It\u2019s not just me, right? This year, the harbingers of Christmas have popped up earlier than usual.<\/p>\n
Before Halloween candy was on sale, I was hearing Christmas music being piped through mall speakers. Before pumpkins disappeared from the front of grocery stores, aisles were being lined with wreaths and ornaments.<\/p>\n
I have nothing against you, Christmas, but isn\u2019t it a bit premature? Isn\u2019t it a bit mean to take all that thunder away from not only Thanksgiving, who\u2019s gotten used to being an opening act for you, but also Halloween? Where\u2019s your Christmas spirit?<\/p>\n
My gut tells me that this has something to do with the recession, that retailers are hoping to somehow get people to think that a end-of-year holiday shop-a-thon should actually start three quarters of the way through the year. I just hope it doesn\u2019t backfire, where people get so tired of being reminded about Christmas for three months that they don\u2019t buy anything in late December.<\/p>\n
That would mean our retail market would fall apart and <\/em>I wouldn\u2019t get any presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not just me, right? This year, the harbingers of Christmas have popped up earlier than usual. Before Halloween candy was on sale, I was hearing Christmas music being piped through mall speakers. Before pumpkins disappeared from the front of grocery stores, aisles were being lined with wreaths and ornaments. I have nothing against you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[276,38,170],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-christmas","tag-money","tag-shopping","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}