For far too long Christmas has dominated the holiday season. Yes, these is more than one holiday celebrated in December. But its the over commercialized bastard of a holiday known as Christmas that dominates it. I just saw a commercial for 'holiday themed' flavors of Coffee Mate creams. One week before Halloween, I'm seeing these damned commercials. I'm kinda shocked I haven't seen anything in stores yet. Although, I do see Halloween related items already on clearance.
Now, back to the war on Christmas. I have nothing against the holiday itself. Its the over commercialization of it. You know the day after Halloween, you're to be seeing way too many Christmas commercials airing. I say this about it, wait until after Thanksgiving to air them. Then go nuts.
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Holidays are all about big business. There's just not much money in Halloween. Think about it, candy and costume companies benefit, that's about it. But Christmas...Christmas time comes, and EVERYTHING is profitable.
That's why there's always a bombardment of ads, TV specials, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if big business/government try and institute some other money maker "holiday" to boost sales.
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Oh, I know nothing will be done. Its just ranting.
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I've already seen some Christmas stuff in stores, and it's not even Halloween yet. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year...but I don't even start to think about it until after Thanksgiving.
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The other day i was at target looking for some halloween stuff, and on the wall next to/behind the few aisles of halloween stuff, there was a bunch of big outside christmas decorations plugged in and lit up, and i was just annoyed. Also the dollar store has a whole wall full of christmas stuff. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year, but it's just way too early.
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I was at the hardware store recently and saw a big display of Christmas lights being put up. I was doubly pissed off. Firstly cause of Christmas lights being sold before Halloween has even happened and secondly cause they were all LED Christmas lights which are total dog shit.
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Otown407Soldier wrote:
I saw chritmas lights last week. I almost drove thru thier house, fuck them!
I agree completely Debris, wait untill after Thanksgiving sheesh.
Are you sure the lights were for Christmas? I see more and more people putting lights on their houses for Halloween all the time.
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I saw chritmas lights last week. I almost drove thru thier house, fuck them!
I agree completely Debris, wait untill after Thanksgiving sheesh.
Are you sure the lights were for Christmas? I see more and more people putting lights on their houses for Halloween all the time.
Sadly yes there were no Halloween decorations and not Halloween colors.
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I have to vent some frustration here now. I went into Target the other day to buy some classic monster movies on DVD that I wanted to watch on Halloween (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc). I figured the stores would be carrying these movie due to the time of year it is. Well I go to their movie section and I see none of those movies, but they already have a big Christmas movie section out with nothing but Christmas movies. I mean, seriously? Did they think the Christmas movies would just be flying off the shelf at this time of year, but it would be a waste of time and money to put any monster movies out?
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I have to vent some frustration here now. I went into Target the other day to buy some classic monster movies on DVD that I wanted to watch on Halloween (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc). I figured the stores would be carrying these movie due to the time of year it is. Well I go to their movie section and I see none of those movies, but they already have a big Christmas movie section out with nothing but Christmas movies. I mean, seriously? Did they think the Christmas movies would just be flying off the shelf at this time of year, but it would be a waste of time and money to put any monster movies out?
Yea that seems pretty dumb. Stores like Target and Walmart spend big money hiring marketing people. The layout of the store and the items on display are all strategically planned to make the store the most money. I noticed there is a lot less Halloween candy on display closer to Halloween than in September. The stores know these items will not sell much beyond the holiday so they limit their inventory. I had a hard time last week finding the candy in the store. They may have the same idea with the movie selection. Sadly profit always comes first with business.
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Ice-skating, carroling, snowmen, chopping down a real tree, homemade everything (i.e. eggnog, fruitcake, gingerbread house, tree ornaments), advent calendar, volunteering/community service, reading "the night before christmas"
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