Finally! One thing we can all agree on is that last-minute Christmas shopping is a real drag. The crowds, the noise, the confusion, the cold sleet or snow because you're in the middle of goddamn winter — in short, it sucks.
So, while we'd all appreciate just a few more days in the shopping season to help us out, the hands of the retailers are tied since there's an unwritten rule that they can't swamp the land with Christmas stuff until the official 'Thanksgiving timeline' is over.
However, with the help of the Department of Interior collaborating with the National American Turkey Council, they came up with a very clever solution:
Oh, For Gobble’s Sake, Thanksgiving Decorations Are Out Already
If you’re the kind of person who likes to start getting their Thanksgiving table ready several months in advance, you’re in luck.
They moved up their Thanksgiving timeline by two months, thereby allowing the Christmas retailers to do the same!
125 Shopping Days Left: Retailers Start Xmas Deals
Even before the school bells are ringing for many families, retailers are sounding sleigh bells.
Yes, that's right. With 120-plus shopping days left, stores are already talking up their holiday offers.
As I said six years ago in Another Successful Disappointing Holiday Season:
For someone who grew up in an era when it was strictly verboten for businesses to put up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, it's been somewhat sad to see the commercial greed seep forth a little earlier every year since. I believe these days the decorations are going up just after the 4th of July. I hear Easter's the next goal.
In the writing biz, this is known as when fantasy meets reality.
They just beat out Labor Day.
And that's just after the 4th of July.
I hear Easter's the next goal.
