So… that would mean “embracing Christmas but the wrong reason”?
By the way, retail stores do have to start thinking about Christmas this early: Stuart’s not talking about setting up Santa-and-reindeer displays.
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Or “embracing Christmas but the wrong season”.
I quit working my second job in retail ’cause I couldn’t stand the Christmas/Holiday stuff out so early . . .
Keep in mind that even Santa’s elves are already working on Christmas.
I think that when people refer to Scrooge, they’re usually talking about how he was pre-ghosts. At that point, Scrooge didn’t want to hear about Christmas, even at Christmas time.
Santa’s elves are unpaid slave labor. They work when Santa says “work”.
Santa’s whole operation is suspect. The people who get the toys don’t pay for them. So… how does Santa earn enough profits to stay in business year-over-year? Is he being paid from the marketing budgets of large corporations? (“While you’re in there, Santa, find out if the parents own any Levi’s jeans, Nike shoes, or Dell computers.”) Or is it a foreign intelligence operation? (“Hah! We destabilize American economy by providing millions of counterfeit Nintendo products this year. And we give them fake iPods that buy thousands and thousands of copies of Justin Bieber songs, making foolish Americans think he’s popular!”) Or maybe he’s just casing the joints, for later burglaries and home-invasion robberies.
Remember, Marla, Christmas is what pays your salary. Otherwise you’d be toiling away in one of Santa’s sweatshops.
Santa’s on retainer by Cambridge Analytica.
For me it’s not that businesses have to plan. It’s that advertising and displays assail the public so early. Bad enough that the Halloween stuff will be rolling out in a few weeks; Yuletide merchandise begins appearing even before Oct. 31.
PS — Everybody off my lawn!
Not SO fast, Minor Annoyance: Halloween stuff won’t be out until they’re done with back-to-school.
Though around here that’s just after Labor Day. I wonder whether Halloween stuff goes out mid-August in states where schools start up very early.
In Pinellas County, FL (Gulf Coast), school starts 10 August, so fall and Halloween decorations will be for sale soon.
I tell a lie – Big Lots just sent me an email that Halloween decorations are on preview now (online advertisement), and will be on the shelves in a week or so. All summer items are 50% off (frankly, it’s always summer here, so I don’t understand why summer stuff isn’t available all year, but that’s the way it is. I call it ‘enforced seasonality’).
” it’s always summer here, so I don’t understand why summer stuff isn’t available all year”
It’s hardly ever what you’d call summer HERE, though. I think that today is the first time this year that temperatures have reached 90 on consecutive days.
Andréa, if it’s always summer where you are, what do they sell after they stop selling summer clothing?
Long-sleeved t-shirts; long pants; swimming suits are always available; autumn and Halloween decorations. Floridians don’t know what COLD is (I’m from Wisconsin), so if it’s in the 50s or even the 60s, they’re out in hats and gloves.
The post-ghost Scrooge wished to remember Christmas all year long:
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
Pre-ghost Scrooge did not wish to remember (observe) Christmas even during the yuletide. As Arthur notes, “Scrooge” as a literary allusion generally refers to pre-ghost Scrooge.
So I guess an anti-Scrooge is someone who remembers and observes Christmas as embodied by the Spirits. A perverse anti-Scrooge is someone who remembers Christmas when it isn’t Christmas.
I think “Bizarro Scrooge” would have been more fertile ground. Good visuals. Plus “It am 100 degrees! It am Christmas! Santa coming up chimney!
July is late. Toy Fair is in February so buyers can figure out what is going to be hot for Christmas.
As for the strip, is perverse anti some kind of double negative? I’m confused also.
Don’t forget to put on your Silver Shamrock Pumpkin Mask!
I wear something called a “Bug Band” to help prevent getting flying bug bites when I go out in biting bugs season. They come in a variety of colors and “glow in the dark”. I prefer the black ones as they are less obvious. I have not been able to find any in black this year and need to buy some more of them. I waited so long trying to find them in black, they are no longer being sold in Walmart or Target this year. Luckily I was looking for spares and have. (When we are at a reenactment event I close the band – similar to the “cause” bands – and put a ribbon through it and hang it inside my petticoat (skirt) by putting the ribbon around my pockets waistband so it is not seen, but it still works.)
Maybe if brick and mortar stores sold items in season – when people are looking for them – they would make more sales.