The Swamp

“…he whizzed with his load…”

Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

Macy’s with a full-on Christmas commercial. Hi Santa.

rass wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:21 pm Macy’s with a full-on Christmas commercial. Hi Santa.

My wife screamed.

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:08 pm Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

I went into Home Depot yesterday, and the Halloween stuff was all gone and replaced with Christmas trees and huge inflatables.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:45 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:08 pm Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

I went into Home Depot yesterday, and the Halloween stuff was all gone and replaced with Christmas trees and huge inflatables.

I don’t understand people who buy and put up Christmas trees so early. It will be dried out and dropping needles before Christmas.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:55 am

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:45 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:08 pm Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

I went into Home Depot yesterday, and the Halloween stuff was all gone and replaced with Christmas trees and huge inflatables.

I don’t understand people who buy and put up Christmas trees so early. It will be dried out and dropping needles before Christmas.

Your Home Depot is fancier than mine

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:55 am

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:45 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:08 pm Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

I went into Home Depot yesterday, and the Halloween stuff was all gone and replaced with Christmas trees and huge inflatables.

I don’t understand people who buy and put up Christmas trees so early. It will be dried out and dropping needles before Christmas.

Who the fuck is putting up live trees so soon? When we did a live tree it was tops 3 weeks.

I like to decorate in November, but yeah, the tree isn't bought until around T'giving.

SC just learned about fake trees.

SC still thinks of the fake trees as the metal ones that they sold back in his hey-day. Or the tinsel ones.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:07 pm I like to decorate in November, but yeah, the tree isn't bought until around T'giving.

Annual fight here of whether the weekend after Thanksgiving is too early (which it is).

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:19 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:07 pm I like to decorate in November, but yeah, the tree isn't bought until around T'giving.

Annual fight here of whether the weekend after Thanksgiving is too early (which it is).

We always put our tree up and started house decorations day after Thanksgiving.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:23 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:19 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:07 pm I like to decorate in November, but yeah, the tree isn't bought until around T'giving.

Annual fight here of whether the weekend after Thanksgiving is too early (which it is).

We always put our tree up and started house decorations day after Thanksgiving.

Same. Except last year we knew we'd be out of town that weekend, so we put them up the weekend before. It was awesome.

We may do it in a week when our oldest comes in. won't be here for thanksgiving weekend.

I mean, pretty lights during the shortest days of the year, I see no reason to delay that.

ETA - posted that same time as AB - wasn't in response to his post, more of a general musing...

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:37 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:23 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:19 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:07 pm I like to decorate in November, but yeah, the tree isn't bought until around T'giving.

Annual fight here of whether the weekend after Thanksgiving is too early (which it is).

We always put our tree up and started house decorations day after Thanksgiving.

Same. Except last year we knew we'd be out of town that weekend, so we put them up the weekend before. It was awesome.

To be clear, they aren’t selling live trees here yet, either. But I used to have a neighbor who put up his tree Thanksgiving weekend, and as I said, dried out and dropping needles before Christmas.

As a kid we always had a real tree and put it up around December 1. I remember putting an aspirin in the tree stand with the water but I have no idea what that was supposed to do.

Reduced the chances of that tree having a heart attack!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:55 am

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:45 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:08 pm Home Depot all in on holiday commercials.

I went into Home Depot yesterday, and the Halloween stuff was all gone and replaced with Christmas trees and huge inflatables.

I don’t understand people who buy and put up Christmas trees ...

FIFY

We bought a fake tree in 2020. Daughter was getting really down during the lockdown/home school era and she was asking. We put it up, along with other lights and crap, a couple days before Thanksgiving as we always host Thanksgiving and it does make the house look festive.

That Travolta/Santa/Saturday Night Fever commercial made me a little sad.

when we moved to Buf and got our house ~5 years ago my aunt gave me their old artificial tree, but last year it sorta (did) fell apart. It was all easy and good last January to say fuck it, drag the carcass out to the garage, and say "yeah next year we'll get a real tree, that's fine" but now it's November and the day of reckoning approaches. I haven't bought a tree in...? 15 years at least. I am absolutely going to float the idea of a Charlie Brown tree this weekend.

Watching the Rockafeller tree lighting and Barry Manilow looks like Odo from DS9 in a bad wig.

Katherine McPhee looks pretty great, though.

rass wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:01 pm Inflatable Santa shot in Lexington

I bet the 30 foot grinch I saw this weekend is next.

A_B wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:09 pm

rass wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:01 pm Inflatable Santa shot in Lexington

I bet the 30 foot grinch I saw this weekend is next.

This statement is exactly the statement that would be uttered by someone who thought they were always one step ahead of the cops.

cerranoredux wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:02 am

A_B wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:09 pm

rass wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:01 pm Inflatable Santa shot in Lexington

I bet the 30 foot grinch I saw this weekend is next.

This statement is exactly the statement that would be uttered by someone who thought they were always one step ahead of the cops.

They'll never catch me!

God, the actual story by the reporter. Blech.