The Santa Clause

[kigs]

Ah, lovely November.

The time of the year where Pumpkin pies become a form of currency. The time of the year which has given birth to things such as, "November Rain" by Guns and Roses, that awesome red color that large leaves turn into when they fall off of trees, and an excuse to wear that ridiculous jacket that you never wanted but for some reason received last Christmas.

Yet, every year, there is something dirty in the air as November rears its head. Even while I'm still recovering from the recent Halloween festivities; before the jack-o-lanterns have caved in and the hangover has quite dissapeared, there are already FUCKING Xmas decorations in the stores. Turkey day hasn't even happened yet and Santa is already shoving his plump face into my range of vision at every possibile opportunity.

I love Christmas. Behind Halloween, it is my 2nd favorite holiday of the year. It's a day when family values, good food, good drink, and a good time seem to seep into everyone's soul and make them be uncharacteristically grateful for everything they have. I even try and go caroling, for what it's worth. So, why is it that only 24 hours after I take off my Dr.Jeckyl and Mr.Hyde outfit, I get a faceful of Santa's booze-reeking beard everytime I go shopping? What the hell does buying a $300 remote controlled mechanical light-up santa with electric "Ho-ho-ho" voice have to do with spending time with your family?

Now, this may all seem rather blown out of proportion. After all, as a business man, I understand that the only reason these things get put into stores is because people buy them. If no one wanted to buy a dancing Reindeer on November 1st, Target wouldn't stock dancing Reindeer on November 1st. So, here's my question: Who the hell is buying this crap? Do people decorate for Christmas this far in advance? Am I just ignorant of this?

Someone help me out here.
~Kigs

Comments

[xianjaguar.livejournal.com]

Out here the Halloween stuff and the Christmas stuff were all in the same aisle. You could get a Santa outfit for Halloween! ;P

One of our local writers joked that he ran out of candy on Halloween night, and ran to the store to get more, but they had already gotten rid of all the halloween stuff, and all they had was Christmas stuff....so the Trick-or-Treaters all got Candy Canes.

I dunno who is buying all this crap. I'm not. Maybe the stores are just trying to PUSH the goods on people knowing a few weak minds are going to cave in here or there and they can make an extra buck off 'em.

I personally don't think the Christmas stuff should come out until the day AFTER Thanksgiving.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

I seriously considered putting up Xmas lights and Santa crap for Halloween and then answering the door dressed like an elf. That way, I wouldn't have to redecorate when Xmas came around :)

[xianjaguar.livejournal.com]

OMG...next year...YOU...MUST...DO...THIS! And take PICTURES!
I COMMAND THEE!!!

*gets the mental image and dies laughing*

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Cosmic laziness at work

[yuroki.livejournal.com]

I think people buy in advance so THE SECOND they finish eating their thanksgiving feast they can run outside and decorate without wasting any time at the store buy decorations. You see, it's a competition to see who can decorate the fastest and have to most decorations after right after thanksgiving.
That's how I see it anyways :\

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Xmas wars?

[yuroki.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. At least where I live it is. :\

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Baton down the hatches and secure the Xmas light ray, Jimmy. This year, the Rockwell house is going to get a retina full of Xmas cheer before they know what hit them!
~Kigs

[yuroki.livejournal.com]

Ha! The only decorating I do is wrap colorful lights around my roof and go back inside.
I'm not very festive =____=
This year things could be different though.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

That's what I tell myself every day.

[cass-rising.livejournal.com]

Businesses seem to decorate early, but houses? Most people I think would agree with you that decorations go out too early, but that doesn't stop them from going on a shopping frenzy later in the month. The build up irritates them, but like a coldsore you can't stop from biting, that irriation keeps the season fresh in their mind. By the time december comes, they're chomping and gasping with shopping compulsion. Marketers don't care if they bug us, just so long as we spend money sometime.

So the answer is yes, people buy that crap, but generally speaking the xmas-hype before thanksgiving is merely a build-up. Sales aren't that great around this time of year, but by planting notions of a shopping season-to-come in consumer's heads, marketers hope they will be good in a few weeks.

Getting in the spirit yet?

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

I've already whipped out my plaid scarves and green and white stripped elf socks.

[kutztowndragon.livejournal.com]

is anyone buying the roboraptor?

also I found video of you riding the escalator at AC

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I am unfamilar with the roboraptor. Care to englighten me?

Dude! Send it!
~Kigs

[kilojara.livejournal.com]

http://www.roboraptoronline.com/

I secretly want it...Looks way cooler than a Furby.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Fluid walking movement my ass!

...It's still adorable, though. ^^

[demonvaska.livejournal.com]

I think there should be a law making it illegal for businesses to sell decorations and other items for a holiday until two weeks before. I hate seeing Christmas stuff this early, as it saturates and weakens the spirit. Also, every year they begin earlier, making it likely that by 2050 it'll be all year round sales on Christmas trees.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

What better way to say, "Happy Easter" than with the gift of a christmas tree?
~Kigs

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Happy Hallothankmas!

