I was looking for planters 2 weeks ago. Heard Target had a pretty good selection so I went. After not finding a single flower pot, I asked an employee where they were.
He gave me a deflated sigh and said, "if there's any left, it'd be in aisle 7 between the greeting cards and sports....but I think it's all Christmas stuff now"
And he was right. Two full aisles of Christmas stuff. In the middle of October.
Christmas has even creeped before Halloween at the store i went to buy Halloween decorations at. I want to riot
If I were some mad tyrant ruling the world and making arbitrary laws on a whim, one of my first acts would be to declare that every month will have one major holiday, and that all holidays shall be contained in their month. Bank holidays don't count, just the big thematic ones.
Since I'd also be fixing the calendar, that works out to 13 holidays, plus new years and leap day.
In the UK we had Guy Fawkes' night for that, though it has now been somewhat supplanted by the reimported Hallowe'en traditions from the USA.
Of course, the USA was supposed to have Thanksgiving to hold Christmas at bay, and apparently that didn't work, so good luck.
Critical support for Friendsgiving despite its colonialist background, that autumnal décor always gets me
We get Christmas BEFORE Halloween now. It's fucking ridiculous. Y'all out there buying Xmas crap in early October need to take a serious look at your priorities. JK.
Bro, Christmas shit was on the shelves in August around here.
👻💀Jack and Sally Hold The Line💀👻
Ugly sweaters and garish lights are their very own counterculture though, and I appreciate their supporters. They steel us against January's nihilistic void. It takes real courage to be kitsch. We should accept sanguine maniacs as much as our melancholic depressives.
Christmas stuff shows up in August where im at. You'll have a few aisles of Halloween and a couple Christmas. Its been this way since about 2015 or atleast thats when I noticed it as I was working retail at that time. Lots of people give me shit for not celebrating Christmas until mid December. Its not really magical if we're just gonna celebrate it half the year.
The war on Christmas rages on.
Hold!
That!
Line!
Well, don't forget Bonfire Night after Halloween.
I enjoy it way more, Halloween is kinda boring for me (I don't enjoy scary things), but Bonfire Night? Everybody sets off fireworks non stop for HOURS and we light thousands of bonfires and we eat bonfire treacle toffee and have chilli and burn effigies of the people that tried to take down the government it's FUCKIN SICK BRUH 🔥🔥🔥
"Battalion of baubled barbarians" is a juicy phrase.
I'm quite close to the family my brother married into. Both he and they are all Christmas music fanatics. The second Halloween stops until.. probably January. Drives me up a wall.
I'm far more beltane than Samhain aligned, but thank you goths
Hallowe'en
These apostrophes are out of control.
They haven’t done a really good job recently, with Christmas decorations creeping in since mid-September
Al gave us our battle cry.
Every day is halloween.
Guess that makes me a goth. Dresses as Terraria's Unicorn
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