’Kay, I don’t want to sound like Ms. Cranky-Person, but what is it with stores putting up their Christmas displays & decorations on the day after Halloween?
(& I’m not going to call them “holiday decorations” because I don’t see any Hanukkah- or Kwanzaa-themed stuff.)
Whatever happened to Thanksgiving? Used to be you had Halloween, with witches, ghosts & jack o’lanterns; then Thanksgiving, with turkeys, Pilgrims & harvest-home decorations.
THEN there was Christmas, red-&-green things, conifers, sparkly lights & snowflakes.
But yesterday when I went to Target to see if they had fountain pen cartridges (they didn’t even have fountain pens) I walked into a Christmas wonderland—red & silver ornament things hanging from the ceiling & a huge fake-Christmas tree section.
& this morning I went to the Tully’s coffee shop on Main Street in Bellevue, only to be slapped in the face with all-out Christmas: plastic greenery, strings of fairy lights & Christmas cups for your coffee.
IHOP has been advertising holiday hotcakes (maybe they’re waffles—I really don’t pay attention) for a couple of weeks—so before Halloween.
I shudder to think what Wal-Mart looks like.
Dunno if this is the inevitable onslaught of commercialism, or just retailers reacting to the second selling season in a recession. Whatever—it’s really an affront.
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