What Bookertoo is saying is that some people need it on th shelves that early.
Those who don't like it have only to walk past the display to what they do want - just as I walk past all the crisps and cola sand other junk food in a supermarket every single week of the year without begrudging them shelf space.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I enjoy celebrating at Christmas and New Year with my family and friends. I understand the way that Christians have adopted the old midwinter festival, but for me the deep-seated need is to celebrate Midwinter - possibly having had my first baby at the Midwinter Solstice may be something to do with it As someone who loves Nature, 'decking the halls with boughs of holly' etc has always had significance for me, and as someone who enjoys cooking, I look forward to the preparation of the 'feast' and make puddings and pies (and countless lists) well beforehand.
But as for the C*mas Shopping! I start that when I'm ready .... and not before!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm one of those who has to get organised early. Presents have to be bought and wrapped as there are people in Newcastle and Cheshire who we won't see after mid-November.
One annoyance is the lack of choice of birthday cards for anyone who has a birthday from October onwards as all the space is taken up with Christmas cards. Maybe I should get organised with that early too
Thanks for the reminder about C....... I need some new tree lights and left it until December last year and couldn't find any I liked. So a trip to GC is on the cards just for lights honestly.
My daughter is a January baby and does very well out of the January sales now that her main desire for presents is clothes, boots etc. Even managed a few good deals the years it was PC and other technology.
OH and I are early December and late November babies so I always refused to get Xmassy till after his but in Belgium we also have St Nicholas to contend with on the 6th. Possum still expects prezzies then and when she was little OH used it as an excuse to have the house decorated for his birthday on the 7th. I resist as long as possible and they all come down on 12th night.
Definitely a winter solstice fest here.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
When my son was small we put up decorations for his birthday on the 22nd - but the tree didn't go up until the day after his birthday - in an attempt to make his day different and special for him.
This year I suspect that for the first year ever we won't put a tree up - we're with MIL for Christmas Day, and then the Lovely Builder arrives here to decorate the kitchen, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, hall and landing!
But we will have an arrangement of holly, ivy, pinecones etc that can just be plonked in the garden when the builders arrive.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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if customers didn't buy it in October, the retailers wouldn't have it on the shelves.
What Bookertoo is saying is that some people need it on th shelves that early.
Those who don't like it have only to walk past the display to what they do want - just as I walk past all the crisps and cola sand other junk food in a supermarket every single week of the year without begrudging them shelf space.
Aaaaaagggggghhhhh!
I enjoy celebrating at Christmas and New Year with my family and friends. I understand the way that Christians have adopted the old midwinter festival, but for me the deep-seated need is to celebrate Midwinter - possibly having had my first baby at the Midwinter Solstice may be something to do with it
As someone who loves Nature, 'decking the halls with boughs of holly' etc has always had significance for me, and as someone who enjoys cooking, I look forward to the preparation of the 'feast' and make puddings and pies (and countless lists) well beforehand.
But as for the C*mas Shopping! I start that when I'm ready .... and not before!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm one of those who has to get organised early. Presents have to be bought and wrapped as there are people in Newcastle and Cheshire who we won't see after mid-November.
One annoyance is the lack of choice of birthday cards for anyone who has a birthday from October onwards as all the space is taken up with Christmas cards. Maybe I should get organised with that early too
I agree Lesley - both my son and my OH have birthdays in the week before Christmas! Birthday cards are on my shopping list NOW!
And as for those of us who have birthdays in January - unless people have planned ahead all we get is what is left in the New Year Sales
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for the reminder about C....... I need some new tree lights and left it until December last year and couldn't find any I liked. So a trip to GC is on the cards
just for lights honestly.
My daughter is a January baby and does very well out of the January sales now that her main desire for presents is clothes, boots etc. Even managed a few good deals the years it was PC and other technology.
OH and I are early December and late November babies so I always refused to get Xmassy till after his but in Belgium we also have St Nicholas to contend with on the 6th. Possum still expects prezzies then and when she was little OH used it as an excuse to have the house decorated for his birthday on the 7th. I resist as long as possible and they all come down on 12th night.
Definitely a winter solstice fest here.
Mike - can I move in with you this December?
When my son was small we put up decorations for his birthday on the 22nd - but the tree didn't go up until the day after his birthday - in an attempt to make his day different and special for him.
This year I suspect that for the first year ever we won't put a tree up - we're with MIL for Christmas Day, and then the Lovely Builder arrives here to decorate the kitchen, sitting room, dining room, bathroom, hall and landing!
But we will have an arrangement of holly, ivy, pinecones etc that can just be plonked in the garden when the builders arrive.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.