Bah Humbug!
Posted: Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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I think it was nice when christmas was just a few days, as it was in my childhood ... but now the whole christmas 'experience' has grown to months ...!! I resist putting up Xmas decos in my shop, because I find it distorts my mind, and by Dec, I've 'had enough' of Xmas, and that's not a good way to be ... However, let me just say that I had customers in the shop as early as June who told me they were 'doing their shopping for christmas', and people have been mentioning it to me regularly since end September ...
soaplady from in total agreement ...!!
...particularly Elaine's Christmas Shop...like Brigadoon it only appears for a while, then disappears again.
Flying Cat from strolling up Porteous Brae
Sad to hear this horrible phenomena seems to have spread everywhere. Hallmark starts putting out ornaments in July now and I noticed that several stores had one isle of Halloween items and right next door an isle of Christmas items. It's incredibly depressing. When is the normal time to begin putting up Christmas ornaments in Scotland? In the states it use to be AFTER Thanksgiving, we would start putting up all the outside decorations that weekend, as it was usually the last weekend before the snow started showing up. Then if you were putting up a real tree it would go up a week before Christmas.
ALZ from USA
Yes it is happening here too. The advertisements in the newspaper started in early October. They said it was because the shops were expecting a really bad season, so they wanted to start early. It seems to me that even in good times they are starting earlier and earlier. And not just Christmas. Have you noticed that if you want to buy some winter clothes, you had better start looking before winter, because during the winter all they have is spring clothes.
CVBruce from CA, USA
I refuse to put any decorations up in my place of work until 1 and a half to 2 weeks before the end of term (2nd week into December). At home, I put them up no more than 2 - 3 days before Xmas.
Library-Lass from Orkney
I fully agree with you, NJ. By 25th Dec. I'm usually sick to the teeth of commercial Christmas claptrap.
Trout magnet from looking far ahead to Christmas
I'm in full agreemetn with all the above but it is good to have a reminder that if any of my nearest and dearest are going to have the pleasure of Hebridean soaps then it is time to put pen to paper. This is not an advertisement.
Barney from Swithiod planning ahead
Its traditional to put the tree and decorations up on Christmas Eve and take them down on Twelvth Night, so that's what we do. Heathens as we are, its nice to have a structure to adhere to, thus avoiding premature decoration...
Flying Cat from make mine a pine
I too adhere to the old edict ... decorations up on Christmas Eve, down on 12th night. Frankly I consider shops decorated up months ahead to be shops to avoid! "There is a SEASON for everything under the sun".
Plaid from Christmas in summer
It always amazes me how pagan traditions taken over by religions are allowed to carry on and be shoved in our faces for as long as the government make money from them and yet other non-profitable pagan festivals such as May day would be completely got rid of if they had their way. Thankfully here the Christmas bug seems quite restrained, with some people still refusing to celebrate a pagan festival which has nothing to do with their beliefs.
tanith from lewis
Reflections and musings from a Highland lass, settled in Orkney, on life, work, and keeping ponies.
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