Does having Christmas stuff in the shops for 4 months of the year cause Christmas to be a letdown

I am like this. I do our Christmas things on our timetable every year. I don't move to cake and pudding until after I do jam and chutney. I just do it at my pace.

I love celebrating seasonal events, in their season. We will do lots of autumnal stuff, but once everyone is over back to school etc.

I am not going to alter my timetable for anything other than the weather, if the seasonal stuff is possible, it will be done.

If not, I will be running around the village. snipping at bushes!

But it's not Eid at the moment or coming up to Eid.
Both of the Eid festivals have happened already this year.
I honestly don't quite understand the OPs point.
Food products (like the tubs of Roses) are pretty much sold all year around so they are available for any and all the festivals that happen in a year. Why would that make the OP annoyed?

I read it as OP being annoyed that these items are sold for Eid and not just for Christmas. And my point was, that it’s about the shops wanting to make more money not Muslims. I’m not quite sure why you’re struggling to follow this.

I love it when everything is ripped down and goes back to normal on Boxing Day. It used to make me sad taking the decorations down, but now I see it as new year and a fresh start with everything all cleaned up. Winter Solstice has just been and by February you can start seeing signs of spring.

Yes I did.
A brief mention of Eid that didn’t really make sense in relevance to shops selling Christmas stuff.

Did you read the op?

Absolutely agree with this.

But that’s the point of the thread really.

So need more than 30 days to have a Christmas that leads up to expectations.
Why is this a thing in 2025.

Possibly because we have 24 supermarkets, global online shopping and literally anything and everything available to get all year round? How can anyone compete with that. How can Christmas be special if you can now recreate Christmas in September. 10 years ago you could get mince pies and Christmas cake in November. Now it’s August!

There needs to be a new Law:

NO Christmas things in shops until October.

Huh?
What's the connection with Islam?

August is very early but my DH doesn't get paid until the end of the month, after Christmas so we do need to start picking bits up in October. Not loads of tat and decorations but things like alcohol and chocolate with the weekly shop, to give as gifts.

If it didn’t sell, shops wouldn’t fill their very lucrative shelves with it.
UK shops do it because there’s a demand.
You don’t like it - fair enough.
A lot of others do like it, for whatever reason.

Just walk on by. Live and let live.

I hate it and think it ruins it as its dragged on for that long I'm fed up of it by December. However no idea what it's got to do with Muslims/Eid that you mention. They put it in the shops now to make more money as people start buying things like chocolates now then eat them and repeat numerous times until Christmas!

I have seen Halloween and Christmas decorations in B&M last week. It definitely takes the edge off of what should be special times.
Mid to end of November should be the time for Christmas decorations /chocolates to be in shops.

It's too much. It's not needed and takes away the excitement of Christmas. I always think that people who are over excited by Christmas 120 days before the event can't have much going on in their lives.

I love Christmas! My go to comfort telly is anything Christmassy, for example, but I had to pop in to The Range the day before our summer holiday at the start of August. It was during the heatwave and it felt so wrong seeing decorations while I was wandering about in my flip flops and shorts.
That being said, up until this year, my husband and I have struggled financially and it has been so helpful to buy the odd stocking filler, non perishable food just to try to spread the cost. So I’m torn really.

I like getting all my presents, food ordered, activities booked well in advance of December so I can enjoy it without anything to do or last minute rushing around.

I usually have almost everything wrapped and ready to go by December. We spend December doing lots of family activities from little things like hot chocolate and Christmas movies or bigger organised things like a trip to London to see the Christmas lights. I can enjoy them all without having any extra chores.

Just ignore it. The shops wouldn't put them out if nobody bought them. Here in Germany it's already starting too - my colleague posted a picture of Christmas goods in her local supermarket. Usually it starts here as soon as Oktoberfest is over. 🙄

The solution would be a pact not to buy them until Dec. They are there because people buy them.

I agree. I enjoy the actual Christmas period but the relentless build-up is way too much and has become an consumerist/advertising juggernaut.

Then they should grow up and learn to adult FFS. As I said, I think shops do it because it makes you spend more. You buy some gifts in October and then you see more things in Nov, Dec, you forget about the pile you've stashed under the bed. If people put the money aside instead and went out a couple of weekends in a row they'd be less likely to do that. People getting into ridiculous debt, kids expecting hundreds of pounds if not thousands spent, it's awful. I'm not a Grinch and I love Christmas and my kids when little had a "pile" but never more than about 8-10 max. When they were little they'd be overwhelmed by more plus they get several things from three sets of grandparents, aunties etc.

I agree. The big Tesco near me, if you go in on Christmas Eve they're ripping everything down and putting out pastel coloured laundry baskets and mops in the seasonal aisle. It's utterly depressing.

Not at all. I like it and able to maintain my excitement for 4 months!