So I'm in the local big box hardware store (rather than drive an extra ten minutes to the mom and pop...mea culpa, mea culpa,mea m?xima culpa) and I see this:
Now I loves me some Christmas; I stand with Washingtonian Irving who wrote ??Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart"; I look forward each year to staying up for midnight mass; heck, when I ran my own company I shut down every year from December 24th until January 5th; but Christmas decorations in the stores the first week of October is enough to make a grinch out of anyone.
We haven't even laid Halloween to rest, for cryin' out loud.
SWMBO would leave the tree up all year but for the Scrooge she lives with..........
Jim Frame, post: 450012, member: 10 wrote: We haven't even laid Halloween to rest, for cryin' out loud.
Laid to rest? It's still over 3 weeks away.
And aren't we going to have a Thanksgiving? That is/was one of the best holidays of all.
James Fleming, post: 450011, member: 136 wrote: So I'm in the local big box hardware store (rather than drive an extra ten minutes to the mom and pop...mea culpa, mea culpa,mea m?xima culpa) and I see this:
Now I loves me some Christmas; I stand with Washingtonian Irving who wrote ??Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart"; I look forward each year to staying up for midnight mass; heck, when I ran my own company I shut down every year from December 24th until January 5th; but Christmas decorations in the stores the first week of October is enough to make a grinch out of anyone.
I could not agree more! It is symbolic of only one thing - GREED.
They wouldn't put it out if there wasn't some demand for it, and that is real scary. Steve
sjc1989, post: 450032, member: 6718 wrote: They wouldn't put it out if there wasn't some demand for it, and that is real scary. Steve
Or does putting it out create the demand? I don??t know.
Don
Boo!
Thumbs down.
Dislike button.
Don Blameuser, post: 450033, member: 30 wrote: Or does putting it out create the demand? I don??t know.
I'm afraid a lot of people are easily influenced.
Anthropologists of future centuries (if humans survive that long) will catalog the Christmas potlatch among those strange customs practiced by primitive peoples. Halloween will be seen as equally strange.
The repulsive commercialization of Christmas... BLECCH.
Don Blameuser, post: 450033, member: 30 wrote: Or does putting it out create the demand? I don??t know.
I don't know either, but what's the difference? Sheeple will be sheeple.
Steve
Well, at least it shows Christmas Trees are not yet available as an App.
For me the Christmas season starts after Thanksgiving, I don't want to see or hear about it before that.
Last year I went outside on December 26, and my neighbor already had his Christmas decorations out.
While working as part of an early morning stock crew at a department store in the late 80's, we were getting the trees off the trucks beginning in August.
September 23. In El Paso. Chrismoween was in the air.
Happy HalloChristmas...
James Fleming, post: 450011, member: 136 wrote: but Christmas decorations in the stores the first week of October is enough to make a grinch out of anyone.
I believe I saw the first display of wrapping paper, etc. in Costco in late August.
James Fleming, post: 450011, member: 136 wrote: but Christmas decorations in the stores the first week of October is enough to make a grinch out of anyone.
I believe I saw the first display of wrapping paper, etc. in Costco in late August.
