On Jan 1, 2007, at 19:16, Helen Bell wrote:
I find it depressing in late July to walk into a craft store that's already getting it's Christmas stock in. Lets at least celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving first.
Hey, craft *catalogues* have Christmas projects *all year round*, without a respite; in comparison, craft stores are exercising remarkable self-control, given that Christmas-related stuff is the biggest moneymaker :) I agree with Betty Ann; you need some lead-time to make the things if you want to give them as gifts. OTOH... Most of them are in the form of kits -- no thinking and/or hunting for materials required... How long can it take to glue or string all that stuff together?
I have my own "beef" with "premie Christmas" and it's the Christmas trees disappearing, by Dec 15 or wearlier. Our supplier sets up on the Friday after Thanksgiving and is gone (sold out? given up?) sometime between Dec 10 and 15. But, in Poland, we don't set up our "home" tree until Dec 24th (Christmas Eve). And we don't take it down till Jan 6th (Epiphany). Even a dyed-in-the-wool atheist like myself knows that.
For all the fuss that's being made in US about the godless liberals declaring a war on Christmas it's the theofascists, driven by profits, who have taken both the meaning and the magic out of the holiday. I used to love Christmas but don't anymore.
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