What happened to the original Christmas shopping days?

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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It use to be day after Thanksgiving when we start shopping for Xmas.
Now the lights and displays go up Oct 1[SUP]st[/SUP] and this week JC Penney and Best Buy announced they will opening at 8am on Thanksgiving Day and Im pretty sure others will follow.
What happened to Black Friday??

Guy down the street leaves his hundreds of Xmas lights up all year round.
On July 4[SUP]th[/SUP] he changes all those lights to red,white and blue.
Halloween he changes to all orange lights.
Don’t know what color he is using on Thanksgiving Day.

Im planning to go to Universal Studios in Orlando the day before Thanksgiving(27[SUP]th[/SUP])of this month to get away from all this shopping madness and traffic.
 

We talk about this all the time.
Christmas is just a big 3 month shopping spree where we have people who can't afford stuff go into debt to buy crap they don't need.

When we were kids it was something special to look forward to, it wasn't until the day after Thanksgivings that you saw anything Christmasey.
 
Every year, it seems to start earlier for the Christmas shopping, and parents are encouraged to buy more expensive presents every year.
I remember getting a little suitcase filled with brushes and currycombs for grooming my Welsh Pony, and that was one of my favorite Christmas gifts, and I used them every day.
Now, kids expect iPhones, iPads, and the game boxes, Wii, or whatever they are called.

And now, the economy is in a downhill slide for many people, so the stores have to start earlier and earlier, in order for people to be able to get these expensive presents.
To add insult to injury, not only is Christmas a commercial season now, they also want to make it a non-religious holiday. So they take away all of the tradition from Christmas, but keep the commercial part.
 

It's so commercialized these days, it makes me sick. I liked it much better when after the Thanksgiving holiday was over, everyone looked forward to and prepared for Christmas. Costco had Halloween stuff in the stores a month before the holiday, and right alongside of it, was Christmas decorations. By the time the holiday comes, it feels like it's over already. It's all about the mighty dollar. :rolleyes: :dollar:
 
Frankly, Christmas has almost been ruined. I try very hard to just wait until a couple weeks before the day to do anything. Presents have been reserved for immediate family and everybody else gets a hug or hardy handshake.
 
Wouldn't it be neat to see a law passed that prohibited any Christmas advertising of any type until the day after Thanksgiving?

Of course, the companies would cry and the people working for those companies would complain and even the National Association of People Who Have Been Crushed on Black Friday would put up a fuss ... :(
 
I remember Thanksgiving was a holiday and every damn store was CLOSE and that included Sundays as well.
 
Hey, children of the revolution, rebel.
Choose to do things differently.

Christmas a non religious holiday? - show your defiance by going to church on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Over commercialised? - make your own presents. The family will be delighted :eek1:
Shops open too early? - shop on line whenever you please. Or not at all.
Serve non traditional food for a change. Eat fish.

On this issue you are in the box seat.
 
People can vote with their feet. Just because the stores are pushing as hard as they can, it doesn't mean we all have to go running to start shopping according to the stores' dictates. If people just hold off on shopping until a few weeks before Christmas, the stores will get the message.
 
We can definitely each decide how, or if, we celebrate the holidays. Pretty much, we don't celebrate them any more either, except for maybe a family dinner together somewhere, and we don't even always do that. With money being scarce everywhere, it doesn't make sense to be buying presents, or receiving any, either.
I like to make socks, or slippers, but I don't always get those made just in time for Christmas, so I just kind of send them for birthdays, or as I get them made.
So, we definitely don't do the commercial Christmas, at all, and more of the old kind of traditional one, usually.
 
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