It's rich people. The upper middle class. They're the ones who like to get an early jump on Christmas shopping and decorating. They're the ones who put inflatable Santas and reindeer in their yards.

At least that's my hypothesis.

I like to go to the mall sometimes and just walk around, and then sit and draw, but December is the month I stay away from the mall. It becomes a madhouse, I tell ya, a madhouse!

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

I must now study the ratio of upper-middle class surburbian inflatable Santa Clauses to the population's inflatable Santa ratio. More as this develops.

[synchra.livejournal.com]

I WANT PUMPKIN PIE NOW.

yeah i seriously have no idea who buys the crap that's out even before halloween for christmas... probably those crazy mothers with like 4 kids that think they are being "efficient" or something... so yeah my answer.. CRAZY PEOPLE.

[battie.livejournal.com]

i agree, on both counts

mmm pumpkeeeeeen pie x)

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

The moment I get some disposable income, I should go purchase a Ginormous Pumkpin Pie.

[mokie-low.livejournal.com]

You know Minnesota Street, the one with all the "show" houses? I haven't been to Brentwood in awhile but, I can almost guarantee that come the day after Thanksgiving, you will see all that crap on their front lawns… And they probably bought it all this week or next. I think they’re pod people.

And I sooooo want the Robotraptor! I saw one at the Discovery Store, I just –know- it has one of those shiny new HandyBoards in it, it has IR sensors! It’s a little cheaper than buying all its components separately… I want to strip him for parts. *g*

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

There are few things which would terrify me more than heading out to your house only to find a stripped down roboraptor skeleton hanging in your window sill. It's the stuff that nightmares are made of!

As for Minnesota street, I beleive I may just have to drive out there. I'll should be in Brentwood for a healthy portion of Thanksgiving break.
~Kigs

[tixen.livejournal.com]

That pisses me off too. I made a descision years ago that I would not do any business over the christmas season with any store that advertised christmas sales before Thanksgiving, and apparently a lot of people did the same. ...now, very few stores in Minnesota have christmas sales until after Thanksgiving. <3

But yeah. It just sickens me to no end that our country's businesses are so heartless that they stomp all over things like the fact that years and years ago some Indians gave food to the tards that were killing them 'cause they'd starve over winter if they didn't, and without that food, the USA wouldn't exist as it does today.

Fucking fucktards.

Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas probably more then the average person... but Christmas has it's 12 days. We should at least let Thanksgiving have it's 1.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Today, we take a stand so that Turkey day shall get the respect it deserves!

[tixen.livejournal.com]

Damn right!

My father told me once that Benjamin Franklin thought the Turkey should have been the national bird instead of the Eagle, and he said that he rather liked that idea.

I'm inclined to agree with him. :D

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Eagles are ravenous scavengers... not that there is anything wrong with that kind of bird.

*shifty eyes*

[tixen.livejournal.com]

o_O *scamperscamperrun!*

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom FLESH om nom nom!

[tixen.livejournal.com]

Ohnoes! No omnomnoming upon the flesh of the living and snuggly! ;_;

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about snuggly? Anyhow, it won't be living for long. *grin*

[tixen.livejournal.com]

Oh! Okay, so long as it's not the flesh of the snuggly. ^_^

[battie.livejournal.com]

well.

all those glowy lightses make my heart soar ;]

- even if the overcommercialized insanity does not

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Remind me to spin Red and Green glowsticks around Xmas. I'll forget, so I'm trusting you.
~Kigs

[battie.livejournal.com]

trust miss brain-with-holes and her horrid, horrid memory??

oh you silly goose ;)

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

It's about glowies. If any part of your brain is left, it's the past commited to shit about glowies.

..!

[battie.livejournal.com]

valid point, sir x)

[misabaconpants.livejournal.com]

You are forgetting the Bored Housewife Factor.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

THERE we go! That's an answer.

I entirely forgot about the bored housewife variable. *Strokes chin fuzz*

Now the question is, are all these out of place holiday monstrocities solely the fault of the housewives?

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

You really started a good topic here. I enjoyed reading everyone's replies. The day before Halloween, the local drugstore was totally ready to cue Christmas! It was pretty sad.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[blogified.livejournal.com]

It's not too TOO early, I guess. I know someone who already went to a Christmas party. What's a christmas party without decorations, yah? Also, the lights downtown have already been strung on the trees, but as for me, we usually decorate around Nov 27th. ^_^ My neighbour's have been up since Halloween... *cough* I would call that early... Or maybe they were lazy and just wanted to kill two holidays with one set of decor.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

The hell is a Christmas party doing in early November? Did it migrate South for the winter?

[joshwasta.livejournal.com]

November Rain = best music video ever

-Wasta