It's beginning to look a lot like...oh, for pete's sake.

[cadhla]

So yesterday, my mother drove me to the grocery store, since my back is currently out and that severely limits my capacity for carrying large quantities of anything, including food. I was totally out of everything, including peas, soda, bread, pickles, and random chunks of dead bird to be thrown into the oven and roasted. Her intervention was

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[ladymondegreen]

I remember when 'Christmas in July' meant something other than tripping over tinsel in your flipflops.

[ladymondegreen]

Also, I kind-of wonder if all of that pre-holiday build up to Christmas contributes to the sort-of post-holidays blues that we see all over the place in January and February?

[banjoplayinnerd]

Apropos of nothing, are you familiar with Brave Combo's "Christmas In July?"

Oh, we'll have a Christmas, a summer Christmas
We'll have one fine fun-time unwinding in the sunshine Christmas
Oh, we'll spend Yuletide down by the poolside
This year let's have Christmas in July

[ladymondegreen]

I wasn't, but that's charming. I did just hear one the other day about a Hawaiian Christmas, but I can't remember the artist.

[thnidu]

Bin there, dun that, wrote the song:

Christmas at the Mall
© 1996 thnidu

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
all around the mall,
  so busy with wreath and bow
  everywhere you go,
you hardly can recognize the stores at all.
       (spoken:) Yeah, right!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas --
tinsel, red, and green --
  and the calendars all say
  that there's only one more day
left till Hallowe'en!

BTW, the last line was exactly true in the event that sparked this.

[textileowl]

Hear, hear!

[lots42]

Dude, they already got June and no, it's not 'Christmas In June' charity

[lots42]

June - July but at this point the stores should just leave it up all year long and quite kidding themselves.

[catalana]

Amen to this. The main store I shop at for groceries and stuff had their Christmas stuff up several weeks before Halloween. I was flabbergasted. I'm used to people not waiting until after Thanksgiving, but not even waiting until after Halloween? That was so weird.