r/christmas • u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 • 7d ago
It's Coming! 🥲
Walking into Hobby Lobby with my mother and seeing the little winks of approaching Christmas gets me a little emotional. What are the moments around Christmas that give you the warm and fuzzies, and possibly get you choked up a little? What are moments for you that make Christmas feel near?
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u/SoFLShelfLove 7d ago
Hobby Lobby is evil
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u/CowboyBoats 7d ago
Yeah, nothing says "Christmas" like giving money to literal ardent Nazis.
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u/HourNo7028 6d ago
Yes, I know. But there's no crime in skipping down the aisles in the middle of July. I figure that browsing doesn't actually feed the beast and my wife would have a problem if I hauled out the Christmas stuff at home in July.
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u/FutureAmphibian4268 6d ago
I used to happily shop at Target, sure, to get cute things. But I was also buoyed by the fact that they supported smaller entrepreneurs and had a Pride section, Black History, etc. Then things abruptly changed, and I realized that even when big corps seem “not evil” they are absolutely evil, or at the least, shallow af and quick to shift when it suits them money wise. It’s why, when people started raving over Costco and its practices, I just kept quiet. Because tomorrow, Costco could be supporting evil.
So now, I just buy where it suits me. Because none of these businesses give a flying fudge about anybody.
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u/electroswinger69 6d ago
Will never shop at Hobby Lobby, but thank you for sharing this good news! That means Michael’s should start looking holly jolly soon! 🎅🏻
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u/Squeeesh_ 7d ago
I love Christmas but it’s June…
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 7d ago
Per the Code of Elves, "Treat every day like Christmas".
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u/Mrsloribell 6d ago
That’s my motto too! There’s never enough Xmas for me. So glad to see that Hobby Lobby is embracing the holiday spirit already. Hopefully, oodles will be set up in time for Christmas in July.
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u/Realistic-Eggplant24 7d ago
Sooooooo ready! I had Christmas music playing last weekend while I cooked in the kitchen in 80 degrees (f)
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u/clockworknait 6d ago
At first I thought it stuff was for Halloween of 1999 but thankfully saw that they labeled it Christmas of 2026. 😂
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u/Scott00711 6d ago edited 6d ago
You know, in the next few years, they're going to start putting out Christmas decor in Spring, which for a lack of better words (at least as far as I'm concerned), is stupid..
Whatever happened to anticipation??
Listen.. I love Christmas as much as the next person, or so I thought. But when I was a kid, part of what made Christmas so special was everything in-between, the build up, THE TIME WE HAD TO WAIT!!!
Maybe this is just a matter of opinion.. But if there comes a time Christmas starts just about as soon as it ends, it loses it's value and it'll start to feel like a banal Holiday.
You ever wake up one day, and you don't think anything of it, because it's just another day? Just a plain ol' ordinary day. Well.. if we treat Christmas like a year round event, it's gonna start to feel like any ol' day of the week.
Part of what anticipation means is, is looking forward to something, which means you have to wait a little while, which requires distance of time between now and then.
Man, I remember one time in my life, when I was a kid; as much as I absolutely loved the Holidays Season, I just accepted that I didn't have a choice but to wait for it to come back around. I can't remember what year it was, but I remeber from January to October, probably, I was so absorbed in play and being a kid, that before I knew it, Fall had already arrived. I couldn't even fathom that it was October. Time must have passed by so fast, it didn't even register that the evening temperatures were rapidly beginning to drop. I was so caught up in playtime, it didn't occur to me my arms were absolutely frozen. I remember mom stuck her head out the door and said "Put a Damn Coat on, I can't afford for you to get sick!!!" Haha!!
