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• earlier every year (Score:1)

  by jmm (276) <johnNO@SPAMperlwolf.com> on 2001.11.26 9:37 (#1975) Journal

  I find it amusing to hear the complaint that stores are starting the Christmas ads earlier every year, with a time in November being quoted as an example.
  
  I can remember 30 years ago hearing the same complaint about carols being played on the muzak in October. But I was amused then because, 10 years earlier, my mother had been complaining about Chrismas decorations in a store in September.
  
  Christmas festivities have been starting "earlier" for at least 50 years. But, they still start with sporadic items in September and gradually increase to totally overwhelming every aspect of the environment by late November.
  
  It is just that each year a different group of people notice the pre-overwhelming stages earlier than they had other years and intuit the "new immoral capitalistic creep".

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  • Re:earlier every year (Score:1)

    by chaoticset (2105)

    That phenomenon is not limited to Christmas decorations; everybody, no matter when they were born, seems to have a tendency to talk about how "they don't make 'em like they used to" or "kids nowadays".

    "...I keep hearing about how you've changed. I think, 'Weather changes...and we just keep making the same dumb mistakes.'"

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  • Re:earlier every year (Score:1)

    by pudge (1)

    Yeah, I didn't touch on that part of the topic (which was indeed the actual topic), but this is the *latest* I can recall "Christmas season" beginning.
    • Re:earlier every year (Score:1)

      by pdcawley (485)

      September 11th probably had a big, chastening effect. Bit hard to concentrate on consumerism when you're mourning lost friends and watching a (?:pointless)? war on the telly.