It's official...Christmas is around the corner
 

Christmas cards and Christmas decorations are on sale in Costco.

Where and what Christmas goodies have you seen?

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July 24th aisles of decorations in At Home and Hobby Lobby is full of Christmas stuff including trees.

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Yeah baby, get that tree up, warm up the egg nog and start madly wassailing....

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I can't wait for winter. I hate this constant high 80's, low 90s heat!

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I love temps in the 80s...hate winter, snow and ice. :thumbdown:

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Yeah, another excuse! Happy Christmas everyone.

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Always been a lover of the cold! It's better for me as I can wrap up as warm as needs be, and I like the darker nights, etc! In the heat, I just constantly sweat!

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gah christmas, hate it.

Wife was on etsy the other night looking at chrismas cards. asked me if i liked them. i said yeah, looks nice.

Until i realized she ordered 20 at $3.98 a piece

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They had the Christmas trees etc all set up in Kohl's when I was in there last week. Good thing I like Christmas, I suppose :lol:

Snow can go stuff itself up it's own arse, but I love autumn and this week is completely ruined with every day forecasted to be in the 80s. Meh.

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Christmas? Worse than that, supermarkets here are already gearing up for Pancake Tuesday / Mardi Gras! :thumbdown:
Got all their flour, sugar and eggs well stocked. :sneaky:




:lol:

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Yup, started seeing a few Xmas items at Sainsbury's this week. It's not until the big Xmas biscuit and chocolate tins appear, that I get the real shock, usually late September.

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I've seen cards, wreaths and pudding out in the last couple of weeks.

There's a tree farm that has been taking bookings for Christmas photo's since the beginning of the month and most weekend slots between now and October have been booked as it's the best time for nice foliage pics.

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Where Bob?

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Christmas cake, stollen, rum and eggnog, I can take it. There are always some early stores but I think Nov 20 is early enough to put the eggnog on the shelves. Feel free to imagine a fat, boozed-up Jesus eating a big bowl of stuffing and gravy.

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Careful with the stollen, you'll get Nutek all excited again.

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Mmmmm Stollen...

/Homer

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Wegmans, Marshalls, World Market.

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Remember folks, our Dear Leader tells us we can all say Happy Christmas this year. The war on Christmas is over!

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Who? Oh, that dotard. ;)

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:lol::thumbup:

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I'm making my Christmas cakes this week while the boy is on afternoon shift and I'm home alone. First batch of gingerbread is being made today so I can try out my new cutters :) PM me where to send it and one fruit cake will be winging your way..... (sorry, but I don't think stollen would make it from AU to you very well)

As for Christmas crap, one of the big department stores in the city has had their window display since 1 September.

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Malls here been playing Christmas music before the end of August!!!! Stores full of decorations.

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Well, Cebu. Not exactly a Charles Dickens type Xmas experience, is it...

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Bet they do a hell of a Palm Sunday though.

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I saw a set of Christmas lights up last night at someone's house.

I thought they might have been Halloween, with orange and/or purple, but they weren't.

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Looking forward to decorating the new house for Christmas. My favorite time of year.

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Currently snowing, so seems appropriate.

I was getting in wood yesterday and there was a rather nice Christmas Tree that was in my way, should have chopped it.

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I love Christmas, but I wish I could avoid the hassle of having to deal with the pain in the arse of decorating. It'd be nice if I could click my fingers and it was all done.

This entire end of the year, from when the weather starts getting sensible and the nights get longer right through to January 1st is my favourite.

Snow is never appropriate.

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Do not expect it to stick, too warm, but make the hills around look pretty.

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Move to the south and keep the lights and decorations up all year long! :lol:

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Oh, are you talking about outside decorations? Those are easy, I just string some lights around the front door, the front entry steps and the garage door. Done.

It's putting up the tree that I hate doing.

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No bullet holes in the plywood reindeer? :lol:

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These are being displayed in local schools.

http://www.kgw.com/img/resize/conten...297_ver1.0.jpg

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One for the WTF thread? Not very Christmassy :p

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I think they have misinterpreted what is meant by 'dreaming of a white Christmas' :rofl:

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Or the bedding thread. Someone mentioned sheets.

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Oh shit, that's a good point :D

Yeah, that should go down well.

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I think around here Costco has the record for earliest Christmas products being out, the local store started putting it out end of July/first week of August.

They even had a electric heater on display and operating, nothing like walking down an aisle to get blasted with hot air on a 85F day...lol

Wal-Mart started once the school stuff was moved out of the seasonal department, and Home Depot has a few lights out but that is all for now.

No snow on the mountains yet.

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I wondered where that post had gone. I have only just read this Christmas thread.

I thought they had only just got rid of all the reduced Christmas stock from last year.

For the poor store workers it a pity Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas doesn't have reusable stock. I mean Turkeys can be used at Christmas and Thanksgiving, why can't stollen?