I saw a sign at the local grocery store that said “Happy Hallow-Thank-Mas Season!” I was physically ill.
As I’ve begun celebrating the solar and mid solar holidays the creeping of Christmas has gotten so much more irritating. Let the solstice celebration happen at the solstice. I don’t want to deal with winter solstice themed stuff while I’m celebrating Mabon and Samhain. It screws with the sense of connection to time and seasons.
Agreed, and that’s not even accounting for how insanely corporatized those holidays are. I guess that you’re supposed to have fun and enjoy the celebration but after a certain point it feels like these solstice holidays have become ads.
Become? Santa as we know him was litterally a Coca Cola ad.
Become, because I imagine they didn’t start that way.
Christmas is extremely profitable, so corporations want to extend it as much as possible. In the UK, shops sell christmas stuff in august now. It’s ridiculous. Also, everything has to have festive packaging, even products that have nothing to do with christmas.
Ho Ho Ho motha fuckas
In Canada, we’d need a FOURTH lane for labor day in September. In September we see Halloween stuff in stores.
One the bright side, most DGAF about Thanksgiving so no merch in stores in September… so far.
I’m trying to create balance by going the other way. I started my Halloween decorating in September and it’s staying up through Christmas. And I’m having a Halloween Christmas from now until I die since my ex-wife doesn’t have a say in it anymore. I actually found some Halloween tree ornaments at Michael’s yesterday and gobbled up a few packs. Next year I’ll try to snag a Halloween tree too depending on how the new cat treats the Christmas tree this year.
sorry i can’t hear you over mariah Carey rn
Thanks to the whole Nightmare Before Christmas thing, we Samhainers will go ahead and shanghai the entire season if the devil hasn’t been paid His full due.
