It's beginning to look a lot like...

[brooklynite]

Halloween candy being packed away and Christmas decorations being loaded in at the local drug store.

[Politicalboi]

1. I wonder why

They waited so long.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I'm old enough to remember when we bitched

because they started up the commercial Christmas crap the week after Thanksgiving.

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. I know ...

I was just commenting to Mrs. 1SBM about how the day BEFORE Halloween, there were Xmas commercials and there had not been the "Home for Thanksgiving Hallmark" commercials ... I always look forward to them!

[Arugula Latte]

3. Yeah, I went to a grocery store to snag some sale Halloween candy for my kids

(who are too old for trick or treating but not too old for candy) and there wasn't much there. That section had been taken over entirely by red and green. I mentioned it to the cashier and she was funny about it. "That's so stupid! Can't they just wait until Thanksgiving?!"

Then there's CostCo -- they put Xmas crap up in the summer.

[bravenak]

4. It started here the day before Halloween.

Seems like they're combining black Friday, thanksgiving, and Christmas into one season.

[Skidmore]

5. Which is why I don't shop for anything other than

food or essential replacement items when something breaks during this time of the year. I hate shopping anyway.

[bravenak]

8. I hate shopping too.

But I did find some cheap Halloween candy WAY WAY WAY in the back behind the Christmas stuff. I online shop in the winter to avoid the crowds. And Black Friday gives me a sense of overwhelming fear. Will not got inside of a store after thanksgiving except for food.

[Youdontwantthetruth]

6. The ThanksGiving Stuff was out at the grocery 10 days ago the X-Mas stuff last week

Sunday when I went to the grocery, all of the Halloween candy was shoved into one small area and marked 50% off and what was a large Halloween candy display is now 1/4 Thanksgiving Candy and the rest is X-Mas Candy, it is also in the same isle as the beer so it gets lots of traffic.

CVS was all X-Mas last week too.

and if anyone else has noticed too, they are doing X-Mas music on some Cable Channels already.

[YarnAddict]

7. Oh, crap.

Guess what song is now stuck in my head.

[Little Star]

11. Thanks for that earworm! lol

[Jackpine Radical]

13. The only socially positive application for waterboarding

is to kill earworms.

You can also approximate the effect by filling your bathtub with icewater & submerging your head for at least 60 seconds.

[YarnAddict]

14. I just may try that. On the other hand . . .

I can always change the channel:

"It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small, small world!"

[Jackpine Radical]

15. That was mean.

Just plain mean.

[YarnAddict]

16. That particular ear worm

is good for about a week!

[Jackpine Radical]

18. Glub glub glub glub glub

[Egnever]

9. At my local store they started taking down the halloween aisle

the day before Halloween and started the xmas stuff. I couldn't believe it.

[MANative]

10. The Lowe's Hardware in Danbury CT had Christmas things available...

in the first week of October. Artificial trees, gift wrap, lighting, decorations, etc. Didn't have the wood pellet fuel that people are going nuts trying to find, but more than enough Christmas crap to decorate the entire neighborhood. Bah Fucking Humbug.

[geomon666]

17. Some places around here were putting out Christmas stuff in September.

No joke.