Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it still August?

[thewayne]

I went to Walgreens today to pick up some meds, and they are putting up their halloween stuff.

*sigh*

Comments

[conuly]

That's nothing. Our local supermarket has a big bin of cinnamon-scented pine cones out. And people are buying them.

[thewayne]

I sometimes have hyperosmia: I'd most likely have to give such a bin a wide berth. Seems to me clever marketing as I don't see how they'd keep their scent through the holiday season, so anyone daft enough to buy them this early will have to buy them again in November/December.

[conuly]

It's right at the store's entrance. I hate that store sometimes.

[thewayne]

My hyperosmia got a lot worse after I had some sinus surgery.  I remember we were going to the food coop and someone had just finished cleaning the windows with a ammonia-based cleaner.  I walked up to the doors, turned around, and went back to the car and let my wife do the shopping. Yeah, I'd have some words with the manager if I had to walk past something like that.

[moxie_man]

They're late to the party. Local stores had back-to-school crap out in June prior to school closing for the summer. I'm sure if I walked into a store today, I'd find Christmas crap creeping in on the Halloween candy.

[thewayne]

I wonder when it's going to wrap around and they start putting out Halloween stuff in December.

I, personally, class Halloween as my favorite holiday, or at least I did when I lived in Phoenix. Some friends in Tempe threw fantastic parties, but now living 500 miles from there, I don't get to attend them very often. Christmas is fine, but to be honest, my wife isn't very good at buying presents.

[moxie_man]

Christmas: We might buy a gift for each other. We don't do presents much anymore. Why? Don't need nothing, don't want nothing, and in the Squirrels' Nest don't have room for nothing. (chuckle)

Younger brother goes all out for both Halloween and Christmas. I believe Halloween is his favorite, but Christmas might be a close second.

Me, mah. Though I'm in the middle of Augusta, the state capital, I'm at the top of hill at the end of a dead end street. In the 11 Halloweens we've seen so far at the Squirrels' Nest, we've seen maybe 7 or 8 trick-o-treaters in total and 3 of them were in a single year, making that our record year. I guess the kids don't think its worth the hike for our light.

[thewayne]

For us, for Halloween: picture it.  End of October.  9,000' up on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest.  There are kids in the neighborhood, but not many: my next door neighbor is the school superintendent.  What they do is the village puts on a little festival with a costume contest and the shops giving out candy and stuff like that.  It's a lot safer for the kids and the parents don't have to worry about their kids freezing in the event of early snow, or having to bundle cold weather gear under costumes. The only time we turn our porch light on is if we're going out and coming back during a new moon or stormy weather, or if we're expecting visitors, which is pretty much never. In the 12 or 13 years that I've been up here, we've never had kids come to the door.

[silveradept]

It would be nice if they waited until something relatively close to the appropriate time, wouldn't it.

[moonhare]

Halloween candy is on the shelves here by late July. Xmas decorations will be hitting the shelves damn soon as well.

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