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HeadSet says

I like the Holidays, my wife knows how to cook a turkey (and so do many others I have had T-Day with), I like Christmas music and cheer, I like the family and friend get-togethers and even an office present exchange. Egg nogg and Xmas cookies - lots to like. What I do not like is the January after New Year's, where it just drab and dark.

I just don't like my/our family (not talking my spouse and kids). I don't like that children just expect gifts to be thrown at them for xmas. We don't host either Thanksgiving or Xmas, so we have little control over food. It's a miserable kick off to the miserable season. Hence why we travel a lot. I'd rather be on vacation instead of with my in laws or my own family. Never got the holiday cheer or spirit. It's all fake,at least from my experience.

Why do I give a shit if stores sell typical Christmas crap from China in June or August or February?

Give me a good reason

I did all of my Christmas shopping online; I bought my GF a 2021 iPad for $280.

I'm spending Christmas in Baja and it's pretty fun although also a bit hectic.

Thanksgiving turkeys all lined up for dinner!

BayArea says

Why do I give a shit if stores sell typical Christmas crap from China in June or August or February?

Give me a good reason

Because it's merchants fucking with our culture for profit.

It's a violation of tradition. It's a lot like being forced to call women men and vice versa.

Christmas goes AFTER Thanksgiving, and men are NOT women.

jykiodfgr says

They are early because they thought port congestion wouldn't have been resolved by Christmas. The incoming depression made the goods arrive early and they got nowhere to store them so off to the stores they go.

You folks are pretty.... low information.

So far, your predictions are...
1. Frozen Europeans in the milliions
2. Billions of jabbed deaths
and now
3. Upcoming depression

Lowes is full of xmas trees already.

WookieMan says

Thanksgiving can eat a turd too. No one knows how to make a fucking turkey the right way yet I'm subjected to eat dry ass turkey and other random shit foods that no one knows how to cook.

clambo says

I bought my GF a 2021 iPad for $280.

ooooohh,,,she love you long time

BayArea says

Why do I give a shit if stores sell typical Christmas crap from China in June or August or February?

Give me a good reason

Because BY GOD,, IT'S UNAMERICAN

If thanksgiving dinners are such a special treat, why don't restaurants offer them on their menus year round?

Patrick says

BayArea says

Why do I give a shit if stores sell typical Christmas crap from China in June or August or February?

Give me a good reason

Because it's merchants fucking with our culture for profit.

It's a violation of tradition. It's a lot like being forced to call women men and vice versa.

Christmas goes AFTER Thanksgiving, and men are NOT women.

Patrick, all fair points

I guess I long ago abandoned anything our stores do and set an example for my own family around Christmas time: Christ, family, tradition.

But to your point, they destroy our culture with baby steps, thanks for the sharing your side of the argument.

guys before it was “cancel stores not doing christmas”, now its cancel stores doing it too soon. can we slow down the autism?

yeah its stupid imo what they doing, but economy is shit. what do you want?

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

what do you want?

I want them to wait until the day after Thanksgiving.

HeadSet says

Egg nogg and Xmas cookies - lots to like.

You forgot the bowl of mixed nut with N-toes

komputodo says

WookieMan says

Thanksgiving can eat a turd too. No one knows how to make a fucking turkey the right way yet I'm subjected to eat dry ass turkey and other random shit foods that no one knows how to cook.

That's the kind of Thanksgiving cranberry I grew up with. I still like it better than actual cranberries.

Patrick says

komputodo says

WookieMan says

Thanksgiving can eat a turd too. No one knows how to make a fucking turkey the right way yet I'm subjected to eat dry ass turkey and other random shit foods that no one knows how to cook.

That's the kind of Thanksgiving cranberry I grew up with. I still like it better than actual cranberries.

I hate the fucking holidays. Thanksgiving and Xmas specifically. I don't need or want people to give me shit that I don't like. I think I was 32 and said fuck it. It was March and I dropped $1k on a watch I had always wanted. No one else could afford to get it for me besides my wife. She thought it was frivolous. As dumb as it sounds it made me happy.

Ever since then I've had the mindset if you want something just get it. You live life once. I don't expect other people to buy stuff for me that THEY think will make me happy. How about we just hang out and have good times. Maybe a white elephant. Otherwise you don't know what I want. It's a big ask for family and friends to get me a $1k watch. Or a vacation. I can buy my own underwear. I don't need shitty off brand clothes that fit like shit. If you want to give me something either a Visa gift card or gift card to a legit nice restaurant.

