It comes earlier every year

[Setra]

So I walked into a Kroger (A grocery store) yesterday and guess what?

It was already starting to get ready for Christmas!

It even had a sign that read "110 days til Christmas" or something close to that..

I really hope it's just that one store.

[Mr. Mud]

Different story up here. It's only Halloween season, with a tad of Thanksgiving here and there... But man, this year flew.

[Perenelle]

The stores are getting out a bunch of Halloween stuff, but that's all I've seen.

[KilltheToy]

Welcome to retail, where the calendar makes no sense at all.

My mom once worked at Foleys (a reigonal department store that was bought out by Macy's) as the person in charge of decorating the store. She had to set up the Christmas displays about this time of year.

If that Kroger is setting up Christmas, there's a good chance my local Kroger is too.

[Totally Guy]

The Costco warehouse I shop at always gets their Christmas stuff out around August. But of course they're intending to sell it to other businesses so they've got to sell it before the world gets Christmassy.

New year is when the Easter Eggs come out!

I've got to do this... I've got to go into shops to find a Valentines day card about now. To see if it can be done.

What should be on my new 2010 calendar? Scenery? Comedy? Cars? Busty Babes? Oh the choices!

[Elfin]

The retail calendar really makes no sense.
At all.

[SurlySeraph]

Summer is hardly even over. Why on Earth would you start preparing for a holiday placed so as to relieve the tedium and depression of winter now?

[Castaras]

So I walked into a Kroger (A grocery store) yesterday and guess what?

It was already starting to get ready for Christmas!

It even had a sign that read "110 days til Christmas" or something close to that..

I really hope it's just that one store.

I've seen christmas signs beginning of august.

I win.

[Haruki-kun]

So I walked into a Kroger (A grocery store) yesterday and guess what?

It was already starting to get ready for Christmas!

It even had a sign that read "110 days til Christmas" or something close to that..

I really hope it's just that one store.

Nearly a third of a year. Nice.

[KuReshtin]

I've already written my Christmas cards. They're sitting on my kitchen table, ready to be sent out.

Ok, so I only did it as a joke when my mom was here for a visit, to freak her out, but still. They're ready to be sent out.
I'm thinking mid-October will be a good date to send them. :smallcool:

[Lolzords]

What should be on my new 2010 calendar? Scenery? Comedy? Cars? Busty Babes? Oh the choices!

All of the above, if do-able.

[Trog]

You think you've got it bad? Try making the ads sometime. You start to get your Christmas artwork for the season sometimes as early as August. Ninety plus degrees out and every year I'd drop the art magazines on the artist's desks and say "Christmas Art is here" to a general chorus of "WTF?!"

[Lord Herman]

There's only one thing for it, then. We'll have to move Christmas to the 25th of September.

[Vmag]

Summer is hardly even over. Why on Earth would you start preparing for a holiday placed so as to relieve the tedium and depression of winter now?
Christmases in the tropics weren't really ones for sleigh-bells in the snow. I doubt there's much snow cover in the جزيرة عربية that time of year anyways, so, thanks for the temperate-centrism.

[DraPrime]

The store that I'm working at hasn't yet done Christmas, but we did have Halloween stuff up in August. No Thanksgiving stuff yet, thank god.

[skywalker]

Different story up here. It's only Halloween season, with a tad of Thanksgiving here and there... But man, this year flew.

Yes. Yes it did. All the good parts are gone except for Christmas. Bring it as fast as possible, please.


Christmases in the tropics weren't really ones for sleigh-bells in the snow. I doubt there's much snow cover in the جزيرة عربية that time of year anyways, so, thanks for the temperate-centrism.

Translates as: "Arabian Peninsula" if you're curious. Not touching the rest of the discussion with a ten-foot pole.

[Vmag]

Translates as: "Arabian Peninsula" if you're curious. Not touching the rest of the discussion with a ten-foot pole.

I'm just saying. A large population of the holiday's celebrators may live in areas snowy at that time of year, but the location of the holiday's origin sure isn't.

I know, I know, "commercialism takes precedence" and all that, but speaking purely geographically.

[Flame of Anor]

There's only one thing for it, then. We'll have to move Christmas to the 25th of September.

