I for one am getting tired of seeing Christmas stuff weeks before Thanksgiving. Seattle based department store Nordstrom's is too.
From The Consumerist comes this breath of fresh air:
Nordstrom Opposes Christmas CreepVery cool! At the store, we have a few Thanksgiving decorations up. After Thanksgiving, we will be getting some garland and a small tree. As they say, one holiday at a time please... A bit of history - when I lived in Boston, one of the places I lived was a warehouse loft. The store on the ground floor sold window decorations to other stores and they always had displays in their windows. Since there was a certain amount of lead time involved, the displays were always several months out of sync. A strange thing to be stumbling home after a night on the town and walk past a window full of Christmas decorations when it was still July or August...
Nordstrom has conquered the urge to celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving. The retailer announced its decision to respect the calendar and common sense by hanging signs declaring that they will wait until the day after Thanksgiving, the earliest acceptable moment, to display their Christmas decorations. The vainglorious announcement is an important indicator that Nordstrom's competitors have overdone the unseasonable cheerfulness schtick.
