To go aaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh at the Christmas biscuits in M&S today?

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

I mean it's September. Surely now is too early to buy them? They'd be out of date by then.

AIBU to be grumpy at the sight of them?
Or should I be lured into buying them now and squirreling them away?

The danger of the latter is I would forget where I put them!

I hate all this.

YANBU. It makes me grumpy too. By the time November comes I'll already be sick of Xmas. Humbug.

Fair point but my friend works in a department store and he says that...

Customers complain all the time that Christmas arrives in store too early. But they also complain if they don't get a good run-up of shopping time, as most people get paid monthly and if you do it in wage packets there really isn't that long to go until Christmas - sorry if this is a horrible thought!

Advent calendars in Morrisons today

i know, i feel your angst. rows of tins in Morrisons today too.

bah!

Tescos beside me has selection boxes, chocolate Santas etc already in!!! The M&S biccies usually last a couple of months although not when they're actually in my house

YANBU but some people like to buy early to spread the cost. I'm one of them I'm afraid

My male friend has done all his Christmas shopping!! (he won't tell me what he has got me!)

We've started to get a few things if they have been on offer and we would normaly get them. Eg tin of quality street, a couple of bottles of wine.

Advent cals in Sainsburys too. Aldi full of xmas puds and ince pies.

Dh normally does the Christmas food shopping the month before Chrismas. I had to keep going out and secretly replacing some of the chocolate or mince pies that he had bought!!!

Ironically I wanted to buy a Christmas pud late in august because my bro was over from japan and you can't get them there. I couldn't get one then!! That was about two weeks ago. But now I don't want to see them!!

Re the run up to christmas - I can see that, but does the stuff actually stay in date that long?

YABU. They're catering for the likes of me; great intentions of squirreling goodies away for Christmas and spreading the cost, but most will be eaten before Hallowe'en. They're not daft, these retail folk.

Therein is another problem. Scoffing your stash of squirreled stuff too early!

YANBU

I stomped round Tesco in a right strop after seeing the chocolate Santas yesterday.

FFS they have only just taken down the "Back to School" stuff and now it is Christmas??? No doubt they will be filling the aisles with Hallowe'en tat and fireworks too, soon enough (they annoy me even more, especially the Hallowe'en stuff)

YANBU - gluttony, greed and commercialism.

Surely if you scoff the stuff you've squirrelled away before December you have to buy it all again? Therefore you are not spreading the cost - you are paying double! More profit for Mr Tesco and Mr Sainsbury then....If you want to spread the cost why not put the money to one side you intend to spend on the goods.

If you go to Lidl, they do these amazing Xmas chocolate covered lebkuchen in packs of 8. They're kind of spicy, orangy, marzipanny-ish. I get so annoyed I have to wait to September before I can buy them again!

Why do people buy biscuits for Xmas anyway? It's hardly traditional, it's just glutious like tins of quality street
mince pies and turkey are Xmas food people [ bahhumbug ]

there were mince pies in sainsburys LAST WEEK

jesus would have wept

i certainly did

This really really annoys me! While I admit to starting Christmas shopping in August (otherwise I would never get everything done), I only buy stuff that isn't explicitly Christmassy. Gifts for elderly relatives, for example. Or fabric to make gifts.

But I don't particularly want to see chocolate Santas or Advent calenders or bloody Annuals in September! DD has already spotted the vast display of Annuals in our local Sainsbos and pesters me every week for one! Annuals have always been an Xmas Eve gift in our house. I am not bloody buying her one in September to buy her another one in December!

Halloween stuff was there before DC went back to school!

Yay!! ]grin]

I saw the Christmas stuff in Tesco today and was so excited! I was in a happy mood all around the shop then. Sorry, I am one of those very annoying people who absolutely loves Christmas, Halloween & Winter. I am probably the only person in Manchester today who was very happy with the wind and rain, I love it and it meant I could wear my new wintery coat!

I also love Christmas-but not until December

YABU. Be grateful you have enough money so that you don't have to start planning Christmas now.

I used to think like you do. Now I'm really skint I get it. If I start planning Christmas now (and buying what I need as I go along, from now until Christmas) then I'll have everything I need by December, and it will be a pleasant experience.

If I leave it until November for example, I won't have enough money to get what I want, I'll have to spend more money anyway as I'll have less time to shop around and it'll be stressful, probably resulting in me starting the new year in debt I can't afford.

Next time you see the Christmas stuff n the shops you should feel lucky you don't have to start planning so far ahead for things because of lack of money, rather than moaning!

"Dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sleigh"

Sorry couldn't help myself.

I love Christmas!

yes retailers go OTT in the run up, but what's the harm? Now if they started playing carols in Sept, I may have a thing or two to say