Pages Tagged “Holiday Creep”
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- Reindeers are better than Covid…
Look, I get it, we all want to return to normal, but can we at least wait until after Halloween to put up the Christmas decorations? Spotted today during a store pickup at the mall.
- Target’s ready for…Halloween?
- Reindeer in a Rush
Christmas already? Spotted at the mall last night, a full week before Halloween.
- Holiday Creep? Yeah, We’ve Got That
Oh, come on. It’s still September. Holiday Creep is getting ridiculous. Sorry, I mean more ridiculous.
- At the grocery store. TODAY.
- New front in holiday creep
Spotted at the grocery store today.
- Halloween shopping at Costco 🙄
I didn’t even see a Halloween aisle this time, but Christmas was on full display. You know, I’ve been posting examples of holiday creep for over a decade now, and what’s changed the most is the quality of the camera I have with me when shopping. I mean, what the heck was I even carrying […]
- Going Halloween shopping. *sigh*
More Christmas in October.
- Christmas vs Halloween: The Battle Continues
Christmas strikes deeper into Halloween’s territory, continuing a relentless campaign that began decades ago in response to a 1993 incursion from Halloween Town. In recent years, Halloween has shored up its position by moving into previously unclaimed parts of the calendar in early October and September, itself running roughshod over tentative efforts by Oktoberfest to […]
- Valentine’s Day Already?
It’s been less than a week past Christmas, and the local grocery store already has a fully stocked Valentine’s Day aisle. So much for New Year’s.
- Holiday Creep at Costco
Photo: It’s barely October, and Costco already has ten times as much Christmas stuff as Halloween. And that’s not counting the vastly expanded toy section.
- I Dream of Holiday Creep
Christmas decorations already up and it’s not even Halloween. How about letting holidays actually, y’know, HAPPEN before moving onto N+2 (what happened to Thanksgiving, anyway?)
- Easter Already?
Just a few days after Valentine’s, even the Easter Bunny is disgusted at how early the decorations and store products go up. (What happened to St. Patrick’s Day, anyway?)
- September Christmas
It’s September 13. Technically it’s still SUMMER.
- Errand Observations
The Spectrum food court has ripped out the planters. I guess they realized they needed the floor space after they chopped off one end. It’s Halloween, so Target has the Christmas decorations up!
- Zune Fail, Comment Win & Holiday Creep
Weird: Zunes all over the world froze up at the same time overnight. Comment win: “like she was going to rip his arm off and beat his spleen to death with it. Not him; just his spleen” Just a quick store run – yeah along with everyone else in town. More holiday creep! I still […]
- Holiday Seasons: Then and Now
When I was a kid, I remember the last few months of the year broke down like this: Back to School in early-to-mid September Halloween for the second half of October Thanksgiving for the second half of November Christmas in December New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day These days it seems more like this: […]
- Clarify and Classify
If only the super high-tech jet fighters had identified, clarified & classified, they’d have seen the attack for what it really was. Good grief. “Traditional marriage” didn’t go away when gays were let into the club. It doesn’t need a discriminatory law to “restore” it. South Coast Plaza has Christmas decorations up ALREADY. Halloween doesn’t […]
- Christmas Creep On-Air
Went to lunch today, and the restaurant was playing Christmas music, two days before Thanksgiving. It wasn’t entirely their fault; they were just playing KOST, and the radio station had gone into full Christmas mode. Now, I normally like hearing Christmas music on the radio. It’s one of the few times of year that you […]
- Swimming in Christmas Trees
The Macy’s in the Laguna Hills Mall has a small storefront for seasonal products. In the lead-up to Christmas it’s full of decorations, ornaments, wrapping paper, and such. During the summer, it was swimwear. (I’m not sure what they use it for in winter.) I walked by today, and they seem to be in transition: […]
- More Holiday Creep
Spotted the following in a grocery store on Saturday, three days before Valentine’s Day. I think the holiday decoration/candy/card industry has started selling two holidays ahead. Christmas stuff was out in October, with both Halloween and Thanksgiving ahead. Here’s Easter stuff on sale with both Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day in the future. Decoration-wise, […]
- Starbucks Early Holiday
I stopped in a Starbucks after lunch last Wednesday. I confused the barista by ordering a frappucino—he said something about how I was going to freeze my kidneys or something, and when I remarked that I was going to be in the office, he said he was joking with everyone who ordered anything cold. (Local […]
- Christmas Gets Earlier Every Year
I dropped into Sav-on briefly today. Among other things I wanted to top off the supply of Halloween candy for Monday. Imagine my surprise to find that Halloween was crammed into half an aisle, and there were two aisles of Christmas already. (You may notice that the sign above this one doesn’t say “Seasonal” or […]