It's Nov. 1 and I've already seen Christmas/Holiday

[cboy4]

decorations going up.

At the 24 hour Walgreens, across from the row of 50 percent off Halloween candy and costumes, workers were puting out lights, fake Christmas trees, decorations, cards, wrapping paper, etc.

Where did the year go? :crazy:

[zbird]

1. One of the major department stores in South Bend, IN had decorations up in September!

I understand (kind of) the craft stores having the crap up that early, but department stores?

[me9399]

6. Macy's?

was that store by any chance Macy's? The Macy's by my house had their christmas area up already in september.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. At the Target here, the staff spends Halloween night

'turning over' the store. Putting all the Halloween stuff on clearance and setting up the Christmas stuff.

It's crazy. No room for Thanksgiving at all. Which bothers me because it's my favorite holiday.

[me9399]

5. that bugs my husband as well

he says "they skip over Thanksgiving to get to Christmas". Now my mom does decorate for thanksgiving with Pilgrims and fall things, and a couple of stores in my area(meijers and tj maxx) have had thanksgiving decorations for sale.

[gollygee]

7. Not enough money to be made at Thanksgiving

Unless you sell turkeys or cranberries. :D

No one has figured out how to make a wad of cash off Thanksgiving. When retailers find a way to do that, THEN it won't be skipped over.

[anniebelle]

3. Listened to Robert Earl Keen's Merry Christmas from the Family

yesterday on YouTube, only about 10 times.

[Daxxie]

4. I don't know where the year went,

but I figure if the retailers try hard enough, in a few years we'll be seeing the Christmas items go up the day after the 4th of July.

I'm old enough to remember when the Christmas season didn't start until at LEAST after Thanksgiving.

[Tesha]

15. Yesterday, Mr. Tesha said that "the Christmas season should begin..."

Yesterday, Mr. Tesha said that "the Christmas
season should begin when Santa arrives at Macy's
at the end of the Thanksgiving "Macy's Day"
parade".

And I, for one agree with him. By our lights,
the local retailers are running about two
months "fast".

Tesha

[me9399]

8. also....

On our music channels that come w/digital cable..one of then is already playing christmas music- it is too early for christmas music.

[marmar]

9. Try the end of September....

That's when the Christmas displays started going up at the Macyses in the Detroit area.

[me9399]

12. I'm from the detroit area ae well

WNIC is also starting to switch over to 100% christmas music by mixing in christmas music with their normal format.

[marmar]

13. Yikes!

That shouldn't happen until the week before Christmas.....It's probably some coordinated corporate effort to get people into stores because they know holiday sales will be disastrous this year.

[me9399]

14. wnic is owned by clear channel...

and most adult contemporary channels owned by clear channel switch over to christmas music before thanksgiving.

[cboy4]

17. Good lord. Sounds like they're going to be puting out

Valentines displays any day now on that schedule. :crazy:

[pstokely]

18. Not much money in Valentines Day

Stores put school supplies and christmas stuff out early because those make the most $

[bdamomma]

10. make your own gifts, stop supporting these corporations

now is our time to hit them back in the pocket book.

[a kennedy]

11. Kinda like this campaign season eh??? When did the race start??

Over a year ago and it's now only some 60 days or so until the Iowa caucuses. :crazy:

[SoCalDem]

16. Our stores have had Christmas stuff on display for a month already

..:)

[AlCzervik]

19. Cadbury now has "Christmas eggs" i saw them when i was buying Halloween candy.