This needs to stop...srsly...
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Posted on: 2011-10-08 08:53 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
And I'm suprised with all the greedy people and how far things have gone all money they haven't just gotten a rid of thanksgiving well technically many now write it off as "turkey day" which is so stupid but just to like merge thanksgiving into the black Friday which comes right after. ._.
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Pfft... "Turkey day"...
"Pie day" or "stuffing day" perhaps. Even the most awesome turkey is best left until the next day, when its flavour has been magnified by the magical leftover elves, and no one is there to judge you for the sandwiches you make of it.
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A serious question is whether or not years of conditioning is adversely affecting the economy. Do people put off buying things for themselves until Black Friday due to the sales, making that period between US Thanksgiving and New Years skewed even more than it was say in the 60s or 70s? I tend to buy my expensive "toys" during this period as well as the usual holiday gifts for others. Do people start holding off big ticket purchases in the weeks or months before Black Friday? Superbowl sales for TVs? Back to School sales for computers and clothes?
And if the holiday season is when a large chunk of discretionary buying occurs for retailers you can understand that in tougher times their willingness to extend the season earlier than normal. It's just the continuing creep that annoys me. That and you can't buy a winter jacket in the winter or swimwear in the summer because they are only stocking for the next season or two and not the current one.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
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).
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Halloxmas? Where witches sing "Oh Halloxmas Tree"? And Frankenstein's monster punches holes through your wall to leave tidings of candy corn and wooden trains? Wooden trains, I might add, that were crafted by werewolves who wore green pants and dingle-bell slippers. The halls are decked with mummy wrappers and the tree topper is a little ghost.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Perhaps those were actually Christmas tree COSTUMES.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Halloxmas? Where witches sing "Oh Halloxmas Tree"? And Frankenstein's monster punches holes through your wall to leave tidings of candy corn and wooden trains? Wooden trains, I might add, that were crafted by werewolves who wore green pants and dingle-bell slippers. The halls are decked with mummy wrappers and the tree topper is a little ghost.
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Holiday.
Ever.
Edit: OK, no, more like:
Best.
Holiday.
Ever.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Halloxmas? Where witches sing "Oh Halloxmas Tree"? And Frankenstein's monster punches holes through your wall to leave tidings of candy corn and wooden trains? Wooden trains, I might add, that were crafted by werewolves who wore green pants and dingle-bell slippers. The halls are decked with mummy wrappers and the tree topper is a little ghost.
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I'm already asking nephews and nieces for choices before prices go through roof and stuff sells out.. 
Oh and how come no-one's brought up Jack Skellington for Halloxmas yet?
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Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Maybe they're skipping over the Halloween a bit because there's less money in it?
I know every Halloween I get a bit sadder as I see less and less kids dressed up in halloween costumes and you're lucky if they're wearing a mask when they come to the door and not just normal clothes with a big bag for candy.
Of course, I've also moved to a place were it tends to be COOOOLD at the end of October, so it could just be "If I was wearing a costume I'd just be covering it up with lots of warmer clothes"?
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They've been moving the Christmas shopping season up one day every year for most of my life.
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Been saying the same thing since the '90s. If it's a bad economy, they'll use the "head start" notion as an excuse to get back in the black; if it's a good economy, they'll use it to try to drum up even more profits. As the winos say, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" (aka: they'll always have a good excuse).|
Originally Posted by Lastjustice
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.
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Poor thanksgiving always gets ignored.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
Halloxmas? Where witches sing "Oh Halloxmas Tree"? And Frankenstein's monster punches holes through your wall to leave tidings of candy corn and wooden trains? Wooden trains, I might add, that were crafted by werewolves who wore green pants and dingle-bell slippers. The halls are decked with mummy wrappers and the tree topper is a little ghost.
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Edit: beat to the punch by DreamWeaver
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It's quite relevant to the topic. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, finds out about another holiday called Christmas and tries to take it over. Kidnapping and hijinks ensue. And it's better than thinking over the retail holiday crawl.
Personally, instead of Christmas leaking into Halloween, I think it should be the other way around. Tell that red-clad fat man to shove it up his stocking!
The over commercialization of Christmas is why I gave up on it as a holiday. I celebrate Festivus instead.
A Festivus for the rest of us!
Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm off to go and shop for a new aluminum pole...
