet, which makes the Christmas display even weirder.

Does this mean the snow will come earlier, too?

I hope not!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Dude, you know that I love Christmas as much as you do but I have to second that. It's so soon, man, too soon! Things are supposed to happen at the right time *sigh*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I've just been to that shop myself, and saw the display of advent calendars etc. Who needs an advent calendar already? There's months to go! :(

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

uh? *checks calendar* this is still only September, isn't it? *raises eyebrow*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It is September! The whole thing is just nuts!

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

So, so wrong! They should wait until after Halloween, imho. But it's funny because I was just having a conversation last week with a colleague that the Christmas stuff would be appearing soon. It makes it all so commercial :-( !

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It does make it commercial. I know a lot of people like to shop early, but I really think after Halloween is soon enough. I mean, who needs chocolate advent calendars now?

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

I mean, who needs chocolate advent calendars now?

Well, yes! But it's the mince pies with best before dates in October/November that really get me!