AllThatGlitters
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Has anyone else had enough of the Christmas stuff? I am absolutely not in the mood for Christmas yet - hours and hours of bliddy LED reindeer is depressing me beyond words.
Has anyone else had enough of the Christmas stuff? I am absolutely not in the mood for Christmas yet - hours and hours of bliddy LED reindeer is depressing me beyond words.
Totally agree! If you have to start spending for Christmas in October are people not spending too much?I hate all this 'get organised now to save stress' carp what they should say is we want to you to part with as much cash as we can get out of you ( & don't care if you can't afford)
Christmas should be a nice relaxing time but instead it is turned into stress, stress & more stress.I escape & have done for years & will continue to do so as long as I can crawl to some sort of transport to get away from this madness ( & in doing so will spend a lot less than I would staying here!)
Perhaps we should have a national referendum as to when Christmas should 'start'?
Beg Sept/Oct, early mid Dec?
I'm going to Bruges for the Christmas market which start end Nov.
Some contributors to this forum live on the continent, when does Christmas 'start' for them?
I feel this is a British phenomenon? & possibly US?
I go to Spain which is very low key& then they have the Three Kings celebarations in January But nothing like the madness we have here.
Because the US is big on Halloween and then has Thanksgiving, Christmas traditionally starts the day after Thanksgiving. The big Thanksgiving day parade in New York ends with the arrival of Santa to Macy's and that is the kick off. Not saying that there's not stuff around, but it's overshadowed by other holidays. It has seemed to me over the years that the UK start is after Bonfire night.[/QUOTE]
Yes but Sains. sell Christmas cards in Aug.
I was meaning the sort of Big Push. The garden centre near us puts up Santa's grotto in August, along with the trees and the decs. I think people twig "oh no, Christmas" after Bonfire Night.