A store near me started putting Halloween stuff on shelf space in July.
J U L Y
I just put in PTO for a bunch of long weekends so I can desperately cling to summer for as long as possible. I actually got a little chilly at the lake last weekend when the sun started going down. Winter is coming 😟
As long as the Claus regime and its fundamentalist base remains steadfast in its mission of Christmas creep expansionism, Halloween is all that’s left between us and Christmas lights going up in July.
For generations, Halloween has held the borders of Autumn established long ago in the Skellington Accords. Resolutely. Without complaint. It naturally can’t even creep father forward than Lughnasadh on August 6 due to the wobble of the Earth herself, and makes no designs to even take more than a week of August. IF you feel like it.
Meanwhile, the lands of Thanksgiving are bare, stripped to the roots to feed Claus and his elves. Christmas holds nearly every inch of Thanksgiving territory, save only a small administrative territory near the capital. They laughably claim autonomy still. Thanksgiving is little more than a province of Christmas now. A weak and middling fiefdom that serves no master other than Claus.
Fight the Claus. Fight Christmas. Saturnalia io!
Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain! Spooky season arise!
Edit: just this morning a friend passed along from a coworker in I think the Philippines, that “The Holidays”, meaning Christmas light, go up Sept 1. It’s real, people!
I extend my decorations til the week after thanksgiving. Gonna keep christmas lights into january, I’m gonna keep cadavers in my courtyard til turkeytime.
I think I’m invited to someone’s Christmas in July party at least once a year at this point. I had a Christmas in July party in '22. The Claus regime got me with their propaganda 😭
Sorry, but it’s too fucking hot most places to even think about spooky season right now.
Eh, we just had like four deaths in our extended social group in the last month. We put up our ofrenda early this year
I’m sorry to hear that; I hope you’re doing well.
better than i should be. i process fast and i just ran into mary poppins. not julie andrews, the broadway one, who is a dear friend of mine from high school, who i thought i would never see again, and now it looks like i’ll be part of the annual get together, so that’s neat.
thanks for your well-wishes.
Costco put out Christmas stuff near us. These companies are literally completely destroying the meaning of the holidays.
Costco is particularly infamous for this. They start putting out Halloween in July and Christmas in August. By September, Halloween is over and it’s all Christmas
I feel like the only companies who should have stuff out early like that are craft stores because people need time to craft things.
You have to go back pretty far to have the meaning of holidays not be about rampant consumerism.
Costco is always a season ahead.
Like, to sell it, or to decorate the store?
I think to sell, my wife texted me while she was in the store the other day.
Kinda annoying but also, just because it’s for sale doesn’t mean it has to be that season…
Sure, but it’s half a year away. The holiday was so much more fun when it was a special time of year when you started to see any of it. Christmas decorations weren’t sold until November when I was a kid. There’s zero reason to sell them in August except to ruin the holiday.
We visit Spirit Halloween at least once a week starting in August each year. My kids are obsessed.
My wife takes our kids frequently as well. I’m good for one trip a year, but in much more focused in my shopping than they are.
Oh, we don’t buy anything most of the time. Just window shopping.😃
Halloween is one day, not a season, and I will die on this hill, and then I’ll be a spooky skeleton but I won’t come out except on Halloween
Your terms are acceptable.
I’ll keep enjoying the bread themed half season. Then at Mabon I’ll switch to beer and pumpkin spice.
Like, I’m edgy and witchy enough all year that I guess I don’t really feel the need to let Halloween creep into summer. Also living somewhere where the trees are mostly coniferous does weaken the feeling of autumn a bit when I’m used to leaves changing.
Update: I am apparently not immune to holiday creep and now have a bunch of pumpkin beer and oktoberfest style beer
September only has one holiday and it sucks.
It has the equinox and oktoberfests though. But yeah fake labor day is really mid. Glad to have the day off for sure, but yeah
I’m not ready for this. We can’t put out Halloween decorations when it’s still summer weather.
