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Christmas out of season 2019

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    I was working right up to Christmas last year. Finally got relaxed on the 25/26th and Christmas was over. I said happy Christmas to someone in the shop and i was corrected oh you mean happy new year , no I meant Happy Christmas, it’s Christmas until Jan 6th !!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


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    And so they should be :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
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    And so they should be :pac:

    I think Halloween is the only thing stopping some stores from going full Christmas much earlier!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I have minus interest in Halloween, but I like that it allows Christmas stuff to trickle slowly into the shops. It’s much more exciting to see the Christmas departments grow slowly than it would be if they just appeared overnight.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,474 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    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.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    My wife is much more into Halloween then me, she loves putting up decorations, getting dressed up etc. I do like seeing the kids enjoying it and there were old enough last year to go trick or treating so that was fun (they only got to eat about 10% of the stuff they got).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,474 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    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 :D

    Our two were not impressed with their final haul in comparison to what they had brought back!!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    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 :D

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

    If we'd let them eat even 50% of it, they wouldn't have slept till Christmas with all the sugar!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Yesterday in Smyths.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Yesterday in Smyths.

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    Got the middle one for my Dad last year as an early birthday present and he loved it. The kids wanted to open them all when we were over so think I’ll get one for us this year as well. Also cuts down on the chocolate starting too early (for them mind, never too early for us adult!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,474 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Saw selection boxes for sale in Dunnes over the weekend, and christmas wrapping paper in next also. Methinks 'out of season' will be coming to an end soon!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    DvB wrote: »
    Methinks 'out of season' will be coming to an end soon!
    Methinks so, too !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    What's the end date for out of season?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Jude13 wrote: »
    What's the end date for out of season?

    2nd Jan :D


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Jude13 wrote: »
    What's the end date for out of season?

    I'm guessing officially it's November 1st. I like to think of the season is when it's socially acceptable outside of here to talk about Christmas :D :pac:


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I need this.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I hope it's gingerbread with a bite!

    My favorite bakery for gingerbread men/tree's closed a weekends ago!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭xeresod


    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.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Someone ahead of me was buying a Panettone in my local Lidl yesterday :D I think all of the Lidls have some Christmas stock now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭chuckles30


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Scott Mills just played his first Christmas song of the year! Mariah!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Scott Mills just played his first Christmas song of the year! Mariah!

    Love it. I bet that angered twitter haha.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    Love it. I bet that angered twitter haha.

    Queue more irrational moaning. I was forced to listen to it, forced to I tell you......... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    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.

    Good to the hear we are not alone :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    "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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    This is the time of year wires and cabling start to appear. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


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


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