Christmas is coming

[lxskllr]

I haven't put a tree up in years aside from a desk tree at work, but I wouldn't consider anything but a real tree. I like eastern red cedar. Doesn't have the "traditional" pyramidal shape, but the foliage is generally dense, and it fits in a small space.

 

[Geekbabe]

I have cats, holiday decorations are minimal lol 😂

 

[Spacehead]

I'm completely surrounded by acres of trees... i see no need to bring one in the house.

But yeah, lets get at least close to Halloween before thinking about Xmas. No love for turkey day?

 

[Torn Mind]

buy shit now because shipping and availability is getting worse and worse every day.

In-store pickup at Walmart will takes hour out of your life even if you just bought non-Christmas things like motor oil.

 

[sdifox]

I have cats, holiday decorations are minimal lol 😂

Hang the cats on the tree duh.

 

[Jon-T]

A local radio station switched over to 24 hour Christmas music on Saturday.

Christmas is almost here.

 

[highland145]

Hallmark did some crap like that last July.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Figured it was time for a Christmas avatar. Just stole this one off the internet.

 

[Torn Mind]

You know it's Christmas when the most recent Christmas song to become universal classic starts being blasted everywhere.

Hail Mariah Carey, one of the analogues to Beethoven.

 

[shortylickens]

You know it's Christmas when the most recent Christmas song to become universal classic starts being blasted everywhere.

Hail Mariah Carey, one of the analogues to Beethoven.

I'm an old man.
I remember the era before Mariah Carey.
It was the same fuckin problem. Theres a hundred christmas songs but everybody from Macys to your gramma only plays the same five or six.


Over and over and over and over and GOD DAMMIT GRAMMA!

 

[MrSquished]

The whole point of extending the Christmas season to infinity is to extend the shopping season. The less you mitigate capitalism with other values together at the same time, the more it will turn everything into being about consumption and nothing else.

 

[jmagg]

I once did a "Turducken" with handbags for my daughter. It was a large Big Budda bag stuffed with a Coach bag, stuffed with a smaller Coach bag, stuffed with a Coach wallet. Fun times.

 

[Spacehead]

The whole point of extending the Christmas season to infinity is to extend the shopping season. The less you mitigate capitalism with other values together at the same time, the more it will turn everything into being about consumption and nothing else.

"Consumers must consume!!!" ...as a friend of mine likes to say.

 

[TheVrolok]

$500 for a fake tree would be borderline-absurd IMO no matter how shiny the plastic is rotfl. $2k = you are a mark unless the thing was hand-crafted from organic silk in Katmandu by fasting, celibate monks!



(Sorry)

Fake tree's are way less work though so I understand the rationalization.

It's allll about time for me. Good quality artificials last basically forever. As I said the one I have now that's like a decade old shows essentially no signs of wear.

I don't particularly enjoy going out to find a tree, cutting it down, bringing it home (strapping it to the roof of a car), watering it, etc. and all of that consumes large amounts of time and energy. Figure I save a few hours a year, say 2, that's 40 bucks/hour over the last decade for an $800 tree and only getting cheaper. Yep. I'm down.

My time (in my incredibly biased opinion lol) only continues to rise in value and unfortunately I can't make more of it. Also quite fortunately, I make a lot of money and don't really spend a lot of it

 

[Pohemi]

I guess I need to start screwing people over so can I get a visit from the three spooks. I think it would be pretty cool to show the Ghost of Christmas Past all the new techno-crap.

Or maybe you'll get the technoghost of Christmas past!

 

[Captante]

It's allll about time for me. Good quality artificials last basically forever. As I said the one I have now that's like a decade old shows essentially no signs of wear.

I don't particularly enjoy going out to find a tree, cutting it down, bringing it home (strapping it to the roof of a car), watering it, etc. and all of that consumes large amounts of time and energy. Figure I save a few hours a year, say 2, that's 40 bucks/hour over the last decade for an $800 tree and only getting cheaper. Yep. I'm down.

My time (in my incredibly biased opinion lol) only continues to rise in value and unfortunately I can't make more of it. Also quite fortunately, I make a lot of money and don't really spend a lot of it

I have a 10 inch USB LED "tree" I paid about $15 for from Newegg last year with the decorations permanently attached! Setup takes about 20 seconds including taking it out of the box!

I win!

Don't talk to me about saving time!


EDIT: To be fair I also have a humongous box of Christmas stuff including yards and yards of lights, tinsel, expensive "fragilay" glass decorations and a fancy/massive cast iron stand for up to a 12-foot real tree. Have not used it in years.

 

[snoopy7548]

Christmas is almost here! I walked into Lowe's on Sunday and they had their full Christmas section out on display. It was pretty cool seeing it next to the Halloween stuff.

 

[SKORPI0]

Christmas is almost here! I walked into Lowe's on Sunday and they had their full Christmas section out on display. It was pretty cool seeing it next to the Halloween stuff.

Halloween has been displayed since mid August, Christmas Sept 15th.

 

[Pohemi]

This could take a while...you might want to get a snack. (vid is less than 3 min)

...expensive "fragilay" glass decorations...

That Italian fruh-jee-lay glass is pretty fancy!

 

[MrSquished]

Halloween has been displayed since mid August, Christmas Sept 15th.

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This shit is getting ridiculous. Well I mean it always was but it's not getting better it's getting worse

 

[Shmee]

I love holidays!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Went to Canadian Tire yesterday, and the Christmas stuff is out, with the Halloween stuff just behind. It makes for rather funny scenery lol. Canadian Tire always has to best Christmas displays though, I love going there at this time of year. Kinda reminds me of my childhood going with my mom. It was in a totally different building though, they had a seasonal section that was kind of closed off from the others and I remember just looking at all the lights and just loving that whole section. It has windows too so you could see it all from outside. It felt so magical.