WTF - a ton of stores are already geared up for Christmas?

[NewJeffCT]

I was in Lowe's, JC Penney, Target, Wal-Mart and a few other places this weekend and they all had a ton of Christmas stuff out. JC Penney had a huge snow globe going full blast blowing snow over Frosty...

Did they decide to skip over Halloween & Thanksgiving?

We haven't even had our first frost in Connecticut yet.

What's up?

Are they gearing up for War on Christmas 2006?

[Deja Q]

1. I recall a few years ago,

xmas trees were up in late August.

None of this is any real surprise. :crazy:

[Kutjara]

2. Every year, this shit gets earlier and earlier.

Back in the UK, I got used to seeing Christmas cards and decorations hitting the shelves in August. I always thought that Thanksgiving in the US provided a nice buffer to all the Yuletide insanity, confining it to a sensible month of hysteria. Now it seems, once Labor Day has passed, Xmas is here.

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Just shoot me now.

Please?


I can't stand another 3 month long Christmas. x(

[NewJeffCT]

4. maybe I was sleeping through last Sept & October

but, I don't remember it this early before.

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. I remember it in October.

So I guess it's actually getting earlier, since it's still September. Oy. x(