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Ah, Festivus (aka National Stripper Appreciation Day - hence the branches missing off the tree and the silver pole).|
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Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm off to go and shop for a new aluminum pole...
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Personally, even as an orthodox Jedi (ie: the three prequels are heresy and never happened), I happen to like Christmas. It's a big shiny gaudy feast in the middle of winter with lots of fun, lots of laughs and nephews and nieces to overfeed and send back to their parents loaded with caffeine and sugar.
I dislike the pressure to give bigger/better gifts every year-much as I'd love to give nephew #2 the Lego Millennium Falcon, I'm not shelling out £120+ for it. Besides, I'd want to keep it.
So.. have as much fun as you want, decorate how you want, eat what you want, ignore everybody else's pressure, and call it what you want.
Just not Life Day.
That never happened either.
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
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Personally, even as an orthodox Jedi (ie: the three prequels are heresy and never happened) |
on topic, I work for a major teddy bear retail company and even we don't get out the Xmas stuff until 1st November, after Halloween, which I consider just about acceptable.
tbf, some people have to buy early, I know someone who works on oil rigs for several months at a time, he oftern is away for the october/november time and only gets about a week before xmas back inland so being able to buy it early is good for him.
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Thanksgiving and Halloween I'm not so concerned about, but I'm sick of X-mas crap trampling all over Rememberance Day. Yeah yeah, businesses need to make money, but at least have the decency to not spit on the graves of fallen soldiers by tossing up gaudy displays everywhere but the cenotaph itself.
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Sounds very extreme with the "spitting on the graves" and whatnot. Honestly though, it seems to me that if you're not military or closely related to the military...the majority don't put much emphasis on Veteran's Day. Christmas will always super uppercut and beat it out economicaly like it does all the other holidays (probably all of them put together actually). |
Originally Posted by Black Zot
Thanksgiving and Halloween I'm not so concerned about, but I'm sick of X-mas crap trampling all over Rememberance Day. Yeah yeah, businesses need to make money, but at least have the decency to not spit on the graves of fallen soldiers by tossing up gaudy displays everywhere but the cenotaph itself.
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Be prepared to be sick of the "X-mas crap trampling all over Remmberance Day" for the rest of your days...Im sure it will only get worse.
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1. November 11th is a much bigger deal in Canada than the US.|
Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
Sounds very extreme with the "spitting on the graves" and whatnot. Honestly though, it seems to me that if you're not military or closely related to the military...the majority don't put much emphasis on Veteran's Day. Christmas will always super uppercut and beat it out economicaly like it does all the other holidays (probably all of them put together actually).
Be prepared to be sick of the "X-mas crap trampling all over Remmberance Day" for the rest of your days...Im sure it will only get worse. |
2. My grandfather is a decorated WW2 naval veteran, so it's quite personal for me, thank you.
Here's a secret... Christmas has always been commercialized in any form you know it as.
The christmas that wasn't commercialized you do not want that to happen.
As far as the reason for christmas... it's one of the oldest traditions that mankind has done. Further back than any religious or commercial stuff that was associated with it. Same with Halloween and Easter... those "holidays" are very important to us as a race. They've just been stolen by various religions over the years.
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I never said the holiday wasn't big elsewhere...its actually celebrated in like 15-20 other countries if Im not mistaken; I just pointed out its not that big of a day here for most.|
Originally Posted by Black Zot
1. November 11th is a much bigger deal in Canada than the US.
2. My grandfather is a decorated WW2 naval veteran, so it's quite personal for me, thank you. |
Its also a personal day for me since I, like some Ive noted on the forums, am a decorated veteran of many of the military conflicts/operations within the last decade (and I still work in Afghanistan from time to time as a civilian at this point).
That said, I still dont see the correlation between the concept of companies/corporation's drive to make as much money as possible and disrespect aimed at our fallen or current soldiers/airmen/sailors/marines through the over commercialism of Xmas. I dont claim a religious faith, but it would seem to be more insulting to Christians than any other particular group.
I salute your grandfather and salute you as well for paying homage to a concept/holiday when many dont know/care about the history behind it.
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As far as the OP, yeah way to early for Christmas, they should be more focused on Halloween sales, and put Christmas up the first of November. If they are out of Halloween items this early they are losing sales.
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