Halloween can start October 1.
Thanksgiving can start November 1.
Christmas can start the day after Thanksgiving.
End of discussion
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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And as someone from east Asia, Lunar New Year starts a month before. All these too early festivities are annoying the hell out of me.
I said end of discussion.
Lol. But for real. This is not my background, I would like the hear a non-western perspective. It's the same? Because of course it is. Right?
Same energy and rationale (on the business side), I've started to see Lunar New Year shit go up before Christmas. I hate it and it annoys me.
Costco has had Christmas stuff out since September 1st. I would like to slap whoever is doing this. I used to love Christmas! Now by the time it actually rolls around I'm sick and fucking tired of seeing all the Christmas shit everywhere for the last four fucking months. Fuck you!
Your Costco must be managed by a Filipino, I guess
I love Halloween. I start decorating in August.
But if this plan rolled out, it would hold back Christmas instead of letting it steamroll over the other holidays. I would totally support this.
Besides pumpkin shit, I tey to avoid buying anything holiday related. It's such a waste.
And it’s September. /c/mildlyinfuriating
They wouldn't do it if people weren't buying it
The stupid are so...stupid😒
People wouldn’t be buying it if they didn’t do it. This is on the stores
Lol what. If people weren't buying it, they wouldn't ship it out this early and stock it this early. Anybody with basic business sense would think, what if we put out xmas a week earlier than last year? And then it sells, so they do it again and again until the sales of xmas items don't cover the cost of liquidating the the summer items.
Why would they not want to maximize sales? If there's a demand, it's in their best interest to supply.
This sounds like you’re stuck in an ever expanding hellscape based on the inside of a Safeway
That's the premise of my new horror game.
Aisle 13 is the DMZ, where the dog food remains neutral. It waits in an uneasy peace as it awaits the day someone crosses the line...
Christmas should not start before Remembrance Day.
Does anyone else have no idea what Remembrance Day is?
In America it's called Veterans Day.
And while we dedicate the day to remembering all of our military veterans, the reason it occurs when it does (along with Remembrance Day and Armistice Day) is to mark the end of World War 1.
I don’t remember.
I have worse news, this is the display for next Christmas.
What's really crazy is that there are stores that specialize in Christmas stuff and are open year-round. Who's going to those in April?
You know that relative that doesn't buy anything that isn't at least 75% off? That's who.
it's weird. as long as stores in the uk have had halloween shit, this has been the norm. maybe 20 years ago there was basically nothing for halloween stuff in supermarkets etc and we went straight into christmas.
Gross
There’s currently a Glade commercial airing quite often that’s full on Christmas with Xmas music. Infuriating
But it’s never too early for the bunnies’ holiday huh?
You mean Ostara, one of the few holidays that kept its pagan name through the Christian culture-cide? Yes please. But first give us Samhain and Yule.
I’m just there for the bunnies…
Here in the Philippines, we're on full-blown Christmas decors since late August. Complement Halloween decor will be temporarily around a few weeks in late October. The Christmas decor is dismantled early February and replaced by Valentine's decors.
I find the complaints of other people on this thread weird, for me I see nothing wrong with early Christmas decorations, and your region is already too late anyway. But I do want to hear about why some people find this infuriating.
When department stores and commercially made decorations became a thing in the US it was "traditional" to start decorating the day after (American) Thanksgiving, the last week in November. A lot of people still go get a Christmas tree that day.
Now that the "Christmas season" creeps earlier every year, it is tradition to complain about it, note how it's just a capitalist gold digging opportunity and be annoyed by the Christmas music that usually accompanies the decorations.
Even though a lot of the US never sees snow, most of our decorations are snow related because Christmas replaced Winter Solstice as a holiday and is our opportunity to celebrate winter. It's strange seeing snow men on sheets of fake snow with snowflakes dangling and hearing music about going on sleigh rides and frosty the snow man when it is still 90 degrees out.
When Christmas finally arrives, it's not so much "Yay! Christmas!" as "FINALLY I don't have to listen to that goddamn jinglebell song until next year... well... 8 months anyway..."
In Australia, they start selling hot cross buns and Easter eggs the day after Christmas. All these “special occasions” are just an excuse to sell more stuff.
My local Ikea had christmas in the fabric and china section and then halloween by the plants and decorations.
Illegal! Illegal Xmas! Booo!
The AM/PM down the street has had Halloween decor up since Sept 2.
Well, I did join Spooky Halloween Horror Memes as soon as I saw it, and have been fully on board with it being spooky season for weeks