Just noticed

Doesn't bother me too much as I just ignore it. We stop going to the shops once we get fed up with it until it's all gone. We're making Christmas cake and puddings next week before we go away for a few weeks then won't think about it until December.

The only thing that bothers me is the effect it has on smaller children. Last year I watched a Mum drag her screaming children through the shopping centre because they wanted to visit Santa but apparently they had already been twice and 'she wasn't made of money'. And it was still three weeks before CHristmas.

I love it and can still manage to rise above the commercial aspect. I even have a couple of important gifts already purchased as I'm also an opportunist. Bring it on.......

The local GC staff were busy putting out lots of Xmas tat (sorry, decorations) today. Most of it I wouldn’t give house room to, in fact all of what I could see I wouldn’t give house room to 😲😅

Well, I am going to be cheerful about it. DD, in her 50s who absolutely loves Chrstmas considers that th Christmas season starts on 1 Septemeber and DGD is in broad agreement.

They will both be watching the Christmas film channel.

No Christmas trees at my abode ... yet!

I have one lone ornament still out since Christmas. Missed when packing up. And my childhood friends mother taught me at a. Very young age if you leave an ornament out after 12th Night then it must stay.

And I've already eaten a mince pie

The local garden centre was setting up Christmas stuff yesterday, gets earlier. I noticed M & S too had lots of Christmas goodies🙈 I don’t like Christmas anymore….

It won't be long, I think. Groan...

I wonder if anyone has their Christmas tree up yet?

All that swells is my tum, with mince pies, I'm afraid.

Ah, but the Grinch saw the error of his ways, MissAdventure and his heart swelled with love and he became a changed Grinch!

I seriously think it should be illegal to display Christmas stuff this early.
I'm that much of a grinch.

I hate Christmas, not afraid to admit that - but it really does grind my gears to see xmas stuff in the shops at this time of year. Can't they at least wait until we get Halloween out of the way first? Yes, I appreciate some people like to do their xmas shopping gradually throughout the year, but you can still do that without all the actual stuff appearing in the shops this early.

Don't want to think about it till December.

Went into Morrisons yesterday, they were doing the Christmas Aisle.

Fed up with it already

We just have to hope something does, which is fairly likely, I'd imagine.

Oreo

IRGOMT hey! A new acronym for GN users😄

Oooh yes! Let's use this acronym inspired by MissAdventure.

Rekarie

I'm always happy to see Christmas anywhere and everywhere. Love it. Can't get enough.

Well, tinsel looks tawdry in the thin light of Jan/Feb, don't you think?

An occasion becomes worth looking forward to when it isn't over exposed in my book.
Each to his own, you don't have to wait long Rekari.
Or have you left up the decs from last year?😄

NoneGrannyMoll a freezer with a lock on?

We could do with one of those here.
But on second thoughts, we have just had to pay out £140 for a new car key, yes you've guessed it, he we lost it.🙄😊

I'm always happy to see Christmas anywhere and everywhere. Love it. Can't get enough.

Yes me too Oreo although I am partial to a pie (of any kind - meet me and it would be obvious 🤣🤣).

Better get the sprouts on.

Oreo

Christmas foods were in the supermarkets in August including mince pies.I always think, let’s get Halloween out of the way first.

I think exactly the same. The supermarket already has bakery mince pies with a sell-by date for the end of September - what is the point in that?

Also cards and gifts already out - surely beginning of November is early enough?

I do little bits of Christmas shopping all through the year - left it to the last minute one year and never got over the stress and expense! From Sep to Dec I fill up a little student's freezer with our festive extras (oops, that's a little freezer for a student's use, not a freezer belonging to a little student...). It's lockable, which is very useful for keeping prying fingers out...

Christmas foods were in the supermarkets in August including mince pies.I always think, let’s get Halloween out of the way first.

IRGOMT hey! A new acronym for GN users😄