This needs to stop...srsly...

The Christmas shopping monster needs to stop.

I saw fricking Christmas trees on sale yesterday in one of the bigger stores. It's barely even October and they have the xmas stuff up.

Can we atleast wait till the day after Thanksgiving to start putting up X-mas stuff? It's the 12 days of Christmas, not 3 months.

Commercial Holidays know no bounds.

Does it really hurt you if other people like to get their christmas shopping done early?

I'm reminded of the best Christmas song ever, Nostalgia Critic's Holiday Cluster****.

Some of my neighbors not only have their Christmas trees up already but others are now starting to put up "Halloween lights" that are just orange versions of Christmas lights. I guess it'll eventually come down to half the year when it's the "holidays" and the other half when it isn't.

Poor thanksgiving always gets ignored.

I work in a massive grocery store (H.E.B.) and we only have Halloween seasonal out, I don't see us starting to phase in Christmas until early to mid November. now as soon as December hits I'll be hearing Christmas carols over the store radio through the entire month and ill be sick of it.

BUT:
-Another store in the same company is already putting out Christmas and at least one of the local craft stores is doing Christmas now.
-I've also been told that the local Macy's is already putting up Christmas trees.

Overall ya, it's crazy. We could at least have a few weeks of Christmas/Thanksgiving, but it looks like corporate culture no longer celebrates thanksgiving.

Aside from starting too early which is ridiculous, many years ago I was working in a shopping mall and once the Christmas songs started playing over the mall speakers at the start of the "season", it was truly awful. Working 8 to 12 hrs a day in a retail environment with stupid/hostile customers is bad enough, but during those 8-12 hrs one must also hear the same songs ad nauseum......truly how many times must one hear Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer song by different artists before one wants to rip the speakers down?

Then the District Manager gets the stupid idea of having all his stores play Christmas songs on a radio or whatever throughout the business day, regardless of the songs playing in the mall system......that idea was flat out refused.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

With the state of the economy, are you surprised?

It’s pretty simple. It always boils down to money. For most stores, Christmas is the best season for sales. Many stores sell more stuff between November and December than they do in the other ten months. Management gets greedy and here we are starting now so early.

And poor Thanksgiving like a poster above said
When I was in the military and met some of our fine Native American soldiers, I asked how they celebrated the holiday and a couple of them looked at me like I was crazy lol. I havent "celebrated" Thankstaking since that day...

My grocery store had Halloween candy displays up the beginning of August.

I used to work at a seasonal (Christmas) store.

We opened in AUGUST.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

One of the local home improvement stores had xmas stuff up last month.

I had to stop and just stare when I saw those trees up yesterday. My brain couldn't really process what I was seeing too well. I had to come back and take a second look. Yep, there were xmas trees right next to the Halloween outfits (which might I add looked like they were an afterthought).

Best possible course of action: don't buy stuff. It's good advice that also applies to pointless sequels: don't go see them.

ummm.....christmas in july anyone?

write to the corporate offices and complain. Encourage everyone you know to do the same thing. Let the suits know that you will take your business elsewhere if they keep increasing the holiday creep.