Ah, so that the ads would start on the 25th of December the previous year? Good thinking.

[skywalker]

I'm just saying. A large population of the holiday's celebrators may live in areas snowy at that time of year, but the location of the holiday's origin sure isn't.

This is way too hard to discuss within the rules.

[Ichneumon]

This is way too hard to discuss within the rules.

Why would it be? Surely, no one's celebration of Christmas is a religious activity? :smallwink:

[Vizen]

Not for me! I celebrate Christmas because I can. Its a holiday, why not celebrate it?

Any excuse for a holiday is a good excuse for me.

[Anuan]

It shouldn't be that hard to discuss within rules.
In fact, quite easy; it is a chosen time to celebrate the birth of someone who may or may not have existed, but is a celebration nonetheless. However, the date chosen has different climates in different areas. Where this person may have been born and such, it's pretty damn warm. Here in Australia, it is also pretty damn warm.
Hence the Aussie tradition of displaying Santa in trunks and a fuzzy hat on the beach, usually with a bottle of beer.

He's also often shown in a sleigh pulled by kangaroos :smallbiggrin:

Edit: Does Vizen celebrate Chinese New Year, Saints Feasts and Equinox holidays? :smalltongue:

[Fiendish_Dire_Moose]

So I walked into a Kroger (A grocery store) yesterday and guess what?

It was already starting to get ready for Christmas!

It even had a sign that read "110 days til Christmas" or something close to that..

I really hope it's just that one store.

Don't you just love capitalism?

[Fiendish_Dire_Moose]

It shouldn't be that hard to discuss within rules.
In fact, quite easy; it is a chosen time to celebrate the birth of someone who may or may not have existed, but is a celebration nonetheless. However, the date chosen has different climates in different areas. Where this person may have been born and such, it's pretty damn warm. Here in Australia, it is also pretty damn warm.
Hence the Aussie tradition of displaying Santa in trunks and a fuzzy hat on the beach, usually with a bottle of beer.

He's also often shown in a sleigh pulled by kangaroos :smallbiggrin:

Edit: Does Vizen celebrate Chinese New Year, Saints Feasts and Equinox holidays? :smalltongue:
Exactly, what's wrong with discussing the All Father leaving presents for me?
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Yes I know he's only got one eye.


EDIT: Whoops, double posty.

[Totally Guy]

Christmas was largely ignored until Charles Dickens did A Christmas Carol.

[Kobold-Bard]

Ugh, I'm glad I don't work in a card shop anymore. Are shop was too small to warrant getting any Halloween stuff, so I got hired in September as temporary season staff, and we were already putting Christmas stuff up. It was insanity, people actually complained because we'd had to store some of our usual stuff (hen/stag nights, obscure holidays etc.) to make room for it.

I hate retail work.

[Pika...]

Ugh, I'm glad I don't work in a card shop anymore. Are shop was too small to warrant getting any Halloween stuff, so I got hired in September as temporary season staff, and we were already putting Christmas stuff up. It was insanity, people actually complained because we'd had to store some of our usual stuff (hen/stag nights, obscure holidays etc.) to make room for it.

I hate retail work.

Isn't a card like the laziest, cheapest gift you could get someone?

That, or socks?

[Totally Guy]

Isn't a card like the laziest, cheapest gift you could get someone?

That, or socks?

I get everyone a Christmas card.

Presents are for friends and loved ones. I'll not get a gift for someone I don't like.

[Tharivol123]

I do not miss retail one bit. My last year working in the evil of retail I got my department's Christmas display in late July and was told to put it up in August. I fought it with my supervisor and store manager, using every delaying tactic I could come up with until early September. It took a visit by the district manager the next day for me to actually do it, and I hated every minute of it.

[Bouregard]

As I like christmas food pretty much there is no problem for me...

The only issue is that most of that stuff will not last till december24, so where is the point in buying it now?

[skywalker]

Don't you just love capitalism?

Yes, I do.

I also love retail. I love watching merchandise turn into money.

[Bellepheron]

I agree, they push it in before the leaves have fallen. In holland, we have a holiday which comes roughly a month before christmas, and often we have santa in stores before that holiday has even started (which also has a guy like santa).

I always feel very sorry for that guy....