The Hallmark channel on TV has started showing their Christmas shows as of today! I think they are about a month early?
I noticed a few stores here setting up Christmas items during the first week of October! They sure ARE rushing things this year! They used to wait until after Halloween was over...
I went into two of the local stores on Thursday (before Halloween) and they were crammed with Christmas stuff. I simply do not understand rushing the seasons. I love Thanksgiving--such a nice holiday with good food and a non-denominational reason for being, and it's being crushed by tinsel, fake snow, and ho-ho-ho, not to mention opening stores at 8 p.m., 12 midnight, to get in on the "black Friday" money. As to the Christmas specials on the TV, we avoid them. We have several DVDs that we watch during the holiday season (which is between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, thank you very much!)and have a quiet, thankful holiday season, and wish all of you the same.
Some of the garden centres in the UK start their Christmas sections just after the children go back to school at the beginning of SEPTEMBER!!! What amuses me though are the piles and piles of Christmas delicacies in the supermarkets that have the "use-by dates" of the middle of November(or earlier) on them...how daft must some folk be...
It's the same here in Scotland as our garden centres begin putting out their Christmas stuff at the beginning of September. Why would anyone want to buy Christmas food that runs out before the 25th of December???? :-? I buy mine just a few days before and there's still plenty around so why buy early?
Christmas adverts started showing here just before Halloween. Now that it's over there is going to be an avalanche of them (snow pun hehe... ahem)
They was playing Christmas songs at store middle of Sept. Lot of fall decoration put on sale outside store
We are starting pre preparations to our Christmas decorating, shopping is done and now pruning shrubs to be lit in a couple weeks, we have to start early to make our Dec. 1st. lighting, only thing I do for T-day is hang my wreaths on my doors and they are up. For Thanksgiving dinner it's a dinner theater for us. I no longer go all out for one day events. Xmas is a month long for us and well worth our effort.
They want you to spend your money and the more the merrier for them. I agree, they are rushing the season and Thanksgiving gets left out. We got our Christmas club money at the end of September, everyone wants you out helping the economy.
