fifteen years ago early morning sales began the day after thanksgiving. later christmas magazines started appearing on supermarket newsstands around veterans' day. and now this in my inbox today - as well as the first christmas commercial of the season on tv tonight. i expect when i go out later this morning, still chewing my halloween gum, the stores will all be decked out for the holidays. after all, there's only fifty-five shopping days left!
3 comments:
we have "Christmas creep" here also but the only thing they put out are cookies and candies. it used to be that nothing appeared until December 8th. joanna
I remain in humbug mode until after Thanksgiving. Advent, after all, does mean "beginning", and it seems like it should be soon enough to begin the commercialism.
I can't stand the fact that so many people think the meaning of Christmas is presents.
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