Christmas creep was happening 100 years ago, thanks capitalism.
All holidays are shaped by consumerism. Mother’s day, valentines day, st Patrick’s day, it’s all about selling more shit.
The entire pyramid collapses if consumers don’t consume.
Ironically they are making it much more difficult to consume by making wages stagnant, while increasing inflation. I can’t wait for it to backfire on them.
Could they be out of touch with reality?
No, it’s reality that is out of touch with them!
Indentured servants are more exploitable than consumers; you don’t have to solicit for their money with goods.
Sounds like a phenomenal system to build a global economy on /s
Doing my part with the easiest thing we could do if we actually cared about the suffering in the world.
They start stocking the shelves with Christmas crap a week before Halloween now
They start early September in Canada… so fed up….
There were decorations for sale at Costco in California in late August. Decorative gourd season decorations hadn’t even shown up yet.
I want to buy Halloween decorations during the week before Halloween, and they were already closing up
aight no money for you I guess
I am annoyed by Christmas before Thanksgiving, but the change doesn’t seem that egregious, just avoiding the case where it could be a week later than usual:
in 1863, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln established the last Thursday of November as the official date for Thanksgiving to be celebrated each year. Following this tradition, every president thereafter declared a general day of Thanksgiving to be observed on the last Thursday in November. However, in 1939, during the Great Depression, November had five Thursdays, and the last one fell on November 30, which left little time for the Christmas shopping season. To address this concern, in August 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to break from tradition and issued an executive order declaring that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on November 23 instead of November 30.
Also it didn’t work:
A 1941 Commerce Department survey found no significant expansion of retail sales due to the change.
Why is it so late in the US anyways? Other countries have this right after the harvest season.
I’m quitting Christmas this year. No gifts, no attending the annoying semi-mandatory work Christmas party, none of all this corporate crap which has encroached on a holiday that was once about family to me.
It’s not even December yet and it’s already been incredibly freeing not having to worry about any of it this year. I’ll visit family, but that’ll be it. Should have opted out years ago.That was always an option. Do people celebrate this differently than that?
Non-gifting pacts with your siblings, also very recommended.
I quit being annoyed by Christmas cookies starting being sold in September. Also very freeing.
It’s all about little life hacks to ignore Christmas.
A couple of decades ago, my entire family decided we’d all just go on vacation together. No gifts, just enjoy the company. It was fantastic. Since then, almost every x-mas I go on a trip. I’ve been broke forever, so often these trips, are just a week or so camping. People are welcome to come along, but if not, they know that I’m not part of any festivities they have planned. I still get a little pit-of-the-stomach feeling when the time of year rolls back around again, but it is far less than it used to be, and I find myself feeling much better for the coming year.
At that time, it was generally frowned upon for retailers to display Christmas decorations or hold Christmas sales prior to Thanksgiving—a trend later referred to as “Christmas creep.”
At least we don’t have that problem anymore! /s
July fucking 5th. I saw Christmas trees for sale on July the fucking 5th.
I absolutely refuse to engage with Christmas until December 12th now. I told my wife spooky season extends to Christmas day. I have neighbors with skeletons still out, so I’m sure I’m not alone.
FDR was unarguably the most socialist president the US has ever had
FDR was the president who did the most to increase social welfare, but he was still a capitalist.
This is the US you’re talking about, they consider it nice if their elected officials apply lube before raping them.
What about Teddy Roosenvelt?
Thanksgiving has always been in October
Canadian thanksgiving is best thanksgiving
I wanted to burn a target down when I went there at noon on Halloween and the Halloween section was already stripped bare to make room for xmas shit. I made my purchase last minute elsewhere so there would be more candy on Halloween to give out. There’s no bigger shame than in having to turn the porch lights off early because half the candy got eaten before Halloween.
Damn, what a concept. If people buy extra in this time period, it is 100% crap that they don’t need. Otherwise, they would be buying it, no matter when it gets stocked. So, the way to combat an economic crisis is to produce more garbage. Incredible.
According to the article it didn’t even work - there wasn’t a noticeable increase in spending.
Ah, thanks, I hadn’t read that far. It says this:
A 1941 Commerce Department survey found no significant expansion of retail sales due to the change.
With this as source: https://www.nytimes.com/1941/05/21/archives/thanksgiving-goes-back-to-old-date-in-42-president-says-change-did.html
We kept Thanksgiving in early October in Canada and they still start advertising for Christmas as soon as Halloween is done.
Finally figured out why retailers keep moving up the date on Christmas stuff. Consumers are only going to spend $X on decorations and the like. If you’re late getting those on the shelf, that money has already been given to your competitor.
So, it’s not greed, it’s, “Want the sale or not?”
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Wait. Shopping stops?
