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Halloween duvet sets. WTF?

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notedbiscuits · 30/08/2024 16:12

Saw in Home Bargains today. Took no notice of sizes or prices.

This is worse than Xmas bedding and cushions.

I think having themed bedding is pointless and besides you want a Xmas free room to chill out

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Disturbia81 · 31/08/2024 14:03

ChishiyaBat · 31/08/2024 12:52

I don't have halloween bedding, but I want it now, i'm going to have a browse now🎃

Yes this thread has made me buy some 😂

BlueEyedLeucy · 31/08/2024 13:57

Objectionhearsayspeculation · 31/08/2024 11:25

You are my "people" We (DDs and I) actually made our own Besoms and DH dutifully pretends not to notice them and the other "decorations" we "forget to take down".
We are loving the newer bits and bobs coming out each year

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Haha, it does get some curious comments from folk who’ve never visited, but I like it!

Halloween duvet sets. WTF?
ChishiyaBat · 31/08/2024 12:52

I don't have halloween bedding, but I want it now, i'm going to have a browse now🎃

MissyMoz · 31/08/2024 12:44

I have halloween bedding on all year round.

I do most of my normal homedecor shopping now!

Halloween duvet sets. WTF?
Rubyupbeat · 31/08/2024 12:42

@Misthios I was actually saying the same about Wall.e too.
The crap, the laziness, never having to move, it all comes to you and the just moving to another area when yours becomes a mess, kinda scary in a way.

LadyGrinningSoul8517 · 31/08/2024 12:40

Who cares?
Don't like it, don't buy it?
The ones that do, crack on.

It really doesn't affect you.

SandandSky · 31/08/2024 12:38

Hufflemuff · 31/08/2024 11:55

You're right... we should burn it all and just buy more fucking grey.

With accents of greige and sage-grey.

I read somewhere they are calling it “millennial grey” now and thought that was too funny

Needmorelego · 31/08/2024 12:03

@Mynewsofa apologies. Your sentence was a bit confusing 🙂

Hufflemuff · 31/08/2024 11:55

You're right... we should burn it all and just buy more fucking grey.

With accents of greige and sage-grey.

Mynewsofa · 31/08/2024 11:39

Needmorelego · 31/08/2024 11:14

@Mynewsofa errr Halloween has not just become a "thing" in the UK. Most of the traditions (that people frequently blame America for) are Scottish (and Irish).

Err. that was the point of my post.

It said:

"You don't realise Halloween has just become a 'thing' in the UK... except it has been for lots of people for years and posters just like to complain about things other people do"

SuffolkUnicorn · 31/08/2024 11:30

I prefer Halloween to Christmas

SuffolkUnicorn · 31/08/2024 11:29

ShamblesRock · 30/08/2024 16:27

Like this? It is very autumnal still.

I’ve got that 😂

SandandSky · 31/08/2024 11:27

I got some lovely Halloween bedding for my DCs bedroom the other day and I can guarantee you it will be on their beds for most of the year because it’s their absolute favourite. One DC had a Halloween birthday party in summer

Objectionhearsayspeculation · 31/08/2024 11:25

BlueEyedLeucy · 30/08/2024 16:27

We have ‘Halloween-y’ stuff in our home all year round! Granted, it’s part of a general pagan vibe, so there may be a spider web rug from tkmaxx, then an expensive handmade besom hanging by the door, or a hag stone hanging by the keys.

You are my "people" We (DDs and I) actually made our own Besoms and DH dutifully pretends not to notice them and the other "decorations" we "forget to take down".
We are loving the newer bits and bobs coming out each year

Needmorelego · 31/08/2024 11:23

@BabaYetu this is a good one.

Halloween duvet sets. WTF?
BabaYetu · 31/08/2024 11:21

SummerSplashing · 30/08/2024 23:59

@Needmorelego

mot wishing to be maths police but I'm sure you meant to say 1/4 of the year🫢

i need to win the lottery I NEED more Lego, Halloween for sure!!

