Christmas comes but once a year?

[JimmyButtons]

FTVS has pointed out that Christmas decorations have already appeared in the shops. I saw some today (October 14th) in Marks & Spencers. Unbebloodylievable. Where was the first Xmas display of the year? And should we boycott shops that go Christmassy this early?

[sft42]

Never mind the turkey, just stuff xmas altogether....the most bloody depressing time of year where everyone who doesn't fit in with big buisnesses idea of a happy nuclear family and is willing to bankrupt themselve finacially and morally, is made to feel like a complete social pariah....this is usually rebutted with that amazing retort "Don't be such a scrooge"....yeah that'll do it just compared someone to a dickensian character everytime.........AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

See what you have started!

[coggles]

Give it a few weeks though and they'll have all the Valentines stuff out and if that give you the hump, there is always Easter to look forward to - surely that must be in the next month or so! It drives me nuts too!!!!!!!!

[flirty41]

On Saturday just gone, I went into my local Co-op Department Store where there was a Christmas tree adorned with decorations and flashing lights, surrounded by pretend gifts. And a town nearby is already in the throws of putting its street decorations up! I remember one year, on holiday in Dorset, there were Christmas displays in mid-September! It's crazy!

[jakesi]

I went to my local garden centre over a month ago and they where in the process of putting up the Christmas decorations. It was a loverly sunny day and 28C outside it just didn't seem right.Also you should have heard the customers moaning surely by now the retailers would understand and stop this,and WHO actually buys them this early?

[sez b]

christmas is a christian holiday and ment to be a time for rejoyce, i happen to think that it doesn't matter if decorations are being sold this time of year - the time soon flys by!!!!!!

[Allen Crisp]

Take my word for it, but if you go to Chapel Market in Islington, London in any August you'll see at least one stallholder displaying Christmas goods of some sort. It's damned depressing when it's your first day back after the summer holiday!

[allyfully]

I know, its ridiculous. I saw the first christmas advert on tv the other day for Boots. I'm considering boycotting the store just for their silly advertising schedule'.

[saffstar]

I absolutely luuuuuurve Christmas but having it rammed down your throat from late Summer ruins the whole thing in my opinion. How can something still feel so special and magical when it's stretched out to fill 25% of the year instead of the few days it's supposed to?

[Hellion]

In Lyndhurst in the New Forest until quite recently there was the Christmas Shop open all year round and pretty busy it often was too. Owners retired. There are also have Christmas shops in many towns in Texas USA.

[Yai]

A town near me put a sign up in early October that says 'Seasons Greetings' plus all the other tatty decorations and lights.

[colin salmon]

The earliest I have saw christmas decorations and a tree up was about 5 years ago in the superbowl in Derby and it was the end of September, when asking why they were so early with the christmas decorations I was told it was a management ploy to get us to spend more money. The hope was it would put us in a partying mood and we would all spend more.

[Znoober]

I was on holiday in Canada a few years ago and they were selling Christmas stuff... in the middle of August. (Just like in Deadbeat Holiday by Green Day.)

[terrorvicky]

i work in birthdays card shop and we put out our first stand of xmas cards mid to late september.