Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians
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I celebrate all year. But i'm encouraging people to start with Halloween September 1. Makes the holiday last longer and doesn't bump into any other holidays i'm ware of.
Also single-handedly trying to form a subculture offshoot of Goth, but for Halloween.
Often think how fortunate Americans are in having Thanksgiving, an event I would dearly love to experience first hand because I love the sentiment behind it, for holding the festivities back.
I’m not a fan of Halloween, but I adore the early part of autumn with all its beautiful warm colours.
That’s one thing I love in Germany. You might see one of another stuff being sold in October, but the real show only starts four sundays before Christmas. Zero complains in here.
I'm sorry, what? 😅 A running gag in Germany is that "Lebkuchen" are sold earlier every year (usually it's always end of August/beginning of September).
Actually that’s the only reason why I said some stuff can be already found 😂
But other than Lebkuchen and decoration materials to bring home, you don’t see stores on Christmas mode really until at least mid November 😅
Not sure this is still holding - now it seems Halloween is just getting shoved into August so Xmas stuff can still start popping up in early autumn moreso every year
I had thought that here in Canada 🇨🇦 we had Remembrance Day (November 11) to hold the line, but maybe I made that rule up. I see Christmas stuff in October now. Or was it ever thus?
Halloween is not a Danish tradition, but the stores are trying to make it a thing here. Ten years ago I went to a supermarket in early October and saw an island of orange and black in a sea of red and green.
A couple of years ago I didn’t buy Halloween candy until the morning of Halloween, only to find the stores had shifted the displays. Found some, but I was beginning to think I was going to have to hand out Reese’s peanut butter Christmas trees.
I continue to extol the virtues of a good preparatory (if not penitential) Advent. Jumping straight to Christmas from Halloween is "all orgasm and no foreplay".
Well, until the Christmas carol service, that is.
We don't celebrate that here in the UK so Hallowe'en remains our last bastion against Christmas music (and garish guff in general) creeping into the shops (and all public spaces) from September/October. There's bonfire night too but that's never been commercial enough to mount a serious defence
Thanksgiving here is a perfunctory excuse for pre-Cmas sales, and there's maybe three good songs, and nobody has even tried to write any others. It's store-speaker-neutral on that.
Are you familiar how in Brazil the appearance of "Panettone" on store shelves is interpreted as the signaling of the coming of Christmas? As Halloween is not as popular here, we usually see these as soon as September
I still remember when Thanksgiving held the line against encroaching Christmas, and it was seen as gauche and taboo to hang Christmas decorations before Santa Claus waved from NYC at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...
That line fell decades ago, and now it's up to Halloween to hold.
.....it used to be.
Capitalism and its greed started putting up chistmas stuff at the end of September.
It's like corporations think they can use mental conditioning to push sales.
When the symbols of a holiday are seen for so long, they become meaningless.
Eventually, holidays will lose all emotion and meaning.
They will be around you all year long.
They will no longer be special. Just something bought and sold, like everything else tor capitalism.
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Also single-handedly trying to form a subculture offshoot of Goth, but for Halloween.
I'm serious. Just don't ask HOW serious.
Next stop, Labor Day.
I’m not a fan of Halloween, but I adore the early part of autumn with all its beautiful warm colours.
But other than Lebkuchen and decoration materials to bring home, you don’t see stores on Christmas mode really until at least mid November 😅
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With the Christmas festivities playing the role of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Goths being, well, the Goths
Well, until the Christmas carol service, that is.
A month of random fireworks, with greatest intensity in the first two weeks of November precedes the gaudy light displays of Christmas.
Wake me up in the Spring. O bugger! When's Easter?
In my city we have it all time!
That line fell decades ago, and now it's up to Halloween to hold.
Capitalism and its greed started putting up chistmas stuff at the end of September.
It's like corporations think they can use mental conditioning to push sales.
When the symbols of a holiday are seen for so long, they become meaningless.
They will be around you all year long.
They will no longer be special. Just something bought and sold, like everything else tor capitalism.
The Christmas season starts in September there. 😬
Not spent much time in many goth clubs I take it? ;-)