Blather & Whatnot

I did a lazy search on the topic and found complaints that date back five years regarding Christmas decorations going up in October. Guess what folks? It's not new!

The complaints are comparisons of twenty or thirty years ago and now-- not five.

When I worked in retail (1991-92), we, and everyone else in every other store in every strip mall I worked at, put up our xmas decorations the day before Thanksgiving, and the only reason we did so that day is because we were always too busy to do it on Black Friday. The thing we complained about back then was that the next years' calendars were already starting to ship in late July/early August...

If you see someone decorating for Christmas in June, I'll be willing to take complaints at that time.

In Elyria, and other hardcore redneck places I've lived, they avoid this by simply leaving the decorations up year-round.