Comments on: Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas….

By: Cosmic Charlie

Cosmic Charlie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:28:07 +0000

I hate to toot my own horn too much, but *I* mentioned Christmas about ten days ago on here. And you know what? I already got my first present! Thanks to reader Morty, the real Santa Claus, I get to go to Metallica! (Neener neener neener…)

Since the Metallica show is the day after Halloween, I won’t be violating too many Xmas traditions…

By: capricious

capricious — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:04 +0000

So instead you have to be the first guy to mention christmas on here?! You fell for their ploy!!
*winks*

I know what you mean! When I walked into Fred Meyer last week and saw the christmas aisles set up right along side the halloween ones, I thought…REALLY!? Is it because you didn’t know what to do with the back to school space you no longer needed?

I fear that one day we’ll have a christmas aisle permanently. FOREVER!

Maybe I should just keep my halloween stuff up for christmas… you know… fight the man! or whatever…

By: A. L. Venable

A. L. Venable — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:57:40 +0000

I remember a few years back when I started seeing Valentine’s Day candy out before Christmas. It’s just insane.

That said, I’m glad Halloween candy is out because I’m hooked on the dark chocolate Twix bars and they only sell them in the fall.

By: dieselboi

dieselboi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:42:44 +0000

@Talea - You know one thing I just remembered? Since they do bring out all this stuff so early, it is usually set to 40-60% off by the Friday after Turkey day if you are out shopping. We usually hit the stores the following weekend to stock up for the following year. I agree though, way way to early.

By: Talea

Talea — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:11:37 +0000

Of course the chain stores read the news. Why do you think this stuff is out now? So you’ll buy it before you realize your 401K is dust. If you’re scared about the economy, they have to quaking in their boots about the prospects for this year’s Christmas season.

Sept. 22 is incredibly early, even for chain stores. They usually wait until mid October. Of course, a few years ago, they waited until the day after Halloween. And I’m old enough to remember when they waited until the Friday after Thanksgiving.

I’d prefer we’d return to that. I like holidays and I like being with them in the moment — rather than skipping ahead to the next one….

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:11:41 +0000

I hope you’ll snag that Chihuahua when it’s 75% off…

By: glovid

glovid — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:53:27 +0000

I have found a stangley satisfying solution, especially when shopping on line. I go entriely to the end of all the ‘fill in the blanks’ but before I hit ‘process you order’ (particularly if I am a bit ambivalent about the purchase)I cancell it. It satifies whatever is going on in my brain convincing me that I need my shopping fix, without shoppping.
For as progressive Portland thinks it is, its a a big consumer culture and if I requires any real sacrifice or effort, we can count ourseves out. We are some of the biggest hypocrites of all, mostly because we know better.

By: http://www.camikaos.com/

http://www.camikaos.com/ — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:05:33 +0000

I would just once like to enjoy the Halloween season in its entirety before seeing Christmas stuff.