Photo-a-Day 19th September - Wednesday

[byslantedlight]

Oh Australia - it's the 19th of September! The 19th! Of September! I enjoy a good run up to Christmas as much as anyone, but what are you thinking?!

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

noooooooooooooooo!!!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I know! I was going to use a Christmas icon as a tease, but I couldn't even bring myself to do that in September!

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Um.. yes. Really early^^

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I thought it was bad in the UK, but we're not even in the right quarter of the year yet!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

At least we have Halloween and Thanksgiving which tends to blunt the Christmas mania, at least for a little while. I'm sure my next month they'll have switched over.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

That's what I usually think - and we have Guy Fawkes in November to keep Christmas at bay a bit longer, but this isn't even the right quarter of the year! I've gotten to not mind it in November even - keeping the winter at bay as it gets colder and wetter isn't a bad thing - but September?!!!

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

I never understood the run-up-to-Christmas mania in the UK that tends to start in early or mid-October (compared to Italy, where it tends to start much later, say roughly mid-November).. . It's like, do I really need nearly three months to buy the few Christmas presents I need to buy!?! What are retailers thinking!?! And... if I have to buy some stuff for me I can do it pretty much any time of the year, when I need it, and not when retailers dictate me...!
Perhaps this whole "preparing for Christmas" thing starts so early in the UK (and, from the look of it, down under as well... but at least you've got summer weather there 🤗) because Christmas is perceived to be such a special time of the year where maybe long 'lost' members of family come together, who maybe don't get a chance to meet more often because they live far away or other reasons... So preparing for it becomes a big deal. In Italy, and maybe other southern European countries too, you tend to see your immediate or more distant family more often and more regularly during the year, so Christmas in that respect is not perceived to be that special. It often feels like an enhanced "Sunday", with extendend family gathered around a table eating more elaborate food than normally eaten on other days, but not such a special or rare occurrence... That's my take anyway...
😁

[cyanne]

I hate this every year. I figure it's enough that Christmas takes over the entire month of December but I was already seeing things for sale in mid-September in the US. All of the holidays seem to move earlier and earlier every year, anything to make a buck.