WTF Happened to Thanksgiving?

[N2NH]

While in Midtown today, I dropped into Macy*s as I headed to an appointment. I walked into the main floor and was confronted with enough Christmas decorations to cover Pennsylvania. On November 9th. Weeks before Thanksgiving. I stopped and my mouth must've hit the floor. I looked around and I noticed I wasn't alone. A woman from Seattle had the same expression on her face. I said, "Looks like we skipped Thanksgiving this year." She agreed amiably.

Look I know the economy is in shambles, but this is ludicrous. I've been seeing Christmas decorations since last Friday and Christmas carols for about as long. I know they're rushing the season because money is tight. But doesn't it reek of desperation not to mention rampant commercialism to start Christmas a few days after Halloween? I mean, if there's a sign that prices are going to be tumbling, this is it. The earlier they start, the more desperate they appear.

Let's give thanks before we fleece the populace of the paltry pittance that's left to them after the Bush economic disaster. It's the Christ-mass thing to do.

[kc7jty]

Whatever works.
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[NQ6U]

It's those damned Canadians. They hijacked our good American Thanksgiving and moved it to October. You missed it entirely.

[WØTKX]

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[KA5PIU]

Hello.

http://www.christmasyearround.net/
Failing that and you feel that the Christ inChristmas is a bit mas there is,
http://xmasfun.com/
But as far as "Showing love with money" florists are always complaining about people who say they loves someone so much but spend under $50 or so.
How the hell much is a flower supposed to cost?
And what is this crap about an arrangement? here is 1 (one) flower, arrange, mofo!

[W2NAP]

they cant make any real money off of thanksgiving, as you dont spend for decorations and gifts so its hard to commercialize the holiday like they have everything else.

IMO fuck Christmas and every other holiday.

btw, seen the 1st xmas tress out here last week of sept.

[kc7jty]

IMO fuck Christmas and every other holiday.

and with these words you have become a man after my own heart.

[W3MIV]

The Home Depot I use here has been filled to overflowing with Christmas bullshit for more than three weeks now. They put up an acre or two of phony trees surrounded by a visual Times Square of obnoxiously flashing, blinking, glaring, winking, stinking lights in mid-October.

Waddaya wanna bet that as soon as the last of this phony shitz is sold off at imaginary discounts in January, rabbits and eggs and tooth-rotting confections from China heralding the Risen Dollar clog the aisles?

Hawking shitz around the year from everywhere around the world but here has become the American way.

[W1GUH]

And...and....we get to hear Christmas Songs on the radio all day long. Must've started by now. And if you've got satellite, there's 2 or 3 channels of nothing but holiday tunes.

[KG4CGC]

We have a "MY" station here that goes 100% Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. I will keep you posted if they start earlier this year.
UTs will be standing by.

[al2n]

It is competition, plain and simple.

Thanksgiving is all about the food. So you will see food stuffs on sale and such. Christmas is big on decor and gifts, so you will see the decorations geared toward that over Thanksgiving.

If store A puts Christmas decor out by this date, then other stores have to follow suit or they will loose money when all the early birds go to store A rather than to their place.

Target up here is opening at 4am on black friday this year. Not because they want to, but because Walmart has decided to open at 4am. People will spend 70% of their money at the first store they go to on Black Friday. If you are not open when the other stores are, your business suffers.

I just finished the last of the Halloween clearance and am busy tagging all the stuff that is in the toy catalog this year. We have thanksgiving, but it is more about the food than decoration.

[al2n]

The Home Depot I use here has been filled to overflowing with Christmas bullshit for more than three weeks now. They put up an acre or two of phony trees surrounded by a visual Times Square of obnoxiously flashing, blinking, glaring, winking, stinking lights in mid-October.

Waddaya wanna bet that as soon as the last of this phony shitz is sold off at imaginary discounts in January, rabbits and eggs and tooth-rotting confections from China heralding the Risen Dollar clog the aisles?

Hawking shitz around the year from everywhere around the world but here has become the American way.

Valentines day then Easter.

[W3WN]

The Home Depot I use here has been filled to overflowing with Christmas bullshit for more than three weeks now. They put up an acre or two of phony trees surrounded by a visual Times Square of obnoxiously flashing, blinking, glaring, winking, stinking lights in mid-October.

Waddaya wanna bet that as soon as the last of this phony shitz is sold off at imaginary discounts in January, rabbits and eggs and tooth-rotting confections from China heralding the Risen Dollar clog the aisles?

Hawking shitz around the year from everywhere around the world but here has become the American way.
Don't blame the induhvidual stores, that's a mandate from Home De$pot Corporate in Atlanta.

They start setting up for spring merchandise in mid-January. After the Christmas clearance sales.

[KG4CGC]

Thanksgiving? That is just the warm up, the soft whisper in your ear, for the eventual post Christmas ass rape you will get in your mailbox.

[N2NH]

Thanksgiving? That is just the warm up, the soft whisper in your ear, for the eventual post Christmas ass rape you will get in your mailbox.

There was a time I got so much junk mail in my mailbox that my mail 'carrier' threatened to stop delivering my mail. At which point I called the postmaster. I didn't ask for it why in Heck was I going to be penalized for it?

Jeez, I hope there isn't too much "holiday cheer" this year. The 'war on Christmas' usually takes place in the toy aisles and it's the one place that Faux Noose doesn't bother looking when they do stories on it. Enough with the saccharine overload.

[n2ize]

While in Midtown today, I dropped into Macy*s as I headed to an appointment. I walked into the main floor and was confronted with enough Christmas decorations to cover Pennsylvania. On November 9th. Weeks before Thanksgiving. I stopped and my mouth must've hit the floor. I looked around and I noticed I wasn't alone. A woman from Seattle had the same expression on her face. I said, "Looks like we skipped Thanksgiving this year." She agreed amiably.

Look I know the economy is in shambles, but this is ludicrous. I've been seeing Christmas decorations since last Friday and Christmas carols for about as long. I know they're rushing the season because money is tight. But doesn't it reek of desperation not to mention rampant commercialism to start Christmas a few days after Halloween? I mean, if there's a sign that prices are going to be tumbling, this is it. The earlier they start, the more desperate they appear.

Let's give thanks before we fleece the populace of the paltry pittance that's left to them after the Bush economic disaster. It's the Christ-mass thing to do.

Do you know the name of that lion in your avatar. Both of those lions actually have names.

[kb2vxa]

Think of it, had the Indians given the Pilgrims a donkey instead of a turkey we'd all have a piece of ass for Thanksgiving.