Only 122 days of shopping left :/

I found Thanksgiving in a grocery store or two the other week, but wow. It's a weird feeling to see it and then think the stuff in between somehow matters less. Maybe others don't have that thought. It's just depressing to see, or, mildly infuriating.

It's not even Rosh Hashanah yet.

Huh, isn't that just plastic bullshit? Why is it so expensive?

Home Depot and Lowes have Halloween decorations in already, but that's almost kind of reasonable. Ish.

Having Christmas stuff in August is just absurd, unless it's one of those dedicated Christmas stores that's open year-round for some reason. (Do those still exist? The only two I knew of near me either went out of business or became online-only years ago.)

My wife said she saw an ad for Christmas stuff at Spirit Halloween.

JFC even Michael’s (which is a crafting store) doesn’t have their Christmas stuff out yet! And if you’re hand-crafting Christmas gifts for the whole family, sooner is better than later to start lol

That's just too funny

This is XERXES. TriOptimum reminds you that there are only one-hundred-sixty-three shopping days until Christmas. An extra work cycle just twice a week will give you the spending money you need to make this holiday a very special one.

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closest I ever saw to a dedicated xmass store was a figurine place that always had an xmass section which became practically the whole store come november.

I find it hilarious how this pisses people off. Why does anyone give a fuck what a store sells?

Stores have always sold heaps of stuff that you don’t buy, why do Christmas decorations give you testicular torsion?

Whatever company this is can fuck right off

Okay. When I walk into a Lowe's to buy a power drill, the entire aisle of bathroom sinks on the other side of the 5 acre store don't bother me at all, because they're back there.

When they start putting out the Halloween decorations for sale in April or the Christmas shit in August, they put that right at the entrance, it tends to make noise, it's often scented, and especially with the Christmas shit they start playing non-stop Christmas music over the store's speakers. So we get half a fucking year now of either the same old shit, or this year's repackaging of the same old shit. It is actively bothersome.

Like, you walk into Michael's and there's always an aisle of wreaths and pine fronds back there. And it stays there year round. That's fine. They don't choose an increasing number of months out of the year to wave it in your face as you walk in.

Add to that the ever-increasing commercial nature of the holiday and it's just...ugly.

so people can get their loans approved early and have stockings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKKTR0Sg7k

Its not so much about what they sell and what they sell, its more about that stores do this to squeeze every last penny out of an event that supposedly for once should would not be about money, cheapening the entire thing to just another money tit for the rich

That's what pisses people off

The only good thing about this early jump start in holidays is the food. You will start seeing stuffing mix, pumpkin pie, egg nog, and other holiday foods in the grocery store soon.

When in the hell has Christmas ever been anything but, about the money?

The time before modern manufacturing and/or WW2.

When recieving an orange in the north in winter was considered special.

Sure pal.. gonna need a source on that.

Michael's does do seasonal stuff up front too. My wife loves raiding the marked down Halloween stuff for witchy decor in November.

Ive stories from my great granparents, and old movies as my reference. The fact that it was impossible to mass manufacture cheap plastic crap then is a large indicator in to how its changed in the last 100-120 years. The whole world was set up differently, and over consumption wasnt at all like it is today.

but maybe this will help someone who knows no history of the land. Though its really a fluffy article. Feel free to look up the histories of christmas in your own time. Im not deep diving rn.

https://oldworldchristmas.com/blogs/the-yule-blog/christmas-through-the-decades-best-christmas-traditions-from-1900-to-today

and another (maybe better)

https://dengarden.com/news/what-was-christmas-like-100-years-ago

from the second link:

For centuries, Christmas was first and foremost a religious observance. But by the early 1900s, the holiday shifted toward consumerism, according to Democracy & Me.

Other commercial Christmas traditions of today also began to bloom in the late 1800s and early 1900s, such as glass tree ornaments, Christmas cards, Christmas gift-giving and Christmas charity, per History Today. That said, these customs were much more modest than they are today — for instance, in 1900, only one in five people in the U.S. had a Christmas tree.

To edit, this is an USian perspective (the museum is in the state Gerogia from the second article). How ever it was different in other places where christmas is a big holiday, the time line of mass manufacturing is not all that different. The US is really known for it's loud and boisterous ways, and imo, is a leader in overconsumption at cost.

Guess I am deep diving. The second dengarden article offers a source "Democracy & Me" and here it is, plainly for you, for reference. This is actually where Id click first, it is the most comprehensive.

https://democracyandme.org/christmases-long-long-ago-the-evolution-of-christmas-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/

Christmas in the 1800’s
Although Christmas celebrations date back to the third century, many of the Christmas traditions celebrated today have origins in the 1800’s. The nineteenth Century brought about a transformation of the Christmas holiday from a relatively quiet religious observance to a grand cultural celebration marked by tradition, transformation, and the influence of many European traditions. Indeed, Christmas traditions and customs developed during the 1800’s still impact holiday practices in the US and the Western world today. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, Christmas was a primarily religious holiday in many parts of the world. However, as the century progressed, the holiday underwent a gradual transformation, particularly in Western societies.