Also food traditions. As komputodo states, if Thanksgiving food was good all restaurants would have a turkey dish. They don't. Why? The turkey you eat at Thanksgiving is generally made by people that have zero cooking skills. They pull a small dick move and get the biggest turkey they can get their hands on. Don't brine it. Overcook it so the outside meat is fucked and the inside is dry. So guess what, no restaurant makes it because no one likes it and it won't sell to the public, but family is too afraid to admit their Thanksgiving meal is a San Francisco street turd.

Xmas is just as bad. Overcooked prime rib or shitty ham. I like both, but until you've had the real deal of either, I generally take a couple bites and puke. The benefits of having a chef friend. Pumped to see him in January for a show. He can bring an InstantPot to a hotel room and cook a gourmet meal. No oven or stove. He's taught me a lot. Like most cooks and chefs, he tends to drink too much. He could kill it in a big city, but I think he's too lazy and drunk. Good dude. Known him since I was 5. Fuck Thanksgiving. That's all.

I'm hearing Christmas music in several stores, and the Home Depot, had Christmas decorations out just days before Halloween.
I think retailers are panicking, and the Commie Liberals that make Policy are telling stores to promote Christmas early this year, to boost the failing economy.
This year the early promotion of Christmas is different, It's pure desperate optics.

komputodo says

If thanksgiving dinners are such a special treat, why don't restaurants offer them on their menus year round?

I miss Morison's Cafeteria.

They were pricey and every item was ala carte, but they had somebody's grandma that knew how to cook all of the Traditional food back there.

Shopped at "At Home" Saturday which is a huge (YUGE) warehouse for housewares. About 1/3 or 1/4 of the store was Christmas stuff. They had a small Thanksgiving section and were selling off Halloween stuff in another small section.

They had these giant inflatable Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Bumble Abominable Snowman. Two stories tall and the bases would fill up a standard driveway easily. Much bigger than the picture posted above. Never seen anything like that living near the West Coast.

Oh, and lots of Christmas music.

just_passing_through says

They had these giant inflatable Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Bumble Abominable Snowman.

The Home Depot has huge resin Santa and other lawn ornaments, that are reminiscent to the Plastic hollow figures from the 50's.
I remember in the 80's the old geezers were the first customers for the Mini Warehouse storage facilities just to store their huge plastic Christmas yard display.
While the nostalgia side of me, welcomed the sight of those old school figures and conjured up ghosts of Christmas past. I couldn't help but wonder where people store all of that crap, if they got the full Nativity Scene, the full sleigh and a huge Santa for their yard. It just all looked so out of place and so Anti 2022 in every way. Like it's all being sold to be tossed in the trash on December 27th. Even though they are made to last a lifetime.

https://notthebee.com/article/theyre-already-putting-out-christmas-decorations-and-its-only-august-august

They're already putting out Christmas decorations and it's only August. This madness must stop.

At Home Depot, products launched online included eight-foot Santas and giant nutcrackers. And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

This isn't just an isolated rumor, mind you. People are observing this all over the country.

I don't say this lightly, folks: It's time for boycotts. We don't even need an actual boycott. Just STOP BUYING CHRISTMAS STUFF IN AUGUST AND THEY'LL STOP PUTTING IT OUT, PEOPLE.

out here people actually look forward to christmas. can probably sell decorations year round.

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/theyre-already-putting-out-christmas-decorations-and-its-only-august-august

They're already putting out Christmas decorations and it's only August. This madness must stop.

At Home Depot, products launched online included eight-foot Santas and giant nutcrackers. And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

This isn't just an isolated rumor, mind you. People are observing this all over the country.

I don't say this lightly, folks: It's time for boycotts. We don't even need an actual boycott. Just STOP BUYING CHRISTMAS STUFF IN AUGUST AND THEY'LL STOP PUTTING IT OUT, PEOPLE.

People aren't buying stuff, that's why they are putting it out.

I asked an employee at my local grocery store why they were putting out Halloween junk in August, and she just said "well, if we don't, we have a bunch of unsold product after Halloween".

Well, maybe, but who is going to buy a bag of candy in August, store it for 2 months, then hand it out?

By the time Halloween comes around, everybody is going to be burned out by it.

Nobody gets burned out on a 6'4" Werewolf.

richwicks says

And Costco has already started rolling out its artificial Christmas trees on store floors.

Yes, they did this year. It reminded me that the summer is almost over!

Blue says

Yes, they did this year. It reminded me that the summer is almost over!

But it isn't? This is the height of summer!

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, it's all ages away.