Yes, the Holidays are coming, but I personally think that, within 50 years or so, we'll be getting ready for Christmas all year long. I mean, if they keep pushing it back any more, we'll soon be buying Christmas decorations on July fourth. Big Lots had a few things out in August, for cryin' out loud.
Stores here had whole aisles of Christmas stuff out a week or two before Halloween.
I think it's a shame. The day we celebrate as Jesus' birthday has been turned into a consumer's feeding frenzy, almost completely negating the message He came here to convey.
My dad, never the most PC person, always said that "Christmas is for kids and Jews." I, never the most PC person, either, agree whole-heartedly with that sentiment, if maybe not the wording.
In my humble opinion, we, the consumers, need to rebel against it and refuse to buy anything even remotely dealing with Christmas (unless we're starting early buying gifts, of course, which is always a wise move) until November, at the earliest.
Anybody else?
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