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I just finished my latest Lego build and am browsing wistfully. Maybe seasonal Lego is what I need

Prinnny · 31/08/2024 11:15

Some people are just joyless.

Questioning the need for seasonal bedding/decor is like asking why you would want a Louis Vuitton neverfull when you can use an Aldi bag for life.

Some people just like nice things, if you don’t then that’s fine, you do you but leave us alone in our nice cosy autumnal homes!

Needmorelego · 31/08/2024 11:14

@Mynewsofa errr Halloween has not just become a "thing" in the UK. Most of the traditions (that people frequently blame America for) are Scottish (and Irish).

BloodyWolves · 31/08/2024 11:11

And we’ll have Halloween on Christmas…

I have Halloween decorations up all year long. I have a stack of three light up pumpkins in my bathroom along with a witches boot tea light holder. Various signs with slogans such as ‘witches way’ up amongst other little trinkets. Strangely my three children all have a natural Halloween appreciation too! It must be genetic 😆🎃💀

Mynewsofa · 31/08/2024 11:06

EnjoyingTheSilence · 31/08/2024 09:50

As long as you reuse stuff I don’t see a problem. I buy new Halloween decorations when I see something fun, but I still use decorations that I bought over 25 years ago.

You don't realise that Halloween has only just become a 'thing' in the UK.

Except it has been for lots of people for years and posters just like to complain about things that other people do.

Give it a few weeks and there'll be the annual complaints of how Christmas is so commercialised, people spend too much and starts earlier every year ad nauseum.

Which has been a complaint for my entire lifespan of almost 50 years. And before.

Dickens wrote in 1843 in a Christmas Carol about the commercialisation of Christmas and people wasting 'money on frivolities'.

Somehow, some people seem to think there's an astonishing new problematic social phenomenon that they've just realised.

Every. Year.

Fizbosshoes · 31/08/2024 11:03

On a very slightly related note I'm more offended by "teddy bear" bedding sets and thick fleecy ones. Sheets as well! I feel sweaty just looking at them....🤣🤣and how on earth do you get the whole set in the washing machine?!

EnjoyingTheSilence · 31/08/2024 09:50

As long as you reuse stuff I don’t see a problem. I buy new Halloween decorations when I see something fun, but I still use decorations that I bought over 25 years ago.

Fizbosshoes · 31/08/2024 09:29

I wouldn't buy Christmas or Halloween duvet sets. I have a pair of Christmas pjs, but I wear them all year round (it's cotton tshirt and long trousers) and a Christmas jumper

But they wouldn't make and sell stuff if people didn't buy it🤷‍♀️

JMSA · 31/08/2024 09:25

LadyKenya · 30/08/2024 16:18

It is a good thing that buying all of these things is not mandatory. Each to their own, I say😒.

Exactly!

Ponoka7 · 31/08/2024 09:24

merrymaryquitecontrary · 30/08/2024 23:37

I didn't know that Halloween interior design was a thing until last year I was in the queue in Primark and overheard two women discussing what they were buying for "Halloween decor". It included duvet covers, throws, bathmats and various pumpkin shaped ceramic jars. One asked the other where she stored the Halloween stuff when she changed over for the christmas decor, and she replied that she just gave everything away to the charity shop as she not only didn't have the space, but there would be new stuff out every year so she wouldn't want to keep old stuff!

Which is great, because people who would love to decorate, but can't afford even primark prices, get an opportunity to.

I buy a lot of Christmas decorations, bedding, kitchen etc. I wait for local appeals for families and then donate. I'm changing my quilt size, do have five Winter/Christmas bed sets to donate. Any tatty ones go to a local gull rescue.
Halloween for us starts in October (but autumn starts Sep 1st). Christmas decorating anytime in December. People call B&M/Home bargains etc Chav while saying it's a shame that the high street is dying off. Us Chavs are keeping retail and lots of jobs going.