Christmas out of season 2019

I quite like Hallowe'en. I don't go full tilt for it now, I save that for Christmas. But we do put up a few Halloween decorations and go to the pumpkin patch etc. I find it just breaks up the autumn/winter before the Christmas season starts. Plus once I take the Halloween stuff down, I know it's only a month until I can put up the Christmas stuff

Halloween wasnt much of a thing for me until the kids came along. They love it & insist we put up the decorations & do the trick 'r' treat bit etc. and I must admit I enjoy it also as we usually end up making an effort to socialise too. We head away every year for the bank holiday weekend too (just down the country for a night or 2) and its become a bit of a tradition that when we come back from that we're into the real countdown to Christmas & start to ramp up the organisation. As we're hosting again this year we'd normally start into that straight after halloween, but with all the work still going on in the house looking like stretching into mid November we'll have to put some thought into how we do things this year.

TRS30 wrote: »

M(they only got to eat about 10% of the stuff they got).

LOL, ours were the same, some of what they brought back was recycled & given back out to late callers to our own house as all our earlier 'stores' had been depleted, and some of it was re appropriated by mum & dad

Our two were not impressed with their final haul in comparison to what they had brought back!!

Yesterday in Smyths.

I always loved halloween. In Dublin it was for fireworks and bonfire building. We also had for as long as I can remember trick or treating.

Then as I got older we used to frequent a pub in Wexford where there was a costume competition. Loved it all. used to love it more than Christmas, there I said it.

DvB wrote: »

Methinks 'out of season' will be coming to an end soon!

Methinks so, too !

Lidl in Virginia have their Christmas goodies in store - panettone, biscuits, sweets, chocolates and a loads of lebkuchen including a tin that's also a wind up music box.

Yep - Lidl in Shannon had all that stuff last week too

I think it was all down to listener demand to be honest. He always plays the first Christmas song at this time of year and people seem into it.

"Mansfield's (in Nottinghamshire) festive lights are already hanging above one of the town centre's shopping streets.
Every year the council begins hanging its lights up at the end of September to ensure they are ready for when the festive season is underway.
Apart from some tests, the lights will not be turned on until mid-November "

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/christmas-lights-already-gone-up-3363464

Penneys is smashing it this year with Christmas jumpers in the shops already. And L’Occitane has advent calendars.

Channel 369 on sky, Christmas Starz, the first music channel up and running on October 1st.

Loughc wrote: »

This is the last out of season month!!

Only 30 days to the tv adverts!!

TRS30 wrote: »

To get you in the mood

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/christmas/christmas-adverts-best-john-lewis-sainsburys-marks-and-spencer-coca-cola-a8622341.html

'Holidays are coming, holidays are coming..........' (don't like the term 'Holidays' however love the song/ad)

Some good ones in there, but, you cant have a christmas top ten adverts list without the guinness one, otherwise its null and void!!!

On a more serious note, dont agree with the order of that list, but some are genuine classics.

Having a coffee with that xmas music channel on in the background before heading to a site meeting, couldn't resist!!

Shaking Stevens on at the mo.... gas!

Posy wrote: »

Already done last Christmas. :cool:

Ditto.