My local Walmart has had full blown Christmas inventory displayed since 1 Oct. Every time I enter the Garden Center I have to walk through the "Rise of the Inflatables" singing a medley of Xmas songs.

No wonder a number of their employees seem to be suffering PTSD.

Tons of places have Christmas stuff out not even Halloween...truly disgusting.

I love Christmas, any time of the year. This world needs more good tidings of great joy.

...wisdom!

Man a bunch of hum bugs up in here. I think I'm going to dress up as Santa for Halloween.

I hope you realize stores putting our Christmas merchandise this early had zero to do with good tidings of great joy and everything to do with marketing greed. To me the Christmas season starts the day after Thanksgiving. Anything more earlier cheapens the season.

^^THIS^^

I'm not particularly a fan of Christmas anyway. It's too commercialized. I hate feeling like I'm required to give everybody I know gifts to prove that I appreciate them. If I see something I want to give someone, I'm going to buy it right then and give it to them regardless of the date.

Give me Thanksgiving. I'd rather have the excuse to cook up a storm with folks I love and eat ourselves into a food coma.

Time to hang the lights too

Really? No, I didn't know that department stores were in the business of marketing and selling merchandise.
Thanks for the edification. IN65

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Heck, even Tractor Supply has had Christmas stuff out for a month.

All major holidays no longer hold their original meaning. Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Holloween, Fourth of July, Memorial Day are just commercial extra sales days for retail business. Got to make that extra dollar so Xmas (can't call it Christmas at Walmart) is celebrated starting Oct 1st.

I'm old. I remember when Christmas didn't hit the stores until the day after Thanksgiving. The true meaning of the holidays is lost. Christmas is for decorating your house with lights, reindeer, Santa Claus, and Frosty. It is for gift giving while the the most Precious Gift of all is lost among the commercials and sales.

I like it. It makes me think of Christmas Jesus a lot. Christmas baby Jesus is my favorite Jesus.

From a grumpy old man's perspective. I still see houses decorated, trees all light up, kids excited about the holiday and gifts, family getting together to over eat. Just cause your Christmas sucks, doesn't mean everyone else's does.

yep, and in Walmart's mind pool maintenance ends. Really ticks me off that I can't make one stop any more. Probably better margins in the Xmas stuff. I wait for the clearance sales at end of December to buy that stuff.

Reminds me of the fond, warm memories of Christmas.
Back To School sales in June not so much.

Where the hell do you get off saying my Christmas sucks?
If you could comprehend what you read you would see that the comment was about the commercialisation of Christmas and all the other hollidays. Not one word was mentioned that pertained to my personnel Christmas except that to mention that Christmas used to start after Thanksbiving.

You are one on the reasons I find the OT less and less of a good place to be. You just like to attack. I hope everyone can see just what you are.

I would like to honor 1Shot by leaving a blank space here � �.

I like Christmas!

Local home depot has a bunch of animated witches, skeletons, etc that cackle and screech at you when you walk by them, 30 feet away is all Christmas trees, lights and decorations......quite festive

UrbanFisher,

" I hope everyone can see just what you are."

And, don't you forget it !

LOL

They only lose their original meaning if you allow it to happen, who care what stores do? Make the holidays what you want it to be and let the rest do their own thing.

I saw a Christmas tree and light sale in July this year (not at Walmart, at Big Lots)

I do like the Christmas music they play at the store: much better than what they usually play at Wmart

They checked my receipt.

I'm all about Christmas but keep the ant killer on the shelf.

Did Baby Jesus sign off on it?

True

Not to mention, OK I'll mention it,
After Christmas sales. I mean, come on, Christmas is over already, but they advertise all the discounts and get there and nothing is really discounted.

Grandpa seriuosly you take that as a personal attack? I could make an attack over so many other things like your punctuation and the fact that it takes a lot of effort at times to even understand what the hell you posted! So when you were 9 Christmas was special, but after that everyone else�s Christmas is spoiled by commercialism? People younger than you don�t understand what holidays are about? I�m no spring chicken myself and commercialization has been the norm since I was a young kid. Even to this day, I like going to the toy sections of stores to see what this years big �toy� is for sale this year (my kids are grown, I don�t buy toys). So anyone younger than you can never enjoy what it was like at Christmas when you were 9? (The good ole days none of us will ever know?). Just because the stores are now setting up Christmas displays before Halloween...now it it has ruined the whole spirit of the holidays? Sure companies try to sell stuff to make money. These same companies employ people with families that buy gifts for thier children. I use to work retail and it was actually fun as an employee to prepare for Christmas. I have offered to make you a custom slingshot for you to try as a hobby...nope, you did that years ago and it sucks and you don�t want to do it again! This forum bought you a fricking car...only for it to p1ss you off when it broke down and you left it in a Walmart parking lot!! Grandpa you really need to not look at life as if humanity is just a big burden on your life. I assume most of your social interaction is on this forum...good luck buddy!

Just don't get started texting in CAPS,
Santa might read as your shouting.
And you know what that means.

there already supposed to be up all year long

Well somehow your reasoning is good. I like it too.

Well, most bible scholars agree that Christ was born in the late Summer or early Fall, so starting on October 1st is probably about right to start celebrating Crist's birth, aka Christmas.

yep, if you live in the ghetto

Hobby Lobby was putting their Christmas stuff out before Labor Day - even before they started putting the Halloween stuff out.

I like Christmas because I can change Santa to Satan and replace the baby Jesus with a salted ham.