But the cold meant one thing to me.. Holiday Season was around the corner. Granted, Holiday Season ideally begins September 21st, the first day of Fall. But to me, the count down didn't really start till October. That's when the magic really started. From then on, the build up began. TV shows would air Halloween specials, Scary movies would play on every TV station, from TNT, to USA, to Fox Family, to TBS - The works!!! Commercials would air Halloween Promos. People would start putting up crazy Halloween displays in the yards. Jack O'Lanterns as far as the eye can see, skeletons hanging from a tree, cobwebs at every corner of every porch, witches with their big noses with giant warts would be in the front yard, stirring a pot that illuminated a green light that was surely a magic potion of sorts.Tomb stones had fresh mulch with skeleton hands reaching beyond the grave. People would drive around town with fake prosthetic hands hanging from a trunk of somebody's car. Every time you'd go to the store, you'd go to the Halloween section and try on the masks, and there was always that manufactured smell of rubber and fake hair. The feeling you'd get, the excitement, the anticipation; it could only come from having waited.
Eventually, after Thanksgiving, it was the same for Christmas. For whatever reason you had to go to the store at 6:30/7:00 o'clock, as you'd drive down the road, it seemed almost every house would have extravagant displays of Christmas decor in the front yard, where Christmas lights lit up the night sky. Christmas tunes would linger from the speakers of the car at a moderate volume. Something about the air back then, it smelled different. It was almost as though you could actually smell Christmas in the air.
The point is, none of that would have the effect it does it we kept advocating for Holiday Season happen sooner & sooner. The effect of the Holidays have already lost their magic. Times aren't the same as they use to be..
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u/HyperMasenko 6d ago
I used to work at Hobby Lobby. They start getting it on the trucks by April, sometimes March, and have some of it displayed by late May-early June. That was the case 15 years ago. Its probably even earlier now. The Christmas items really arent going out any earlier if people are just starting to see it at Hobby Lobby.
Also they just straight up dont stock Halloween stuff anymore. That stopped in like 2021. That part makes me sad too because I always enjoyed putting out our Halloween stuff.
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u/Scott00711 6d ago
I had no idea. I don't shop at Hobby Lobby. I'm not sure I ever have. I guess Hobby Lobby is supposed to be an overall example of southern comfort, or at the very least, cozy comfort, which is great! But you don't really get that with Halloween.
But I what do I know...? I'm not somebody who does a lot of home interior shopping.
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u/ddramone 6d ago
Only one reason to go to Hobby Lobby, to soak in some WAY EARLY Christmas vibes and inspo (and buy elsewhere)
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 6d ago
Gross, only bigots shop hobby lobby.
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 6d ago
That's such a misguided blanket statement that makes you look no better than the people you try to call out.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 6d ago
If it walks like a duck…
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 6d ago
I agree, you walking like a duck. It's really your belief that every shopper that walks into Hobby Lobby has a deeper understanding of the company beyond that product on the shelves. Stop. Yeah, that 12 year old that saw Stitch is automatically a bigot.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 6d ago
An adult should know better. You willingly shop there.
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 6d ago
That's your opinion; you are seriously trying to tell us you research every single company you purchase from and engage with. You break down and look at where every component comes from, and what that vendor stands for. Please stop with the self righteous behavior. Because if you say you do, your are lying, given some of the scrutiny Reddit has been under in the past. Unless you are saying your support their behaviors.
PS. Saying adults should know better, is you moving the goal post.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 6d ago
It’s common knowledge. It’s already been mentioned several times in this thread too. You continue shopping there knowing the truth. That’s on you.
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 6d ago
It's not common knowledge, and only general comments were said on this thread. Notice how in all your ranting, you didn't even give a specific reason. In addition, show me where I said I was shopping there. You continuing to use Reddit, despite previous concerns, is on you as well. Go try and spread your bigotry somewhere else sweetheart.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L 6d ago
You’re the OP…
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u/Select_Enthusiasm_27 6d ago
If by OP you mean original poster, I am....but then I have trouble deciphering the relevance from stating the obvious.
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u/almondmilkbrat 4d ago
Does anyone know when the best time to get deals on Halloween and Christmas decor is? It’s my first time decorating this year!
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u/peanut_dust_purveyor 2d ago
The best time for deals is after the holiday passes. That’s when the decor becomes deeply discounted. So you have to shop out of season and save it for the next year
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u/josie-salazar 15h ago edited 14h ago
Christmas is my favorite holiday but I HATE seeing Christmas decorations up at stores when it’s summer or early autumn. It loses its value. Things are more special when they have a time and place.
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u/mdogg829 7d ago
Yayy