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November 03, 2005

It's coming

I was down at the Century City on Tuesday (Nov. 1), when the display at the Bath and Body Works caught my eye, and not in a good way. They had their Christmas display all set up, complete with garlands, ornaments and Christmas mix CD's.

It's November 1! Christmas is still nearly 60 days away! What gives? I'm all for celebrating and all, but this is getting a little too wacky. Many people, like myself, decry the "creep" of Christmas season each year. Before, Christmas decorations might show up in the middle of November, or the tenth of November, and everyone would get agitated that its too soon. Christmas had not even entered my mind until I saw the Bath & Body Works display.

I think many people long for the days of Christmas season starting the Friday after Thanksgiving. That's manageable. But November 1? Please!

But thankfully, there is a stop to this madness. If the driving force behind Christmas creep is market forces, we have ourselves a tasty barrier: Halloween. Only a true moron would set up a Christmas display before Halloween. I heard somewhere that Halloween is the second largest home-decorating holiday behind Christmas. Halloween also must generate a huge chunk of change in costume, candy, movie and music sales.

I think it would be unwise for a merchant to start selling Christmas stuff before Halloween has passed. Why miss out on Halloween profits when Christmas is two months away? Unless they ban Halloween, which is not going to happen unless something really, truly wacky happens, I don't see Christmas season ever extending into October.

I sure as hell hope it doesn't. I don't know if I can take more than a few weeks of this annual steaming pile of hooey.

Posted by oz115 at November 3, 2005 12:35 PM

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Posted by: Stat Boy at November 7, 2005 09:41 AM

Posted by: Pete at November 9, 2005 11:01 AM

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