"I'm not sure if this counts as Christmas creep, but it's definitely pre-Thanksgiving."
Scandalous.
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]]>ITS A WORTHLESS PIECE OF COMPRESSED DINOSAUR!
]]>I just wonder when the Christmas stuff will be out before the Halloween holiday.
]]>Exactly , I'm trying to figure out when it's OK for stores to start advertising Christmas. If the shopping season starts the day after Thanksgiving wouldn't the buildup for it start weeks before that?
]]>Workmen started installing trees in the median
of Park Ave in NYC this morking, and they started
early enough to wake me up!
For the most part he is right. From what I understand most items where hard to find. No Ebay, No over night, etc.
]]>Claims that the last Thursday in November was established as the official holiday by President Lincoln on October 3, 1863.
This one:
Says that Congress declared it in 1941.
Another article I read, which unfortunately now I cannot find, says that the declaration by Lincoln only made it "standard practice, but not law" whereas the Congressional declaration in 1941 (during which FDR was president) made it law.
]]>i almost blew my own brains out while working at a store that started playing christmas music in october. to this day, even hearing a song by bing crosby makes me bang my head against the wall repeatedly.
]]>Just like I'm ok with christmas creep in stores like Costco, where it is for business owners to get their stuff to be ready to set up *their* business come time, or in stores like Tuesday Morning where, lets face it, they're just weird (but I love 'em).
Target, Walmart, Fred Meyer, otoh, yeah, I didn't need to see christmas ornaments last month.
]]>One century later and Christmas creep starts in September! In four hundred years, if my math is correct, it'll start in January.
Just think, year-round Christmas ads, songs, and products (but not gifts) - yikes.
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