Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Originally Posted by 13mummy

Ohhhh I was wondering if the fall stuff would be out soon. Since my mother-in-law just bought some summer clearance stuff this past weekend from Micheals.

Is it even technically summer yet? Wow the seasons are melding into one.

I soooooo love just walking through the aisles of Halloween stuff, even if I'm not buying anything. It just seems right.

Holy crap, I was just telling my wife it would probably come out after the 4th, she thought I was nuts til she thought about it a few. HMMM I have a 40 percent off coupon they gave me last weekend!

That is great it is getting closer

Originally Posted by pandora

I always love it when friends say "oh are you still into that?"....well DUH !

LOL! I walked into a meeting at work last week and one guy says, "So, you working on Halloween stuff yet?" And I start to talk about how behind I am and what I'm building and my boss walks in and says, "What are you guys talking about?" to which I reply, "My Halloween stuff!" and he says, "Oh, you're doing that big display again?" And my immediate thought... "No, I just spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours and days last year to do it once..." (I just moved to Kansas last year, so people here have only seen it once).

Some people just don't get it!

But Hooray for Michael's! But I do recall people on the forums last year talking about Halloween stuff coming out early and most of the stores in our lovely bible-belt state didn't have anything until nearly August!

I've been keeping my eye out at Michael's and Joann's around here, but so far, they are *just* beginning to sale out the Summer stuff, opening up a few aisles. Woohoo! I LOVE when the Halloween stuff starts to come out! It just starts to get that buzz going in the air!

This is awesome!!! I was just reading some of my old threads from last year and oe of them I started was a very similar thread that I wrote when I came home from Michael's right after the 1st of July. But now that its started even earlier I'm so excited!! Im going to Michaels today just to get warm fuzzy feeling again that Halloween is just around the corner! Wait a Minute! That means I'm way behind in my props!! ...as usual ...

Does anyone know if there are any Nichael's in Indiana and if so, where. I need some crows.

That should have been Michael's.

Glad to hear that so many others eagerly await the first autumn/halloween/falloween merchandise sightings.

I detest the acceleration of the calendar that the retail world embraces, for example, finding the first box of Valentine's Day cards awkwardly planted on the denuded shelves of a thoroughly trashed retail store, bleak in their nakedness, reflecting the bitter end of the glorious Autumn-Halloween-Thanksgiving-Hanukkah/Christmas run.

When it comes to Fall and Halloween, however, they can't start soon enough for me!

I was in a Hobby Lobby store on May 29th and above the Independence Day decor near the front of the store, there were a small assortment of ceramic pumpkins, upon one of which were engraved the words "Autumn Greetings". I got a little giddy at the sight.