Seasonal Rant

[demariana]

This will hopefully be my only rant on this subject until next year when it happens again. I know I ranted about this at least once last year. It just annoys me every year. I am hoping once I get a nice good rant out of my system I can breathe and just let it go for another year.

What the fuck is up with having all of the holiday crap out already? The halloween candy is not already eaten and there is Christmas music almost non stop on one of the local radio stations. I go into stores and am bombarded with aisle after aisle of decorations, wrapping supplies, candy, and even more music coming from all the electronic doodads they bring out at this time to be cute. Also what is up with Santa already coming to the malls? Damnit Santa is not suppose to show his face in the malls till the day after Thanksgiving. This is after he has had his grand entrance in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and other parades around the country. I am a northern girl at heart and I can not picture or embrace the holiday spirit when it is still 70 fucking degrees out. I want REAL snow and COLD weather. I want friends, laughter and good cheer. Not this commercial shove the season in my face crap that is getting earlier and earlier each year. Why do they just not leave it in the store year round? Oh wait Dollar Tree almost does that now. Black friday should be the start of the holiday season. The longer it gets drawn out the less I am in the mood to take part in the holidays. Just another day.

There should be wonder and innocence. There should be friendship and peace. There should be joy and happiness. Bring back my holiday cheer and goodwill. Maybe if we did embrace the season with love and hope the world would become a better place.

Comments

[crim-ferret.livejournal.com]

I work retail and get it even worse. We start hearing about holiday plans in August. A fair amount of the decorative items have to be 0up for sale before Halloween. The day after Halloween better see most of the rest up. We'll have 99% of all the holiday seasonal merchandise we'll get by Nov. 15. Thanksgiving might as well not exist for most of the store. Christmas will be considered pretty well over by December 17. That last week is geared toward shoveling out as much of what we have left as possible and figuring what we have to mark down do get it out of the store so we can look as close as possible like Chistmas never happened on Dec 26. After all, we have to get ready for Valentines Day. The one saving grace in all this is that I work in the electronics dept now instead of foods. That pretty well means that Christmas is the only holiday I have to stress over with back to school being a distant 2nd.

[razzle.livejournal.com]

I embrace your rant and agree on all counts. I actually saw Xmas junk in the stores this year *before* they put the Halloween goodies out.