Suddenly it's Christmas, right after Hallowe'en

[venta]

This morning the milkman brought us a pint of silver-top.

And a catalogue for 2008 Christmas hampers.

It's bloody February!

Comments

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Don't you pay for those hampers in instalments? If so, it would make sense selling them in February.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Look, I'm trying to be righteously indignant, don't bother me with your commonsense and factual accuracy.

[erming.livejournal.com]

It's not Christmas till you hear Noddy screaming "It's Chrissttttmassssssssss!!!!!!!!!" from shop's tannoy systems.

But yes seems to get earlier every year. :-(

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I should think so, too. Did you not know that the internet is the place for wild, undefendable claims and crackpot theories ?

;)

It's a season, it's a marathon

[j4.livejournal.com]

Earwormed! :)

Maybe it's just that (milk-carts being slow and all that) he's been trying to get to you with those catalogues since early December.

Or perhaps Feb 29th has caused A RIFT IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. Quite likely, that, I reckon.

Re: It's a season, it's a marathon

[venta.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just that (milk-carts being slow and all that) he's been trying to get to you with those catalogues since early December.

Nah... the 2008 was the date, not the number of hampers offered ;)

[(Anonymous)]

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Hope you're well!

Cathy xxx

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

I never got understood the thinking behind hampers.

As I understand it you get a large straw box containing tins and packets that you could buy anyway at the supermarket. Some of them will be things you want and some will not.

And it's probably cheaper to buy yer own.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, I agree. There's something conceptually very appealing about a hamper as a present (it's a box full of food!) but yes, I'd far prefer to buy a box and ingredients and assemble them myself to give to someone. I've never quite got why I'd want to order a hamper for myself, though.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

To save having to think about the contents (and about managing your saving for it by instalments), I guess is the idea.