We don't have neither halloween nor thanksgiving here but thankfully the traditional date to put up christmas decorations is December 8th so many people wait for that, businesses of course start early as christmas products slowly encroach over November until they have taken over most stores and I did notice that the city here is already starting to put up some decorations. The funniest being a giant artificial christmas tree a couple of blocks from my house that they don't bother to remove for the rest of the year, they just take off the extra fluff and cover it with a colorful cylinder that can pass as a more neutral decoration for the park.

Oh, and bump for solved!

Thank you bump!

On November 1st, our local Walmart took all of the bags of Halloween candy off the shelves... and immediately lined them with bags of Christmas candy.

🤦

We put up the tree and most of our decorations last weekend. We just needed some happiness, and we both love Christmas decorations, and we don't really decorate much for Thanksgiving, AND we aren't doing anything in particular for Thanksgiving this year (sometimes we travel to see family)... so we broke the rules and decorated for Christmas early. My son actually said "doesn't this violate your rule of no Christmas decorations before December 1st?" which was funny. I told him I appreciate that he knows the rules, and this is a one-time exception. :D

couldn't agree more!

..now, let my jingle my bells for you! :P

This kinda reminds me of an encounter some years ago, my partner at the time when we would go for walks kept remarking at a terrace house that had it's Christmas decorations up in April, after a few weeks of seeing it he asked the owner while he was outside one time why they were still up (those kind of things annoyed him). The guy said it was simpler for people to accept that he was one of those crazy Christmas-all-year-round people rather than just someone who was just too lazy to take them down each year 🤷‍♂️.

Mind you I indirectly contribute to the early Christmas madness, where I work put out fruit mince pies, iced Christmas fruit cakes and other most decidedly not 😉 Christmassy things in the last week of May - cough "Winter Warmer's" cough 🙄.....which became "Celebrate Christmas in July" 😫 the following month before switching to "Here for the Season".....in the middle of August 🙀. Brought to you by the same people who put out Hot Cross Buns on Boxing Day.....now you know what the Ninth Circle of Hell is really for 😉.

Cheers for the jigidi, no Thanksgiving here so Christmas isn't so much on the nose here by November. If it weren't for businesses desperate attempts to keep pushing Halloween it would probably kick off earlier. I still draw the line at Christmas music before 30 days before Dec 25th. Fight me internet. 😤

Bump :)

Bump for solved!