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To think that it's too early to stop stocking Christmas things?

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FlamingoCrimbo · 17/12/2009 20:01

Surely we're not the only family in the country that leaves it until close to actual Christmas to put up their decorations?

DH just had to pop out to get more lights for our tree that we're decorating this evening, but which we have left as late as the 20th in previous years. We had thought to ourselves that a garden centre would be best bet - open late and always have plenty of Christmas stuff.

Homebase has put away all it's Christmas stuff and is starting to merchandise it's Spring stuff already .

AIBU to think that everyone (shops etc.) gets so overexcited about Christmas so early that all the novelty has worn off before Christmas actually comes?

And AIBU to be a bit pissed off about this?

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JInglesBells · 17/12/2009 20:03

What! you're joking right!!!!????
that can't be right...
I haven't even thought about decs and stuff yet. Xmas is still a week away.

TipsyFairydifferentID · 17/12/2009 20:03

they may not have put it away. they may have sold through.

sazzlelou · 17/12/2009 20:05

Our lights broke on Monday so we went to B and Q on Tuesday and everything there has been moved from display, there's now only a tiny display. That was 10 days before christmas, traditionally you're supposed to put decs u 12 days before so thats not ridiculously late.

YANBU

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FlamingoCrimbo · 17/12/2009 20:06

Sold out? Really? A big garden centre chain hasn't thought ahead enough and re-ordered enough to cope with families doing decorating close to Christmas?

Would I be BU to be a bit pissed off about that too?

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PlumBumandBaublesMum · 17/12/2009 20:06

YANBU I can't get lights for the top half of my beautiful tree, unless I want the last couple of boxes of blue LED lights which I don't

I want a set of multi coloured(albeit LED) lights to match the 240 that are already on the bloomin thing, that teach me to have a massive bloody tree!

PlumBumandBaublesMum · 17/12/2009 20:07

I mean YANBU

gorgeousgirl · 17/12/2009 20:08

YANBU - went to town on Sunday, and it almost didn't feel Christmassy

Hey they have this now - (probaby the last person to notice!!!

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FlamingoCrimbo · 17/12/2009 20:20

That's what we've got now, Plumbum - blue twinkling led lights. They look better than nothing, but I'm mightily pissed off that's all the choice already! DH got them from Sainsburys - only thing left on the shelves.

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FlamingoCrimbo · 17/12/2009 20:38

Bloody hell! I think I need to put a sign on our door warning anyone with epilepsy! These lights are horrible! My parents have ones that you can choose the speed of the flashing but these ones switch automatically from fucking hideous nightclub strobe flashing manically to rather irritating delightful twinkling.

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Heqet · 17/12/2009 21:39

you are missing the point. don't you know that the time to buy for christmas is straight after your summer holiday. christmas is when you buy your easter eggs and book your next holiday.

Shops don't want us to live in the present and actually enjoy life, they want to hurtle us through life and have us chuck our money at them.

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Heqet · 17/12/2009 21:39

I mean Heqet now of course. Sorry.

JaneS · 18/12/2009 09:33

Yeah, we went to Homebase for the Christmas tree last weekend and found they were down to the last few - fortunately we wanted a tiny one because we don't have much space, since that was pretty much all they had!

I also bumped into someone at the same Homebase in late November. She was buying an unrooted Christmas tree and when we got chatting in the queue I was a bit curious why she was buying it (given it would surely have gone entirely brown and needle-dropped by Christmas day). Apparently, there are people who buy not one, but three Christmas trees in the run-up to the 25th!

When I was little I thought my mum deliberately had us decorating the tree on the 24th. Aaah ... now I know she was just run off her feet ...

LaurieFairyonthetreeeatscake · 18/12/2009 09:40

There were no real Christmas trees for sale yesterday in Homebase.

I eventually got a fairly crappy one from B&Q - surely we'd expect the closer we get to Christmas the fresher the tree would be as they restock

I wanted a fresh one, now I have an unhappy, almost dead fresh one.

Bettymum · 18/12/2009 09:46

Try Argos for lights - there is a small page right at the back of their catalogue. I got three sets of lights there on Tuesday.

nickelbabyjesus · 18/12/2009 09:46

i usually get mine from wilko's.
they always overstock and, yes, by this "late" in december they've already reduced everything.
if i'd gone earlier, then i would have had to pay full price.

but i am that homebase has stopped sellign them altogether.

Miggsie · 18/12/2009 09:48

Try John LEwis if you have one near, they are always well stocked, even up to Xmas eve

paisleyleaf · 18/12/2009 10:47

yanbu, I popped into a shop where in the past I've bought one of those felt stockings (and I know that in the past I'd left it until even nearer xmas too). They said they sold out weeks ago, and when I asked if they were getting any more in they looked at me as if I was mad. Like I'd left everything til the last minute.
And I also had a lights problem yesterday too.

I wonder if they're stocking less because of recession or something and not reordering. Or if people have shopped earlier just to be sure they've got xmas wrapped.

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