Better hurry. Only 117 shopping says left:
It's that special time of year again, when the first plush Santas, singing snow men and blown-glass Christmas ornaments begin to appear on store shelves.
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Labor Day, Columbus Day and Halloween, much less Thanksgiving, are now mere speed bumps on the highway to Christmas, folded into the 115-day month of Septoctnocember.
Researchers call it "Christmas creep." That's shorthand for the ever-backward march of the holiday retail season.
You know. August.
What, you find it hard to muster yuletide spirit when you're wearing a bathing suit?
Well, too bad.
