Happy Christmas 2023…

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wibble cb

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3,759 posts

214 months

Saturday 29th July 2023
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Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already



They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !


bristolbaron

5,091 posts

219 months

Saturday 29th July 2023
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Nearly time for PH Secret Santa! xmas

105.4

4,214 posts

78 months

Saturday 29th July 2023
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wibble cb said:
Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already



They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
Christmas tat in July banghead

Rufus Stone

8,291 posts

63 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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There's a Christmas tree advert running on Mail Online.

grumpy

Captain Raymond Holt

12,278 posts

201 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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bristolbaron said:
Nearly time for PH Secret Santa! xmas
PH Secret Santa you say…..


xmas

munroman

1,883 posts

191 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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My first job as a 14 year old was a a shop assistant on the local Co-op, in their Garden and Toy shop.

Christmas stock would start arriving in June, so by the time Christmas Eve came I was thoroughly sick of the whole thing.

(I do wonder how much some of the toys would be worth now!)

Oh, and anorak fact, I know the woman who was the model for the Tiny Tears doll, her Father was a toy designer at Palitoy.

sanguinary

1,401 posts

218 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Yep. I owned a garden centre and unfortunately Christmas was necessary to get us through the Winter.

Our stuff arrived through July and we didn’t have the space to store it, so it would be put out for sale. Then we had the sales in January to clear anything left over and finally we had to attend the Christmas Shows in March to purchase stock for the next Christmas.

Plus the fact that we spent the summer selling quality plants but the winter selling dead trees and plastic tat.

I don’t like Christmas anymore.

Short Grain

3,084 posts

227 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Caught the tail end of a tv advert for posh (expensive) artificial Christmas trees earlier! So interested I can't remember the name now! laugh

Teflon Jon

4,613 posts

86 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Happy new year one and all drunk

PositronicRay

27,537 posts

190 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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We have an all year round Christmas shop in town, they do okay I think.

Maxf

8,426 posts

248 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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munroman said:
Oh, and anorak fact, I know the woman who was the model for the Tiny Tears doll, her Father was a toy designer at Palitoy.
See if he has any Star Wars stuff in his loft! A lot of the palitoy stuff is with crazy money now, and don’t get onto the value of prototypes…

valiant

11,376 posts

167 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Bah humbug.

Klippie

3,462 posts

152 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Great I love Christmas...sick of it the day after though.

dandarez

13,458 posts

290 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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wibble cb said:
Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already



They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
I dispute they were 'selling' much, if any, of it.

However, perhaps they've been fooled by the 'weather'?
This is the coolest, wettest, and worst July I've even known in my 'life', born not long after the war ended.
Roll on a bit of 'warmth'.

wibble cb

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3,759 posts

214 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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dandarez said:
wibble cb said:
Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already



They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
I dispute they were 'selling' much, if any, of it.

However, perhaps they've been fooled by the 'weather'?
This is the coolest, wettest, and worst July I've even known in my 'life', born not long after the war ended.
Roll on a bit of 'warmth'.
This is in Toronto, and they are very much for sale, all priced and in the boxes, though I agree that I doubt anyone will actually buy any right now, I love tree decorations, but I only buy them in January at 25% of the sticker price!

rodericb

7,273 posts

133 months

Sunday 30th July 2023
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Short Grain said:
Caught the tail end of a tv advert for posh (expensive) artificial Christmas trees earlier! So interested I can't remember the name now! laugh
Some sort of this & that familiar sound European name like Smith & Bell. Manufactured by Jinzhong No. 4 chemical factory.

speedchick

5,197 posts

229 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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The pub/restaurant chain my daughter works for is having their Christmas conference this week. She's doing the goodie bags so I was tasked with making 70 baubles (each with a different pub name on!), she gave me about 10 days notice!

21TonyK

11,927 posts

216 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Yep. I did a rota for Xmas last week.

Tango13

8,938 posts

183 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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21TonyK said:
Yep. I did a rota for Xmas last week.
Where I used to work it was first come first served with holidays so I'd book the week before Christmas off as holiday as soon as I got back to work in January.

Where I am now the HR bod knows I like to have that week off to the point where they remind me to keep 5 days back and to book it!

Jamescrs

4,886 posts

72 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Our work Christmas rota was done months ago, albeit it's usually covered by volunteers chasing the double time wages