“Christmas Creep,” Christmas Creepy 3
Only 132 shopping days to go:
You know. August.
What, you find it hard to muster yuletide spirit when you’re wearing a bathing suit?
Well, too bad.
At T.J. Maxx in Norristown, two-foot-tall Santa figurines are already watching over a clutch of silver stocking-hangers, wooden-soldier nutcrackers and glittery tabletop trees. A few doors down, at the Dollar Tree, Frosty snow globes wait near the cash registers, not far from a selection of red-and-green ornaments.
At the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in Plymouth Meeting, a full-size Christmas tree is up and shining. Below its boughs, a toy Santa blows a saxophone, though it’s hard to hear his version of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” while a nearby mechanical snowman is crooning “Jingle Bells.”
(snip)
Researchers call it “Christmas creep.” That’s shorthand for the ever-backward march of the holiday retail season.
Hmm, better start sending out those Mother’s Day cards. It’s only nine months away.
August 14, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Jayde’s in her final week here, and just a few minutes ago I showed her my entire coffee cup collection. When I was showing her my Christmas ones, at first I thought it was a little out-of-place in August, but then I remembered that where she comes from, this is Christmas weather.
August 15, 2006 at 9:54 am
I know people that have all their shopping done by August. Seems strange, but come November & December, they sit & laugh at me.
August 15, 2006 at 7:52 pm
My ex used to do her Christmas shopping throughout the year.
Personally, I enjoy the mall on Christmas Eve . . .
The secret is not to be in a hurry and to enjoy the floor show.