To think it's TOO FUCKING EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS!

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It's the middle of August

AUGUST!

Oxford Street has its displays up

Tesco is selling Christmas bloody chocolates

Charity shops have Christmas cards for sale.

IT'S A WHOLE THIRD OF A YEAR UNTIL CHRISTMAS

YANBU I adore Christmas but this just takes the shine off it all. It should all just start late November and then you can actually enjoy the build up without feeling like it's been Christmas for about 4 months.

i think it would be more fun if it was just , well, christmas. get a few gifts, buy some food, get pissed, raise a glass to santa jesus

But that's not #makingmemories hun! You have to start in February hun with your planning and feeling #blessed! Then there's elf on his fucking shelf, Christmas Eve boxes and mountains of wrapped plastic shite so you can post on social media about #beingblessed and #family and #Christmasshite.

The whole Christmas thing is marketing and consumerism way out of control. Nobody NEEDS to buy those bug tubs of chocolates at the till in tesco on the 21st of FUCKING AUGUST.

Hate it. Impossible to avoid it and if we have to go in for glittery, tinselling, Christmas carol shite it should be from 1st December only.

Only 4 paydays! I spend around £75 per month from now and it's all done by December, no debt, no stress.

I like Christmas but don't do anything about it until December. Otherwise it gets dull. Surely if you've faffed about doing Christmas stuff for months you're bored of it by the time it comes?

yes it is too fucking early and you should have posted this in the CHRISTMAS topic instead of inflicting the "too fucking early twattishness" on the rest of us.

Cause that is what the CHRISTMAS topic is for.

Only 125 days to go.

Apart from DS main present and DH main present, I've finished my Christmas shopping. My Christmas cake has already been prepared as in the fruit is soaking for three weeks.

I've got the Christmas food list ready which we start buying October and cards are wrote September/October ready for posting end of November and handed out December.

I prefer to start early and spread the cost as I save some money each month for Christmas. I stick to the list and rarely overspend. Family birthdays for the year are done in January so it's just a matter of delivering present and card. We have one family birthday a month for the whole year apart from August then 2 in June!

I just like being organised and would rather enjoy the festive season and the build up and not be worrying about money or presents.

I love Christmas. Australia however is somewhere where the UK was in about 1980 in terms of marketing....so we don't get much at all until December!

It's good in one way but not in another!

Just the thought of Christmas getting near has made me feel a little giddy inside.

You're right though, it does seem to get earlier and earlier.

Only 125 days to go.

don't want to get downwind of you lot if you have enough sprouts to warrant starting peeling them in August.....

Yabu

Tourists come to London in summer and buy Christmas stuff.

I've bought presents this week from the urban outfitters sale to stash away

I bloody love Christmas

I love Christmas, always have, but would prefer not to see anything about it until after Bonfire night, or at least Halloween.
Fat chance, I know.

Friend of mine will buy and scoff M&S mince pies the minute they're in the shops.
I make my own, but never until 1st December - God knows how much weight Dh and I would put on otherwise. I love carols too, but whether on radio or CD they also have to wait for December.

I did buy some stocking fillers I happened to see a couple of months ago, but if I run true to form will very likely forget them, or forget where I hid them, until mid February.

No, YABVVVUU. Christmas is precisely 18 Sundays away.

I'm literally counting down the days.

Then again, I'm humongous, pregnant with a hopefully rainbow baby, weepy and emotional, due on Christmas Day and just really wishing the intervening weeks away. For everyone else yes it's probably way too early.

I saw my first Christmas tree of the year up in someone's living room window over a fortnight ago.

YANBU. I love Christmas too. I do tend to stockpile presents from early on but I don't want it in my face this early. It's clearly just a marketing device from shops desperate for our custom as they flounder against online shopping. They could be less obvious.

Toddlers4HenDos

yes it is too fucking early and you should have posted this in the CHRISTMAS topic instead of inflicting the "too fucking early twattishness" on the rest of us

Cause that is what the CHRISTMAS topic is for

Errrr No. That topic is for the nutters posters who LIKE thinking about Christmas all year around. THIS is the perfect topic for complaining no about shops stocking CHRISTMAS stuff in the SUMMER.

Of course it's too bloody early. It's SUMMER. AUGUST. I love Christmas, but this is insane

I saw my first Christmas tree of the year up in someone's living room window over a fortnight ago.

I would think people who have Christmas trees up in August are quite probably struggling to keep in touch with reality.

it is also to spare the rest of us from dealing with or thinking about Xmas in August etc

Only 125 days to go.

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don't want to get downwind of you lot if you have enough sprouts to warrant starting peeling them in August.....

4691, you misunderstand. She has to start peeling them now so that they can be put on to boil on Bank Holiday Monday. Just to make sure they're cooked enough.

I saw my first Christmas tree of the year up in someone's living room window over a fortnight ago

WTAF?

I put mine up after Bonfire night and I know most people think that's too early, but I LOVE the lights - they brighten up the dull winter evenings.

Where are all these people buying cards in August to justify the floor space?

Cautiously puts hand up.

In my defence, I've got a big family, some overseas, and have to stagger the cost as much as possible...

I used to work in a shop that had to put Christmas out in August.

The shop was small, but even then if we didn't start in August and put Christmas out in phases until the last one in November, we wouldn't get it all done.

Plus, they sell really, really well.

YANBU! I love Christmas, too, I already have some presents bought and wrapped and I may have spent some time fantasising about what to do with the DC, but is is my private planning, Christmas prep should not be inflicted on the unwilling in August!

I'm glad things are starting to appear in shops. It makes buying on a budget a whole lot easier when I can start now.

YANBU. I love Christmas, and prep from September onwards... but quietly! Full blown Christmas shouldn't hit the shops until mid Nov. 🎄