We visited a local garden centre yesterday and were overwhelmed with an enormous display of things Christmassy; much of it exceedingly tacky and all of it, very expensive.
Glistening ice clad polar bears, tree lights that looked like real flames, Father Christmas in every size, shape, and form (some rather scary looking - perhaps trying to catch the Hallowe'en market at the same time).
Feathery angel wings .... where on earth do they come in the scheme of things?
How can there be fun and excitement to the build up of Christmas if it starts in the middle of October? Surely a parent's nightmare, with this time scale children will no doubt have changed their ideas multiple times before Christmas Day does finally arrive.
Or am I just being a grumpy old Scrooge?
Utterly hideous. However, according to colleagues with young children, this early advertising is actually a bit of a godsend as it enables the parent to use that immortal line 'Santa's elfs can SEE you kicking your sister/refusing to eat your greens/throwing a tantrum in Tesco (delete as appropriate) and they will REPORT BACK TO HIM' for months on end. Apparently the success rate of this devious disciplining is remarkably high... I can't recall that obvious lie ever working on us though....
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I hadn't thought of THAT aspect!
DeleteLOL at Cath because I'm sure she has a valid point. It's the same in America, of course, if not worse. Astrid hates it when those customs come over to this side of the Pond. (sigh) It used to be that you didn't see anything Christmas until AFTER Halloween. But not anymore!
ReplyDeleteThere just seems to be a race on to see who can start Christmas the earliest. All this commercialisation (with Hallowe'en too) is so depressing.
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