AIBU to ask you to boycott businesses (for example Giraffe) who thrust Christmas down our throats too early?

[Mintyy]

Went to Giraffe this week. Not a lot of choice about where to eat as we had theatre tickets and only about 50 minutes for dinner, but I nearly walked out of there when I saw the bloody Christmas tree in the foyer!!

Who else can I boycott for too much cynical Christmas graspery?

I think that apart from absolutely necessary food shopping I'm going to avoid the shops completely after next week.

I've seen a Christmas tree in a hotel in Middlesborough on the eighth of bloody September.

I loathe seeing Christmas paraphernalia until after 11 November or Remembrance Sunday whichever is the later, but I am pissing into the wind and I know it.

Normally in restaurants that's part of the "book your Christmas meal" display so yabu

I was in a Travelodge or similar that had one of them, a couple of years ago.

In June.

When I was at work, I would book our Christmas meal in January (for the following December). I would then forget about it until November-ish, when the restaurant/bar would contact me to ask for final numbers and meal selections .

Christmas trees in June/October annoy the pants off me.

Really doesn't bother me. To me, it's a minor thing to possibly get het up about it. Marks and Boots are already selling Christmas themed sandwiches and lunch items - it's nice to have something new to try. Go ahead and boycott them if it makes you feel better.it will make zero difference but if it makes you feel better then do it.

I workin retail and it's all ruled by the mighty John lewis,. When their tat goes out, every other retailer follows. Last year it was 2 weeks earlier than usual. So we all copied

It's how it is ... And judging by sales today, the average customer loves it

Yes John Lewis Oxford St had trees over the escalators and a huge fuckoff Christmas department last week. I'll be boycotting my beloved JL over my dead body though.

V pissed off that I couldn't buy a table lamp for DS at local department shop because they'd replaced their lighting department with a bauble shop though.

I do love the JL bauble shop though...

Ech, I think there are better things to boycott over than restaurants who are trying to get people to make their Christmas bookings.

Is this what MN calls a First World problem?

Not everyone can afford it in just December.

Also I make personalised glass decorations, and they take awhile to make - so I couldn't do it all in December. I had to start making things from August onwards to have enough to cover the Christmas period!

I don't really mind the decorations but i would prefer them to keep the carol playing to December only.

Lots of families have to spread the cost over the few months before the big day,I work in retail (abet the charity side of things) and we put out all our donated decorations this week to find them flying off the shelves,and I myself only have two more paydays before Christmas so am glad to be able to buy when the funds are available.

Totally understand that people need to spread the cost over how ever many months . . . that doesn't mean we all need to actually celebrate it for all those months though!
I HATE how early the Christmas stuff goes out in all the shops and restaurants and I'm so glad I'm not alone! I usually get called Bah Humbug! which couldn't be further from the truth! I LOVE Christmas which is why I don't want you September celebrators ruining it for me!

That's exactly my point! If the shops have Christmas decorations up for a quarter of the year then that makes the whole thing less special, less atmospheric and, yes, less meaningful. I don't understand why some people's need to spread their Christmas spending (I do it myself) means Giraffe needs to have a Christmas tree up on October 14th.

Also, it hypes the children up to such an extent that Christmas Day and Boxing Day itself is often a disappointment.

A shame.

Oh, and of course, very much a first world problem.

This thread has made me want to use Giraffes.

Might compliment them on their Christmas decorations,

Notimefortossers Never mind what they call you.

Scrooge is the finest character in English literature until Dickens ruins him in the last chapter!

I would like to agree with you but YABU by putting the C.............s word in a thread title in AIBU which has bypassed my filter of hiding the C........... s section of threads