Not to want to see Christmas stuff in the shops at the beginning of September??

[HellYeh]

We had a look around The Range this morning and I was surprised to see that they were setting up their Christmas displays

Surely they can hang off until at least October....

And I love Christmas but please let me enjoy the Indian summer we have been promised yet again

Said somebody every September for the last 10 years lol.

YA SO NBU. Local garden centre had Christmas stuff out last weekend - August Bank Holiday, for crying out loud.

I like Christmas, but it just makes the run-up seem never-ending.

Why don't shops just leave Christmas stuff up all year? It's already there for four months out of twelve!

Went to my local big Tesco today. They had huge displays of, on offer, boxes of Quality Street and Roses but nothing else obviously Christmasy. Main displays were of back to school stuff. For which I was very grateful.
I would actually boycott shops that had Christmas trees up in September.

geekone I disagree. It is getting earlier. We haven't had Christmas stuff before Halloween before as far as I can remember. Certainly not for 10 years.

I totally understand certain things being available this early but not everything.

I work in a craft shop and lots of our customers make their own Christmas cards, so the stock for this is available from summer for those who want to start making them ready to send end of November/December.
We also sell wooden advent calendars that you can paint, deco patch, etc these need to be ready to use from 1st December so again I kind of understand those being available early, same with make your own crackers, wreaths etc (though none of ours are actually available yet).
However we've just received a load of chocolate tree decorations. Nothing crafty about them, literally just plonk on your tree. And wrapping paper, and gift boxes, and tissue paper. These could have waited til much nearer December.
I agree with pp about working in retail - by the time you're ready to start getting into the Christmas spirit at home you're absolutely sick of it at work and it spoils it.

You're entitled to be annoyed but thank you for letting me know they've got some in! I've been debating whether I should go there or not this last week. Now I've made my mind up! (Got to be prepared this year, baby due in November so everything is geared towards that so far)

YANBU. First week in October should be the earliest!

This pisses me off no end too.

I just feel so sorry for my kids who have to endure months of excitement induced anxiety when Christmas is ages away. The shops should at least wait till after bonfire night ffs.

It's not easy to avoid, with even charity shops sneaking it into their windows.

As for the argument that the shops wouldn't do it if people didn't buy it, I'm sure folk would by guns, heroin and slaves if they were surrounded by tinsel, fairy lights and aggressively marketed for a quarter of the year. But it's not socially acceptable to do so .

And if you want to get organised early, then do. Why the rest of us have to suffer Christmas fucking trees in September so you can by socks and onesies I don't know. Just buy your fucking socks and onesies anyway, you don't need Christmas music in September. And if you do you are just a twat who has been sold a fake "festive" feeling in order to make you spend more money. Idiot. Wait till December

YANBU - however, I was asking about Christmas on my DS's birthday this year because I'm making most of them why oh why did I offer to crochet presents this year?

We tend to actually do anything about Christmas in december, usually 5 days before the "big day" itself and I do go "let me get through my birthday first!" before I want to think about what is happening for Christmas, so seeing stuff like trees and ornaments in shops this early just makes me feel down because it means another year is almost over.

YANBU, but it's nowt new.

We haven't had Christmas stuff before Halloween before as far as I can remember. Certainly not for 10 years.

When I was working my summer job as a student in the late 80s, they were putting the christmas decs up in the street outside, before I finished at the end of September.

As I said, nowt new, though councils don't put their decorations up so early, any more, as they have to make them last!

I don't remember that, PickaChew. My perception is that Christmas stuff has crept further and further forward. As a student in the 80s it definitely hadn't started appearing before I went back to University - and not for some time after that either. Like I say, way after Halloween. Although there wasn't much Halloween in the 80s either.

It's all a bit depressing. Schools go back, and the Christmas cards come out in the shops.
By October the shops are a mish mash of Halloween/Bonfire Night/Christmas.

I agree with PickAChew, I've worked in retail for the last 10 years and it's always been at the same time that Christmas is brought out. I actually do have Halloween things out too - came out at the same time as the baubles

Time to finalise this year's Spotify Christmas playlist