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

I like Christmas but hate the fact that it starts so early.
I tutored a Spanish girl once. She couldn't believe the months of Christmas-hysteria we have here. She said "I think the problem is that you don't have enough proper festivals in the UK and that's why Christmas has become so crazy. In Spain we have lots of local and national festivals, so there's always a different one to get excited about and you don't need to start getting excited about Christmas in August!" I think she had a good point.

Not a good time to say I've bought all but 6 Christmas presents then 😂

I love Christmas and always shop early to ensure I can spread the costs and avoid the manic shops

It is far too early.

I am still on our family summer holiday. Christmas can fuck right off.

Yey Christmas!

A few years ago I saw a Christmas tree on a hotel in Middlesbrough on 8 September. It boils my piss to see Christmas celebrated until after Remembrance Sunday or 11 November, whichever is later, but I'm spitting into the wind and I know it.

Congratulations. You've made the Daily Fail.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4809712/Christmas-cards-gone-sale-August.html

And they pinched your photos.

OI! the Daily Fail knobheads never even asked me I'm due royalties surely (to help pay for christmas!)

The DF need a MN thread to find out that there's Christmas stuff on sale?
Does nobody there do supermarket shopping?

(the F there is not for fail, btw)

Bask in your five minutes of fame :). But yes I agree - they are cheeky feckers!

I feel like a proper Mumsnetter now - having my boring/pointless/non-news thread lifted

I wish shops wouldn't stock any Christmas stuff until December. Like when I was a kid.

Preen indeed! Go you! And I agree with you by the way. FWIW I also scooted past a bakery last week selling hot cross buns. The philosophical question is 'early or late'?

YABU, I booked our Santa visit and Christmas days out/activities yesterday

YANBU, it's bloody ridiculous.

My next door neighbour had her decorations up on Boxing Day in 2016. It gets earlier every year

Not a good time to say I've bought all but 6 Christmas presents then 😂

The thing is buying presents =/= wanting Christmas in August

I buy presents all throughout the year to spread the cost and because I buy things on sale or when there are offers on - both for birthdays and Christmas - and I always have a fairly healthy "present cupboard" at any given time of the year. Because most of my family are adults we tend to just get each other small token gifts just to have something to open on Christmas day when we are all together and spend our money on our kids. Whilst I try to buy something thoughtful and original I always know that there are some "classic favourites" that I can never go wrong with. For example my sister loves a certain scent of Yankee Candle so if I see it on sale/offer during the year (and they are always on offer somewhere at some point in the year) I buy one, pop it in a little basket with a mini bottle of her favourite wine and her favourite chocolate bar and wrap them in cellophane and that's her present done for not much more than £10. If I bought her present in December just on principle of it being a Christmas present, the candle alone could cost that.

That doesn't mean I want Christmas to be shoved down my throat before I've even been on my summer holidays!

I love Christmas and am on the countdown to Christmas thread. However I prefer stuff to stay out of the shops until after Bonfire Night.

Binary you are famous!!

Yah Jane so famous...

I notice that the DF "forgot" to use my real name!

Eolian between now and 'winterfest' we have:
11th September holiday
Late September 10 day town festival, 24th holiday (for our town only).
12th October holiday
1st November holiday
6th and 8th December holiday - most probably 7th too as a 'bridge' day, so a 5-day weekend (i think 8th is Friday?)

Decs and tree go up any day after 8th. We also celebrate the 3 Kings who arrive the evening of 5th January, 6th Jan is a holiday. Much much more impirtant than 25th December. Christmas lasts a good 2 weeks here, it doesn't just peter out after 26th.

DS has the best of English-Irish-Spanish-Catalan Christmas!

In general, though, we send about 10 cards per year, 5yo DS helps make them (stamping/fingerpaints or whatever). We buy for 5 other children and i make a few small things for my parents/SM. DH and i buy each other a book or something practical (dog-walking trousers for DH last year, i got slippers, we were both delighted!).

We don't go nuts on DS' gifts and neither do other family members. No one is well-off. We don't go crazy with food or drinks or daytrips or 6 Santa grottos. We still enjoy it greatly.

But AUGUST?! Money-grabbing fuckers.

This appeared in a chain of shops two weeks ago.

They're almost sold out now...

I love how the Daily Fail direct their readers to the thread - don't they know we will all try to convert them away from reading the hideous rag of hate?

Peace and goodwill Daily Mail readers - time to give up clicking on articles of bile, racism and hatred of your fellow humans and breathe up the cleansing good will of peace and Xmas love etc etc.

That sounds great, ElQuintoConyo - I think it would be good if we 'diluted' our excitement a bit, across the year, and used some of it on festivals that were a little less commercialised.