Postpone Christmas til November, Halloween til October etc.

I see what you mean. It might be cheaper to do that online in bulk maybe.

Yes but it will involve having to purchase Christmas themed items.

We do stock other items but the seasonal items ie Halloween, Christmas etc accounts for most of our profit. We do still have summer games pools etc out but sales of those have slowed down completely.

You can just choose not to buy into it. Shops wouldn't dedicate shelf space to it if people weren't buying it. Some people want to start buying things early because its how they budget. I don't buy anything for Halloween so it doesn't phase me either way. I don't buy anything for Xmas until advent. Except mince pies which frankly should be a year round event. And I can't find it in me to be arsed about people buying egg shaped chocolate at any time of year. Its just chocolate.

Ha! No, I have to order it from Sainsbury's and wait to collect it instead of just being able to walk in and pick it up.

School shorts are a particularly hard item to find because despite the fact September is usually still really warm the shops have decided it is already the depths of winter and once again you are prevented from buying a range of clothes appropriate to the actual time of year that it is

It's a year round problem really. Kids change size at all times so it really makes no sense that the amount available should be greater or smaller at any time of year so it is particularly galling that it is early July when it's in larger quantities. The absolute last time anyone needs it.

So do you buy your kids the wrong size uniforms every year then?

Well yes, of course you will, but that's got nothing to do with this thread 🙄

I didnt. I'm saying shops should stock less and sell less. Sell other stuff in October and November that is actually appropriate to the season. Or use the space for non-seasonal ordinary food and other goods.

You only "need" to stock so much because shops stock it so early in the first place so people think they need it. If all the shops started only selling mince pies and Christmas wrapping paper in December nobody would really be clamouring for them earlier.

You'd have my vote. This so annoys me! It takes the joy out of the seasons by rushing things.

You misunderstood my post. We have neither the warehouse or shelf space to keep the amount of stock we get through if it was solely done in December or even just Nov/dec. We've already got an increase in toys coming in to cover the Christmas period and last year we ran out of wrapping paper in the middle of December. We don't have any Christmas items out yet.

Kill. Them.

Twats, that's who.

I saw a Halloween wreath on someone's front door today on the way to work. This was at 7.15am so they must have been there last night. Who the eff puts up Halloween decorations in July??

Christmas every four years sounds bloody awful. I don't have a lot of Christmases left with my Dad and under your regime, I could have no more Christmases with him. No. NO.

I miss those halcyon days.

Yes I absolutely hate it. Shopping with DD yesterday and there were sweaters, boots and coats everywhere. Autumnal displays in shops with just the faintest hint of Christmas already thrown in. In July! Fucking July!

I refuse to subscribe to any of it. My Christmas traditions don't start until Dec. 1st when I sit down, light my Winter candle and write my Christmas cards.

I'm with you here, dear.

That was EXACTLY my next step, having sorted out the country's finance.
However other 'people' think that they have better ideas...

...and we can all see what that lead to. 🙄

Yep that’s how i do it . I ignore Halloween until the week before and Christmas until mid November !

Or in one case in our town "we are laying pipes in order to be able to connect the new housing estate to the mains gas supply" followed shortly by "we are now laying the correct size pipes in order to be able to connect the new housing estate to the mains gas supply" 🙄😂 To make matters worse the road affected was a busy one especially at rush hour and the temporary traffic lights were there for ages causing a lot of inconvenience.

When compiling your full manifesto, please can you also ban the phrase 'spooky season'? Autumn is such a beautiful, glorious time of harvest bounty and goodness, please can we celebrate that instead of the flogging of hideous 'horror tat'?

I can't buy Halloween stuff on autumn because it's sold out by August madness completely pointless

Most shops restrict their seasonal stuff to one aisle which can be avoided. What can't be avoided is the Christmas music they play from September(ish). That I'd ban until December.

And only one major roadworks project at a time. I'm not kidding, there are about five projects going on in my town and you can't leave town in any direction without hitting roadworks; there are diversions on the diversions - it's a complete joke. These are not emergency works, they are long projects going on for months.

I wouldn’t vote for you. I’m thinking about Christmas now. I’ll just wait til after my birthday (3 weeks) then I’m full on Xmas.

Christmas every 4 years would be amazing.

Halloween can be all year round as far as I’m concerned because I like it (Scottish so always massive here) but I do agree June is a bit silly. Sorry TK Maxx I do love you. Back to School stuff needs to be out before end of August though. Mine start back on the 13th.