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I think Christmas was more fun and meaningful when there wasn't a three or four month build-up to it. The Dutch are now thinking about Sinterklaas and get onto Christmas after that. In the US Thanksgiving does the same thing. We need a new holiday around the end of November.
Some shops started getting Christmas stuff in late Aug / early Sept. If you add on the Jan sales period, there are people out there who'll have been eating mince pies and family tins of Quality Street for five months by the time supplies finally run out (just in time for three months of Easter eggs).
Harrods, Selfridges et al usually have their Christmas departments from mid-August - they're after the tourist dollars, yen, dirham, roubles etc etc... There's a Christmas shop in Sausalito CA open all year round - nobody seems to mind as they know it's (again) aimed at tourists....
  • 11 months later...

MartinRockey Wrote:

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> Christmas shops are almost everywhere. That is why

> in our house, we bring out the Christmas

> decorations as early as October, we have already

> bought Christmas wreaths and artificial flowers

> last September.


shameless plug by a first time poster!

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > eating mince pies and family tins of Quality

> > Street for five months

>

> I'm trying to figure out what's bad about that...


You don't have to just sit and gorge. Close the curtains and tune in to the True Christmas channel. Available 24/7.

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