🦃 Slow your roll, fat boy!!! 🎅🏻

puts up xmas lights

Starts rolling slower and screaming: I'm not fat I'm fluffy!

I saw some (rather decent) Christmas lights going up in October. By now I try to see them as "Winter lights", as long as they are not themed too clearly or - which I think should be punishable by cutting them off the power grid - blinking lights in all colours.

Merry Thanksgiving! 😋

Nice pic! Bump

Expiration time?

One of the biggest radio stations around here switched to full time Christmas music over a month ago. I was ready to murder someone.

Thanks for the jigidi:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3fYwWlb4Wo&ab_channel=TheDeadSouth

I guess the premature christmas decorations is worldwide (at least to countries that celebrate it).
We dont have thanksgiving, but on 18th of november we have the proclamation day of our country. So up to 18th its all in patriotic setting and usually switches to Christmas decorations and lights after that. But there were some stores which put up some decorations already in october.

Honestly I dont care that much. I like christmas. And I know this is even more contraversial, but I dont even mind Mariah Carrey coming out of her summer slumber to overtake all radio stations :D

That's why I always didn't understand the premature New Year's rush, especially the music design in the shopping center, so it's not without reason that I always wear my full-size headphones.

Here (Sheep Pain) there's no tradition for xmas lights housewise. Maybe a couple things in the windows, like vinyls or climbing santas with a few lights. Maybe some balconies go full blown with lights, but it's a balcony, not a 2-stories house the size of an air-carrier. But they wait till december, usually the 8th, which is the traditional day to put the Belén (from Bethlehem, it's a miniature nativity scene). Towns and cities also turn on the xmas street lights around that time. There you see the budget of the whole town. The richer the town, the better the lights. Of course. So, visually, here they don't go full xmas-mode until the first week of december has passed.

Commercially, you'd say visually it's the same. But you can enter any big mall and see xmas stuff everywhere for sale already. Since october, any decent supermarket is full of all kinds of xmas sweets and related food and I bet every year they start sooner. I've been seeing that stuff since mid october this year. Sooner or later you'll see it in september when kids go back to school.

Here, people who put their small xmas details in their windows too early are also heavily criticized.

Thanksgiving is not celebrated everywhere. Most people in European countries don't actually know when it is.
So for us having xmas decorations up this early is perfectly justified.
But i get your frustration. Sellers pushing you for spending your money has no limits. Take care!