To think Christmas was better before it started mid October and there were beauty advent calenders etc?

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I love Christmas but it is becoming increasingly out of hand. Popped into Hungry Horse pub in September and they had a frickin Christmas tree up to advertise their December menu.
Why are there now £100 gin advent calenders and as much as i love decorations do we really need piles of tat everywhere?. I think it is more magic if it starts later and there is less pressure to spend squillions.
Aibu to think it has gone a bit crackers?

( pardon the pun.)

YANBU

Completely agree. I am fucked off with it already. I am according to ds a "bad mum" because I didnt do a halloween Xmas tree and a bonfire night xmas tree. Wtf! I was profoundly grateful as a child to get decco's up the day we broke up from school. 1 sweet from the quality street/roses tin a day and a small stocking of bits, new pj's and 2 main presents . Im only 42 so not totally ancient. I personally would love to skip the whole bloody process this year and just wake up when spring rears its pretty little head.

Yanbu

YANBU!!!

I know for certain that the decorations went up in our local shopping centre on 26th October 1980, so it's been around in Oct for years!

Yanbu! Trying to ignore it until December! And no fancy pre Xmas traditions here just basic cheapo chic advents and then its all about the day!

I have a gin advent calendar so yabu about that

YABU about the advent calendars, they are my only bit of Christmas joy as some other fucker has put the present in there.

YANBU, the older I get, the more scroogy I get, I only really do it for the DC these days, I'd skip it and go somewhere that doesn't do Xmas if I could, return when it's all over.

I want a beauty calendar this year!
But I do think you’re right!
My garden is lit up like Blackpool tower as of yesterday (Dhs doing!)

My ‘!’ Has a mind of its own

YANBU BUT there isn’t really anything Christmassy up near me yet. The massive supermarket has got one small, end of row display of mince pies but that’s it so far

I haven’t noticed Christmas tunes or adverts on yet either

I would appreciate even two weeks hiatus after Halloween rather than Christmas theming everywhere the second Halloween is over. So YANBU.

I hate it. Our local shopping centre the decorations go up the day after Halloween. It pushes people into spending more I think. Loads of people sick of it by the time Christmas Day comes around. Same with putting up your own decorations inevitably the same people have them down on Boxing Day as "they're sick of them"

I like most advent calendars, it wasn't something that was around when I was a kid (foreigner).

What I don't like is that shops have all the Christmas stuff out now and the shelves will be empty by mid December.

Couldn’t agree more, I’m really starting to dislike it now. The magic’s gone - it’s just a mess. It feels like Christmas traditions in 2019 are:
Gin advent calendars
The John Lewis Christmas ad (same formula every year)
Moaning about Elf on the Shelf
Putting your tree up in mid November and taking it down on 26 Dec.
Seeing Easter eggs on the shelf in December
Christmas markets - that close a week before Christmas
The effing Coca Cola truck (aka staring at a Scania lorry in an out of town car park)

Yanbu I've been so down on Christmas for the last few years and I think this is why. I've made a conscious effort not to engage in any Christmas talk/shopping/TV/social media until December. The constant "stuff" that you're supposed to have and do, as you say fancy advent calendars, treats for every day of the month, every outlet everywhere flogging christmas events and tat, I'm not religious at all but I find it all so depressing and takes away from the real meaning of Christmas for me (family, friends, food, gifts and being together). The constant consumerism and the negative effect on the environment, the waste etc all get me down, I'm actually feeling much better about Christmas this year now that I'm doing it on my terms and shutting out the noise of it all until December.

YANBU

bloody food shops are giving up so much space to stupid xmas food already. DD is coeliac, they have reduced normal range for stupid xmas cakes etc. We don’t want these!!

Christmas in December- only...

I can remember advent calendars in the 70's with just a picture of a robin, a bell or holly. Then it progressed to chocolates behind each window. Then luxury cosmetic ones, lush, Ted Baker etc. What next?, a car, a house, a holiday sorry, slight exaggeration but it's all gone mad imo.

totally agree
i have two dc birthday's in november for christ sake!

why?
is it so we can spread the cost?
is it heck, they simply want us to spend spend spend

Christmas brings me out in a cold sweat. it is not enjoyable this incessant advertising, pushing us to buy and over spend

I started putting my Christmas decs up after Halloween decs came down, but in my coffee shop, wont do my house til December. People are already placing cake orders and booking my festive events so I just go with what my customers want...I think November is fine for retail, I used to put them up in Sept when I was employed which ruined it for me, I was covered in glitter daily for 4 months by the time the post Christmas sale was over too.

XH has his decs up in the house already which is ridiculous! I love Christmas but don't do elf on the shelf, Christmas eve boxes, pricey advent calendars etc

I find this flow chart helps understand if it’s Xmas or not 😂

@MissMarpletheMurderer - yep as a school kid I was Christmas staff at a High Street shop. Decorations went up second week in October, as agreed by the local chamber of commerce to stop it creeping earlier. Now in my 40s and have spent the rest of my life failing to convince people that it isn’t “getting earlier each year”. In fact with Halloween a thing now, if anything it’s later...

Agree I am a no Christmas zone until the 1st of December I avoid all Christmas adverts music and movies until then. I make arrangements for the kids presents but that's about it.

This year they have match attax and Thomas mini advent calendars which are part of their Christmas presents from us they were £45 in total !!! It's barking

Saying that this year I am going to the Edinburgh Christmas market at the end of November as a husband and child free weekend away with friends first one in eight years so there is something good coming out of this early Christmas nonsense