Christmas season getting earlier and earlier

Retailers lost trillions during the pandemic.

People are depressed over war, an increase in violent crime, protesters blocking the streets, inflation, Earth's death throes, high rent and homelessness, shady changes in Medicare....

There's nothing wrong with an early Christmas, imo.

But I don't think it's any earlier this year than last year, or even the last 20 years.
 
I turned on my car radio while out driving this Halloween, and you know what they were playing?- -Frosty the Snowman! True story! I would have liked to have heard Danse Macabre or Night on Bald Mountain, sure. I'll keep zombies and werewolves out of my Manger scene if they leave my Halloween alone... šŸ˜¾

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debodun said:
A FB friend posted this photo of Lowes when he went in today. It's not even Halloween!

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It's annoying really, way too early. Especially for the ones of us who enjoys buying replacement Christmas items in the January sales. Which has been impossible in the last decade. ARGH!

Hubby and I had been doing Christmas decorations the same way since we moved in together.

Example for this year, Christmas Eve will be on Sunday. So, Friday 22 and Saturday 23 will be our decorating days aka putting up the tree and others.

Gifts purchases for Christmas always done from August to December. As mentioned earlier, replacement for broken or defective decorations, in January as well as late gifts which weren't available or out of stock prior to Christmas.

Never had children bugging us for months on end. Thankfully, we visited Santa's grotto. Spoke to him afterwards and got munchkins to write a list of what they wanted.

This year we're definitely getting a full turkey. So I'm buying this last minute (as before), stick it into Fridge and it's readily defrosted in time for 25 afternoon for cooking. Just right. I've begun stockpiling cranberry sauce and a brand new bottle of gin, early gift for me and daughter.

Then, it's the cocktail accessories such as juices, cherries and making sure there's plenty of ice.
 
There were Christmas commercials here and there before Hallowe'en on Tuesday. Since Wednesday, the only commercials are either extolling the virtues of this, that or the other pharmaceutical or exhorting us to buy, buy, buy and spend, spend, spend for Christmas.

Thanksgiving is the forgotten holiday, dammit, and it's my favorite one because after we've counted our blessings all we have to do is and cook and eat, then eat some more, then eat leftovers on Friday (and Saturday and Sunday and Monday...).
 

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