Postpone Christmas til November, Halloween til October etc.

I agree, and I think you do need to allow the sale of advent calendars, fake trees and decorations in the second half of November (to allow time to buy an advent calendar and post it to Australia to arrive by the 30th Nov if required, and for people who decorate on 1st Dec rather than 24th).

I don't start the Christmas season until very late November at the earliest but I'm still sick of it by Boxing day because I see it every week in the supermarket from the end of August.

I hate how when you go to the shops on December 28th it's all moving on to the next season. At least let us enjoy it until New Year's.

The ones near me started this around June before they'd even broken up. It feels like they were setting us a riddle, how are kids meant to go back to somewhere they haven't even left yet.

Also @beguilingeyes I will happily elect you but can I also add no Easter Eggs until March to your manifesto.

Totally agree! During Xmas I recall seeing valentines chocolates and even before my kid was back to school from Xmas break the Easter stuff was out 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm all for doing some prep work in advance, especially if I'm hosting, in my mind that can be separate from getting into and celebrating the season. It's just being practical.

I personally do think that if you're sick of the Christmas season by December 26th you've started it too early.

I’ll vote for you. And if you make me deputy prime minister I will make it compulsory that all road works have to have a sign up telling you what they are doing. Like “we are fixing a hole in the water pipe” or we are joining the gas supply for the new housing estate to the mains”. That kind of thing.

I put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas Sometimes it's been even later. I do pretty much all my present shopping in December.

Yep and no Easter eggs until Valentines is over.

I hate to see the Christmas stuff and Halloween stuff in the shops so early. I hated it especially when my kids were small and I had to keep explaining that no, it wasn't nearly Christmas and no, we don't need to buy any Easter eggs for ages yet.
I'm a last minute person and so I ignore everything until the appropriate time.

Stir-up Sunday takes place before Advent so clearly there was some preparation before "two weeks" before.

Actually, I will agree with that. Too late to edit my other post now.

I'm sure I am officially a Grinch now. So be it.

I'm with you. There should be no Christmas stuff in shops until 1st December.

Bonfire night is fine, but Halloween should be banned.

Actually, I think Christmas itself should be every other year, not every 12 months. Then we might feel we did in fact get a break from it.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, people didn't start preparing for Christmas until a couple of weeks before,maybe less. It wasn't uncommon for them to put their Christmas tree up on Christmas eve! When did this madness start,where we have Christmas decorations etc in the shops in August?! I don't even give Christmas a thought until the end of November!

I thought I was seeing things when I saw an advert for Christmas trees in a newspaper a couple of weeks ago. I actually checked the date on the newspaper and yes,it WAS the 20th of July.

Agreed. I'd stop the insane focus on Christmas months before the day. I'd ban both Halloween and bonfire night completely if I could too.

Yes forcing Christmas upon us too early has ruined it really 🙁

I love Christmas and on one level it makes sense to have Christmassy stuff in the shops if you need to spread the cost of Christmas, but I’d be delighted if none of it appeared until November. And I have zero interest in Halloween tat or bloody pastel coloured egg baubles and other yellow and green bollocks for Easter, so could cheerfully do without any of that.

I must confess that I do sometimes find a bit of early Christmas merchandise quite cheering to look at, but I don’t buy any of it until the season is nearly upon us.

Absolutely. I was shocked to see a huge blow up Halloween display in The Range today!

Yes! Christmas every 4 years would be fantastic, think how special it would be.

I agree, I actually gasped when I went up the escalator in TK Max yesterday to be greeted by pumpkins, ghosts and fluffy blankets.

Agreed!! You can't buy anything for Xmas in the last week or two any more. As a child I loved the time between Xmas and New year. Chocolates, visitors, cake, films... Now it's done pretty much before it's begun.

I've seen Christmas chocolate in supermarkets this week, ridiculous

Yes! These things aren’t special if they happen ages before the actual date.

And then you find that the things you want are sold out of you try to purchase close to the actual date!! The shops have started on the next thing, eg Easter eggs before Christmas is finished!

I agree about Christmas being once every four years. (You need to work on your spelling of Christmas, though, if you’re going to rant about it.)