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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oktober? They're selling Christmas stuff in August now

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the are gerrymandering the yards.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 13 points 1 year ago

Merrygandering

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

November? My local Home Depot was selling Christmas decorations on September 29th. There should be a law...

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I ever become the ruler of the world, I'm making a law that every month gets one major holiday, and that holiday shall be confined to that month.

That's 13 major holidays, plus New Years (and Leap Day) since I'd also be forcing everyone to use a better calendar.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Sounds sensible. What's your take on climate change? (Maybe I'll write you in on my US ballot.) 😀

A ballot cast for, "Make It Stop," is certainly the only truly sensible choice.

[–] glaber@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

With 6-day weeks (which have their own set of advantages) you can have 12 perfect 5-week months and an extra leap week that dissappears every 8 years

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That's late. Ours had shit in August

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lowe's has Christmas decorations out already. They've crossed the Halloween blockade.

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the pumpkin to turkey autumn shall be free

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Free, free October!
Free free free November!

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michael's too. Trees right next to the spooky section.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Craft stores make sense. You need to buy supplies before the season

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[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

After working retail for the holiday season as a younger person, and seeing how that started in October...then working in the beer industry, watching seasonal creep pushing those beer releases ever earlier (combined with the ramp up and logistics meaning that we were in full on "get ready for Oktoberfest" mode by mid-April...

I think I was just totally burnt out of any capacity for seasonal creep outrage a decade ago.

I saw a Christmas display while grocery shopping this week. Didn't even register as odd, let alone annoying. Which is saying something, coming from me, who tends to treat getting annoyed about random shit as a sort of relaxing pastime.

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[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Christmas decorations have been out since mid-September.

I fucking hate this. #TAKE BACK AUTUMN

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

In New Zealand, they put out the Christmas decorations as early as Spring.

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[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The shitty thing is that they take down the Halloween decorations to put them up like excuse me I fuckin need those - disposable stuff gets bought the month of, not 3 months out.I throw a Halloween party but I don't have room to put all that consumable stuff around my apartment for months in advance.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

November? I went into Walmart on September 29 and the seasonal section was plastered with Christmas trees and other decorations.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You should see some shops in Australia, they decide to put up a small display for "Christmas in July" then the next thing you know there's no other holidays to protect that display from just becoming a growing Christmas display.... in August!

And it's so lazy because it's still the Christmas in July display at the core, with the actual December Christmas merch expanding out from the it, so there's ugly Christmas sweaters, roasts, and snow men decorations in the the middle, and board shorts, barbecues, thongs* and white boomers* after that.

(thongs are flip flops/sandals, white boomers are albino kangaroos, it's what Santa uses to pull the rusted out ute across the sand because he leaves the reindeer and sleigh for the northern hemisphere.....Australian Christmas is weird)

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yea, they bliz krieged into September!

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People have been buying bags of candy since mid-August for October 31.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw a pallet of candy corn at Meijer at the end of July. I bought a bag and it turned out to be the most fresh and delicious bag of candy corn I've ever eaten. Then I realized that all the stale candy corn I usually buy around October and am disappointed in is just super old because it sat around for 3 months before being eaten. So I've decided from now on, I will only enjoy candy corn during peak candy corn harvest in late July early August.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You city boys make me sick!

Up here in God's country we don't go to no dad-blamed, fancy nancy Meijer store for our candy corn. Hell, no! We drive our trucks to the top of the Devil's Mountain of Screaming Insanity and Painful Death; then we hike fifty seven miles through the Unholy Swamp, cross the Bridge of Savage Disembowelment into the Forbidden Plains of Lugubrious Misery, and then, and only then, after proving our strength and manly worth, do we allow our Mommies to give us the candy corn THEY got at Meijer

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, that comment totally deserves a "what the f did I just read" (but in a good way!)

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 11 points 1 year ago

Lol, everyone knows candy corn is harvested in July. The stuff you buy in the fall is imported from Peru

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Do I, perchance, detect the slightest whiff of...sarcasm?

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[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Christmas starts in August. It's disgusting. Whenever I point these things out everyone thinks I hate Christmas. I really don't. Christmas joy can't last half a year it's unreasonable. To counter it i only put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas. I'm not gonna spend all day in Christmas land everywhere then coming home to it.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid my family put up the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving (US), and took it down January 1, all as a family fun thing. I still do that.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

Mariah Carey will have something to say about this!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's already Christmas ⛄🎁! I don't know what you're talking about.

Even now, their settlers colonize October. All self defense is valid.

Found the Venuzuelan!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They have year-round Christmas stores in some places. Just nothing but Christmas stuff for sale 365 days a year. I always wonder about people who go to such stores in April or May.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago
[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

November? It's late August in the UK.

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