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?

If you want bonfire night come to Sussex we do it properly here.

I mean back when it wasn't normal to have Halloween stuff in June and Christmas stuff in September the public still managed to celebrate those festivals.

And supermarkets survived

I buy a pumpkin and sweets for the neighbours’ kids in late October, why any earlier? I buy my Christmas gifts etc in December not before but I do like stollen and indulge from October onwards

Advent starts in November this year, admittedly its the 30th but it is still November. So for Christians the preparations for Christmas will start in November this year.

Yes when I was a child (Catholic family and Catholic school), we began preparing for Christmas at the beginning of advent. Thats when the excitement began and letters were posted to Father Christmas.

Yeah I think in my dictatorship I'd actually allow mid-November after Rememberance Sunday.

Christmas every 4 years would be amazing.

Halloween can be all year round as far as I’m concerned because I like it (Scottish so always massive here) but I do agree June is a bit silly. Sorry TK Maxx I do love you. Back to School stuff needs to be out before end of August though. Mine start back on the 13th.

I wouldn’t vote for you. I’m thinking about Christmas now. I’ll just wait til after my birthday (3 weeks) then I’m full on Xmas.

And only one major roadworks project at a time. I'm not kidding, there are about five projects going on in my town and you can't leave town in any direction without hitting roadworks; there are diversions on the diversions - it's a complete joke. These are not emergency works, they are long projects going on for months.

Most shops restrict their seasonal stuff to one aisle which can be avoided. What can't be avoided is the Christmas music they play from September(ish). That I'd ban until December.

I can't buy Halloween stuff on autumn because it's sold out by August madness completely pointless

When compiling your full manifesto, please can you also ban the phrase 'spooky season'? Autumn is such a beautiful, glorious time of harvest bounty and goodness, please can we celebrate that instead of the flogging of hideous 'horror tat'?

Or in one case in our town "we are laying pipes in order to be able to connect the new housing estate to the mains gas supply" followed shortly by "we are now laying the correct size pipes in order to be able to connect the new housing estate to the mains gas supply" 🙄😂 To make matters worse the road affected was a busy one especially at rush hour and the temporary traffic lights were there for ages causing a lot of inconvenience.

Yep that’s how i do it . I ignore Halloween until the week before and Christmas until mid November !

I'm with you here, dear.

That was EXACTLY my next step, having sorted out the country's finance.
However other 'people' think that they have better ideas...

...and we can all see what that lead to. 🙄

Yes I absolutely hate it. Shopping with DD yesterday and there were sweaters, boots and coats everywhere. Autumnal displays in shops with just the faintest hint of Christmas already thrown in. In July! Fucking July!

I refuse to subscribe to any of it. My Christmas traditions don't start until Dec. 1st when I sit down, light my Winter candle and write my Christmas cards.

I miss those halcyon days.

Christmas every four years sounds bloody awful. I don't have a lot of Christmases left with my Dad and under your regime, I could have no more Christmases with him. No. NO.

I saw a Halloween wreath on someone's front door today on the way to work. This was at 7.15am so they must have been there last night. Who the eff puts up Halloween decorations in July??

Twats, that's who.

Kill. Them.

You misunderstood my post. We have neither the warehouse or shelf space to keep the amount of stock we get through if it was solely done in December or even just Nov/dec. We've already got an increase in toys coming in to cover the Christmas period and last year we ran out of wrapping paper in the middle of December. We don't have any Christmas items out yet.

You'd have my vote. This so annoys me! It takes the joy out of the seasons by rushing things.

I didnt. I'm saying shops should stock less and sell less. Sell other stuff in October and November that is actually appropriate to the season. Or use the space for non-seasonal ordinary food and other goods.

You only "need" to stock so much because shops stock it so early in the first place so people think they need it. If all the shops started only selling mince pies and Christmas wrapping paper in December nobody would really be clamouring for them earlier.