• Obinice@lemmy.world
    95·
    8 hours ago

    What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?

    It’s one single night, it’s not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

    What’s next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?

  • bigkahuna1986
    32·
    17 hours ago

    My local store already has Christmas decorations out. I freaking hate it so much

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      9·
      16 hours ago

      October 5 ours went up at work. July 24 was when Halloween showed up. I’m convinced dropping sales has pressured them to chase the holiday high of old, and their layoffs and cut hours simply don’t save enough to recover normally.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        7·
        16 hours ago

        In fact, their sales are probably dropping because they’re firing all of the people doing the selling and other work that facilitates selling.

        Corporations reacting to a subpar quarter with mass layoffs is like a marathon runner reacting to a bad third mile by intentionally spraining their ankle.

      • Albbi@lemmy.ca
        3·
        14 hours ago

        My 4 year old kid says Halloween is better than Christmas. So I think you’re missing out.

          • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Traditionally kids do the rounds for candy on December 31th or on epiphany (three kings bringing gifts) around here. It depends on the region if one of those traditions is maintained.

            • RandomVideos@programming.dev
              1·
              4 hours ago

              In my area, kids receive money instead of candy when going to people and singing on Saint Nicolas, between Saint Nicolas and Christmas, before Christmas, on Christmas, after Christmas and on New Year day

              I also know that different parts of my country do the same

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    61·
    14 hours ago

    Here’s the issue I have. The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter. Christmas is 3 days later, yet people expect it to be in the middle of winter, so people keep trying to move the season up. Realistically they should be trying to celebrate it in late January rather than pushing it back into Autumn. But they had to go and steal Yule and then keep wanting more time.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
      51·
      13 hours ago

      The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.

      Only true in some places. It’s not a universal fact. Lots of places don’t even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You’re making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location’s individual climate.

      • ramble81@lemm.ee
        41·
        10 hours ago

        wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (it’s actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you can’t be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. That’s still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.

        This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but don’t go getting butt hurt if you can’t read context clues from the comic just because it doesn’t line up with you.

        • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
          11·
          10 hours ago

          It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You’ve taken on drag’s correction and understood drag’s point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.

          Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don’t have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    17 hours ago

    I was shopping for parts for a Halloween costume at the beginning of the month. Christmas music was playing in the store.