Oktober? They're selling Christmas stuff in August now

Looks like the are gerrymandering the yards.

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.

That's late. Ours had shit in August

From the pumpkin to turkey autumn shall be free

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

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.

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

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)

Yea, they bliz krieged into September!

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.

for October 31

....right.

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.

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

Found the Venuzuelan!

The only thing I could think of is people that film stuff, as if you want to make a Christmas episode or movie, you will have to film it way in advanced in order to release it on Christmas.