Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Old custom was after Thanksgiving, but that is long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 We’ll be hearing Christmas music in stores immediately after Valentine’s Day before you know it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Black Friday falls on November 25 this year. Traditionally that was the date that retailers books were in the black, and what followed was the gravy. Masks and social distancing gone most places, we should see more in store shopping. Interesting to see what actually happens and who makes the cut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 40 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: Old custom was after Thanksgiving, but that is long gone. I'd be happy if they are least waited until All Hallows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: I'd be happy if they are least waited until All Hallows. Dreamer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: Dreamer! Nope. Thoroughly delusional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largo casey #19191 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 It's a rackett Largo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Like Navin suddenly realized in The Jerk... "Ahhh, its a profit deal!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Ho, ho, ho, hu, hu, hum, hum, hum, humbug! I lost interest in Christmas in 1973 when I was stationed at Iwakuni, Japan. Christmas is the largest holiday in Japan and they play it to the hilt in a way that puts anything we have even today in the USA in the shade, from (in those days) about mid-September....in a country with less than 2% Christians in the entire nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I can't get too excited about it either. All there is to look forward to is the weather turning sh***y, traffic gridlock everywhere, the same cheesy music from the past 60 years played over and over, and pretending to be jolly when everyone out there is just as rude and miserable as ever. Give me the Fourth of July when I can at least blow s*** up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 "Deck us all with Boston Charley, Walla Walla Wash, and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller Dollar Cauliflower, Alley-Garoo!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Doesn’t bother me a bit. I couldn’t care less what the stores want to put out and when. There’s a lot more serious things going on this country! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 September 3rd at Sam’s Club here in WV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Sooner or later they’ll start on Boxing Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Howdy, Why not just have a Christmas section all year?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 America - the land where current supply chain problems for baby formula and food staples is pre-empted by delivery of Christmas decorations 3.5 months early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 I thought maybe I’d start shopping early this year. Till I remembered there’s no need. That bummed me out. So I went to the pharmacy and got an early flu shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: "Deck us all with Boston Charley, Walla Walla Wash, and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller Dollar Cauliflower, Alley-Garoo!" Never knew you were a POGO fan!! Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 we have met the enemy and he is us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 6 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Ho, ho, ho, hu, hu, hum, hum, hum, humbug! I lost interest in Christmas in 1973 when I was stationed at Iwakuni, Japan. Christmas is the largest holiday in Japan and they play it to the hilt in a way that puts anything we have even today in the USA in the shade, from (in those days) about mid-September....in a country with less than 2% Christians in the entire nation. I call it "Conspicuous Consumption Day." The sheer enjoyment of little kids tearing open box after box of presents, then playing with the packing box always amuses me. The digital photos I take of the grand kids at that age, are the priceless part for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 15 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Yeah ........ did all that stuff finally get off those ships that was parked outside California ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Costco up here has had their Christmas stuff out since mid August. Kids hadn't finished summer holidays yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 9 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ........ did all that stuff finally get off those ships that was parked outside California ? Prolly. Last year the stores ran out of decorations weeks before Christmas.... mebbe this stuff is what never got delivered.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 On 9/16/2022 at 12:41 PM, Rye Miles #13621 said: Doesn’t bother me a bit. I couldn’t care less what the stores want to put out and when. There’s a lot more serious things going on this country! I agree, but I don't have to join in and I resent the stuff that gets in my way or infringed on me in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Costco here in Ottawa has Christmas stuff out as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 i was "offended" ahen home depot put out the hallowwen chit last month - im not even going to xmas chit yet , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Just great. They’ll start filling the shelves in lawn and garden with Christmas ornaments, lights and TD Jakes greeting cards real soon. HD and Lowes will go to crap too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 9/17/2022 at 5:29 AM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ........ did all that stuff finally get off those ships that was parked outside California ? 15 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Prolly. Last year the stores ran out of decorations weeks before Christmas.... mebbe this stuff is what never got delivered.... I am guessing this may be the case. Warehouses full of late deliveries taking up space and in addition the stores receiving complaints from uptight and crabby people last year that they didn’t have what the customers needed. I have decided that I like it. I like Christmas. It puts me in a good mood. I’d rather be in a good mood as the weather starts to turn than to be grumpy because the leaves are changing and temps are cooling. I think I will go to Sam’s Club and pick up a big decoration to put on my little. porch this year. Heck, I might even put it up early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 When I go shopping I go in to buy what I need, I may look at some sales but if I’m not interested I walk buy it. I’m not buying any Christmas or Halloween stuff so that’s why it doesn’t bother me one bit, let the store make money! I’m in favor of capitalism! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 I decided to buy this: IMG_9346.MOV Merry Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 I used to really enjoy Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 me too but not so much anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Same here. Birthdays, too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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