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It's been used at least twice already in the last week or two.
It's still the middle of September for God's sake!😡😳😉
****s
What, Christmas?
The Christmas starts earlier every year threads start earlier every year 😉.
I bloody hate it myself, but we have a fairly static timeline now driven by retailers. Holiday season is over and so is ‘back to school’ so the supermarkets will be pushing celebrations and heroes out for the next week or two before they give over their seasonal aisles for the seemingly month-long Holloween push.
Loads of pubs will have Xmas trees in them by now, some will shriek that “it’s still sunny out and there’s a bloody Xmas tree up!” But Pub isn’t decorated, it’s just a bit by the door pushing for Xmas parties (because you know the office busybody will be in full on Crimbo party organising mode now).
STW is a sort of weird reflection of the real world, and like the real world this is only a slight blip for the terminally Xmas mad to get a bit excited about (it’s only 98 sleeps now I’m told) until they scuttle back under their rock for the big kick-off the day after Bonfire Night.
Isn’t it an X bomb these days?
Well at least this year there'll be no works do or secret santa or other such bilge.
My wife shopped at Lush last weekend. this was the bag she was given...
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Noticed a few Christmas chocs in our local supermarket. Cue me running around looking for mince pies with my kids in tow.
We were all disappointed, bloody mumble grumble teasing shops.
Local golf club advertising Christmas Dinner on Facebook.
My gran used to complain that Christmas comes earlier every year. Were that true, we'd have had an extra one by now.
That said, my local ASDA is selling advent calendars so she might have been on to something.
Noticed a few Christmas chocs in our local supermarket
Yeah, the Tesco near me has had Christmas stuff in their "seasonal" aisle for a while now. I don't know who's laying in the chocolate Santas in September but it must be worth Tesco's while to give it shelf room.
Having said that, if I happened upon an early stollen in Lidl I'd be on it like a tramp on chips!
I guess having Xmas stuff in supermarkets does help people on limited budgets (I do recognise the irony in that) in that they can spend a little at a time to have a lesser direct effect on finances.
Local golf club advertising Christmas Dinner on Facebook.
My god fancy planning your business by securing bookies.
My god fancy planning your business by securing bookies.
I might fancy it, what are the odds?
Christ on a bike
had a mince pie yesterday. gave me indigestion.
I might fancy it, what are the odds?
😂
Christ on a bike
A new one?
With tinsel round the handlebars?
That his Dad has been hiding in Grandma's shed for weeks and had to go and pick up at 11 p.m. in the rain and is now covered in bruises because Grandma doesn't have lights in her shed?
Yeah, the Tesco near me has had Christmas stuff in their “seasonal” aisle for a while now. I don’t know who’s laying in the chocolate Santas in September but it must be worth Tesco’s while to give it shelf room.
Having said that, if I happened upon an early stollen in Lidl I’d be on it like a tramp on chips
Sept is a difficult time for Seasonal aisles, they not selling BBQs anymore, the Kids are back in School so they're only stocking a few things in the Uniform section and it's too early for Plastic Pumpkins.
As luck would have it, Human's are generally greedy and have poor impulse control, so they can bang out a million plastic tubs of Chocs at 3x the margin if they sold them any other way in Sept to people 'stocking up' for Xmas, but most will consume at least some of them and replace them. It's not unknown for the same people who buy the same thing every week in Sept because they can't stop eating them. We're no better, my Wife loves Cheeslets, every year, about now she'll buy a couple of tubs because they'll be "half price" or something, they won't last a week unmolested.
As above, they'll all be packed away again in a few weeks since now Halloween is somehow a massive event, and it'll kicker off proper Nov 1st, a mere 8 weeks before the 'Big Day'.
it’s too early for Plastic Pumpkins.
Never to early for a bit of Siamese Dream! Great album!
Vulva for sale?
Noice, I'm off to Tesco, god bless um.
N America still has Halloween tat up - has had since the beginning of August. But come 1st November it'll be Thanksgiving/ Christmas tat. And it really is the tackiest tat you ever did see
I was in The Middle of Lidl, not to be outdone Aldi have The Isle of Shite, the other day, mince pies, Christmas chocolate, stolen, Christmas puddings. Shelves of them. I thought, ooh, a mince pie! Then I had a word with myself.
Ooooh! That C word! I thought we were talking about Boris again.
We have a Christmas Shop down here in Devon. That is all it does sells Christmas stuff 6 days a week fifty odd weeks of the year and appears to do very well.
Always look in the window as there is usually something interesting there and of course a sign saying how many days to Christmas.
Other than that the supermarkets seem to hang on until after Halloween and bonfire night before the Christmas stuff hits the shelves.
I must confess I snapped up a tub of Morello Cherries that were on offer for the Christmas cake last week.
Sept is a difficult time for Seasonal aisles, they not selling BBQs anymore, the Kids are back in School so they’re only stocking a few things in the Uniform section and it’s too early for Plastic Pumpkins.
This year maybe they can use the space to stockpile potatoes etc for Brexit.
Sainsbury’s Garthdee in Aberdeen had Christmas chocs and stuff in on the 26th of August. They no appear to be fully loaded with mince pies etc. I too had to have a word with myself about said mince pies.
Ooh god yes, Lidl was piled high with stollen, mince pies etc today.
At least the supermarkets haven't started playing endless loops of Christmas music yet! I'm sure that it would generate additional customers if a supermarket actively promoted not playing Christmas music for weeks on end - it would certainly get my custom.
Thankfully, I can easily avoid any temptation from the early advent of Christmas; I don’t like mince pies, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding...