Posted on 08/16/2019 4:48:36 PM PDT by rintintin
To many, late July might seem like peak pool-float season, a time for spiked seltzer and SPF, and the halfway point of summer (which it is). For others, though, this point in the calendar means one thing: Its finally time to start Halloween shopping.
Tomorrow is August...so...its basically Halloween, Target tweeted on the last day of the month, garnering more than 10,000 likes and 4,000 retweets. There were a few too soon replies, and many Taylor Swift stans chiding the retailer for skipping over her album release date, but mostly, people were very much on board with the sentiment.
Earlier in the month, Target started pre-orders for its Hyde and Eek! Boutique, including a range of adaptive costumes for kids with disabilities. While the product wont hit stores until late August or mid-September, depending on the location, there are other parts of the mall where the jack-o-lanterns and cobwebs are already out in full force.
At Home, the home decor superstore, was perhaps first to kick off the season, stocking shelves with spooky merch as early as May 31. The crafts chains Michaels and Joann started in mid-July, leaving customers ample time to buy supplies for DIY projects.
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Funny because just today I noticed earthenware jackolanterns for sale at Krogers.
It is the next money-making holiday.
It is the same at The Dollar Tree.
Tomorrow is August...so...its basically Halloween, Target tweeted on the last day of the month . . . “
Well, whadaya expect from the store that allows men using the women’s bathrooms??
I was in my local Lowes today, and if you happened to look up to the rafters, you would see the top shelves are already loaded up with Christmas trees and holiday stuff.
Take a pill. It’s a fun day for kids and this isn’t the 1600s :)
Christmas to start the 25th of June and Hanukkah sometime in October give or take a few weeks that vary a lot.
The “candy season”. Halloween to Easter.
Saaaayyyyy, didn't the democrat party kick God and Israel off their party platform THREE TIMES?
and then a rooster crowed.
Our society is retarded.
Yep, on CNN
For the same reason Christmas starts in September.
Well said and that is the word... Consumerism. It is ruining this country.
If no one bought it this early they wouldn’t put it out.
HALLMARK CHANNEL airs Christmas movies on all year long. I should say holiday movies, since 98% of them glorify Santa with the exception of a few carols.
Halloween used to be strictly a kid's holiday. I wish it were still that way.
Well, yes. But secularism is at the root of the problem. Consumerism is a symptom of the disease.
Rather than worshiping God the people are worshiping things. Materialism. Consumerism is the worship of things they wish to possess, even if it is only for a season and then the thing is discarded.
The people buy things today that will be trash tomorrow.
The introspection of a prayerful life is gone nearly completely from our society. The mainline churches allow it to happen. I cant remember the last time I heard about sin in a sermon.
You can freeze melting chocolate but not chocolate that has been made in to confections already.
Either these 1972 people are going to eat this chocolate soon or they have wasted their money and there are going to be some disappoint people come Christmas.
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