Okay - I just got a Radio Shack invite to get a gift for $20 in my email. Like I'm going to be looking for the "bargain gift" this many weeks out. If it's a bargain I'll be picking it up off the shelves the night before because I'm too cheap to spend money on a spendy gift this early out.
By the way, there are only a few types of gifts. One is the expensive gift, the other is the thoughtful gift, and the last is the white-elephant gift. By and large, the expensive gift never qualifies as a thoughtful gift, nor would it qualify as a white-elephant gift - these three types are mutually exclusive.
This whole "can't say christmas" thing in the stores drives me nuts every year. You can't say it but you can sell it. Then there's a whole political controversey with boycotts of stores that won't say it - including lists - that float around the US telling you which ones do it and which ones don't.
Either way - seriously? Put your Christmas stuff away until after thanksgiving. Lets roll things back to 1985, can we? Or we could just have Christmas year-round to drive up sales even further! Or abolish all other holidays to drive down the cost of diversity (All Hail Diversity!).
Oh for what it's worth, next year? I'm going as Santa Claus for Halloween.
