Postpone Christmas til November, Halloween til October etc.

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When I'm Prime Minister I'm going to make this a priority (sod the economy).
No Halloween stuff in the shops in bloody July, nothing Chritmas until after Halloween, or preferably bonfire night. And please make bonfire night an actual thing again.
Chritmas starts so early now I'm already over it by September.
Is anybody with me?

I saw Halloween Decs in Asda Living a week ago. I was quite tempted by a nice pumpkin candle in case it sold out but I can’t bring myself to buy anything autumnal when the summer holidays are just starting! I can’t think about Halloween until the schools go back at least.

I would not ban it. I would just charge double VAT, which would probably reduce the amount on sale.

I'd ban all Halloween crap. In a time when we're all trying to cut down on plastic use the shops are full of absolute tat, 90% of which almost certainly goes straight to landfill in the first week of November.

Ditto Christmas shite.

In an ideal world I'd like Christmas to be every four years, like the Olympics...
There were mince pies in a nearby Sainsbury's at the end of august last year.

Halloween stuff in Next, Asda and B&M who also had a small selection of Christmas stuff! But can I get holiday clothes....nope it's all gone! I've not had my summer holiday yet 😔

Yes saw all the Halloween stuff in Next yesterday, I was all discombobulated for a second, thought someone had fast forwarded us to October 😂
And Christmas feels really tainted for me now by the extremely early over the top hype. I yearn for the days when no one talked about it or even thought about it until November.

B and M have got some autumn and Halloween stuff out.

I agree about Christmas being once every four years. (You need to work on your spelling of Christmas, though, if you’re going to rant about it.)

Yes! These things aren’t special if they happen ages before the actual date.

And then you find that the things you want are sold out of you try to purchase close to the actual date!! The shops have started on the next thing, eg Easter eggs before Christmas is finished!

I've seen Christmas chocolate in supermarkets this week, ridiculous

Agreed!! You can't buy anything for Xmas in the last week or two any more. As a child I loved the time between Xmas and New year. Chocolates, visitors, cake, films... Now it's done pretty much before it's begun.

I agree, I actually gasped when I went up the escalator in TK Max yesterday to be greeted by pumpkins, ghosts and fluffy blankets.

Yes! Christmas every 4 years would be fantastic, think how special it would be.

Absolutely. I was shocked to see a huge blow up Halloween display in The Range today!

I love Christmas and on one level it makes sense to have Christmassy stuff in the shops if you need to spread the cost of Christmas, but I’d be delighted if none of it appeared until November. And I have zero interest in Halloween tat or bloody pastel coloured egg baubles and other yellow and green bollocks for Easter, so could cheerfully do without any of that.

I must confess that I do sometimes find a bit of early Christmas merchandise quite cheering to look at, but I don’t buy any of it until the season is nearly upon us.

Yes forcing Christmas upon us too early has ruined it really 🙁

Agreed. I'd stop the insane focus on Christmas months before the day. I'd ban both Halloween and bonfire night completely if I could too.

I thought I was seeing things when I saw an advert for Christmas trees in a newspaper a couple of weeks ago. I actually checked the date on the newspaper and yes,it WAS the 20th of July.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, people didn't start preparing for Christmas until a couple of weeks before,maybe less. It wasn't uncommon for them to put their Christmas tree up on Christmas eve! When did this madness start,where we have Christmas decorations etc in the shops in August?! I don't even give Christmas a thought until the end of November!

I'm with you. There should be no Christmas stuff in shops until 1st December.

Bonfire night is fine, but Halloween should be banned.

Actually, I think Christmas itself should be every other year, not every 12 months. Then we might feel we did in fact get a break from it.

Actually, I will agree with that. Too late to edit my other post now.

I'm sure I am officially a Grinch now. So be it.

Stir-up Sunday takes place before Advent so clearly there was some preparation before "two weeks" before.

I hate to see the Christmas stuff and Halloween stuff in the shops so early. I hated it especially when my kids were small and I had to keep explaining that no, it wasn't nearly Christmas and no, we don't need to buy any Easter eggs for ages yet.
I'm a last minute person and so I ignore everything until the appropriate time.

Yep and no Easter eggs until Valentines is over.

I put my tree up 2 weeks before Christmas Sometimes it's been even later. I do pretty much all my present shopping in December.