Already???

[eee1313]

Y'all know that I'm nuts for Halloween. I love it. October is my favorite month of the year because of it. That, and pumpkin spice lattes. But I digress...

I think television might ruin my love of Halloween. I say this because last night I saw my first Halloween-themed commercial. It was AUGUST 27 yesterday. That's TWO MONTHS before Halloween. Top that off with Bravo showing Addams Family Values and The Exorcist back to back, and I fear that Halloween is coming much earlier than even I would want.

Please, television/stores/etc., please don't ruin Halloween with overcommercialization the way you did with Christmas. If you ruin this one, what will you have left? Flag Day?

Comments

[tiaralynn.livejournal.com]

I stopped listening after pumpkin spice lattes.... Mmmmmmmmmmm.....

But seriously... I got my Halloween-themed Oriental Trading catalog about 3 weeks ago. It's getting ridiculous.

Plus, it's longer for people to buy the things (like the spiderweb placemats and spider napkin rings) and will leave fewer items on clearance post-Halloween.

[xica-s.livejournal.com]

Pshh. I was in Party City on August 17th buying crap for the HSM party and the store was already completely set up set up for Halloween. I was like "whaa?".

[missrachael.livejournal.com]

Geez, I thought all the harvest stuff in the grocery store was bad. It's like a cruel joke, when the only brown leaves right now are due to the horrible, blistering heat.

I am part of the problem

[yakgirl.livejournal.com]

I must admit; I've already bought the boys' Halloween costumes. I actually bought the big guy's costume in July when we were in Ohio. Yes, July. Babies R Us had them on display in JULY. And I, like a sucker, bought the only 48 month-size knight costume (like any mother of a Little Einstein's Good Knight and Bad Knight episode fanatic would have to). Then I found a dragon costume for the baby to go with the knight back here in RI (again at Babies R Us, and also probably in July). I'm a sucker. Now all the kid stores have costumes-- Children's Place, Gymboree, etc. But I think they waited to put them on display until August 29. Nice of them to wait, huh?

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

Dude, don't you know that EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN?

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

One, I saw that Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back now at the Starbucks by my work. It's too hot to have one yet, at least for me.

Two, I had a dream that I had already decorated the apartment for Christmas.

What was the Halloween-themed commercial?