Honestly some garden centres leave me speechless. :-x Ian and I visited one at the week-end and they've started on the Christmas display already!! They had Christmas Trees with presents under them, Christmas lights strung around and even Christmas crackers in their exhibit. Some folks haven't even been on their summer holidays and here they are pushing December the 25th on us!!! Neither wonder parents get so frustrated having to explian to their children that Santa won't be visiting for a looooong time yet. Ahhh I feel better now - just had to get that off my chest. :-D
Let me guess, they also had the Hallowe'en decorations up since May? Honestly I'm not at all surprised to hear this, we live in a nutty world nowadays.
Imagine having to start buying for the Holidays the January RIGHT after they are over? That's when they start selling it to the stores. I wait as long as I can to put out the Christmas stuff which is later than most...end of Sept. With planning, purchasing, receiving, pricing, displaying, and selling I feel like I am knee deep in Xmas all year. And go figure...I still love it?
I used to work in a hardware store that was more a general store than anything else. I worked in receiving and had to check everything in as it arrived. We used to get Christmas decorations in, in late May or early June and then have to find room to store them until Nov. My son works in the electronics dept at WalMart. He says the store overall is the same way, but they just haven't put it out yet. But the electronics dept dosn't have to gear up so much for the holidays. I think mostly what it is that the stores try to out do each other and the earliest one gets to the dollar first.
Good grief, talk about commercialistic greed. I'd boycott the place and write them a letter explaining precisely why.
I'm with you Eileen! It's all too commercial But you know it's the same everywhere! I've figured out that if I want a bathing suit I must buy it in January because if I wait until summer they will be sold out and the only thing in stock will be Halloween costumes and snowsuits! Deanna :-D
