Last week was Halloween, and this week it was Bonfire Night, two days that several years ago would have acted as a reminder that Christmas was coming up soon.
Although the 'countdown to christmas' period has been getting earlier and earlier each year, this year it was about the middle of October when I first saw advent calendars going on sale and shops swapping over their seasonal isles to Christmas related stock
It seemed this year as though most shops just wanted to gloss over Halloween and Bonfire night and go straight to the main event that is Christmas. In my local Morrison's, as I said about mid to late October, the seasonal isle was half Halloween stock and half Christmas, in October!
Honestly, I love Christmas, it's and amazing time of the year, but October is way too early to start thinking about Christmas. This isn't just because Christmas is still quite far off, but as I mentioned we still technically have two holidays to go in between October and December, and they are now just getting swept aside.
Initially I just put this down to shops just being shops and trying to get in early, get people buying, and stuff like that, but other annual signs of Christmas have also started earlier such as the Christmas adverts. Everyone always looks forward to these adverts, and loads if people use these as a definitive way to officially recognise that Christmas is coming.
How many people do you know freak out when they first see the John Lewis advert or Coke Cola advert? Because they know these are signs of the things to come!
Due to this advance in Christmas things, I have for some reason now been forced to write up several Xmas lists of presents I would like and been taken out on several shopping trips to go and buy presents. I'm never this organised!
The only real problem I have with things approaching this early is because although its nice to get into the Christmas spirit, things do have to go on as usual, school and work still go on, and we now have to wait longer before we can throw those aside and enjoy Christmas.
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