Remember when we used to complain that we barely got through eating our pumpkin pie before people were out the door putting up their Christmas lights?  Those were the good old days.  This year I hadn't even seen "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" before being bombarded with Christmas commercials.

I had to do some last minute Halloween shopping today because our neighborhood is doing this thing called "Booing".  (For those of you unfamiliar with this, you get a bag, box or other form of container left at you door with goodies and a note stating that you have been "booed".  You then make 3 copies of the ghost, tape the ghost to your front door so people know you have already been booed, and do the same to 3 others.  It's fun but you are supposed to get stuff and deliver it within 24hrs of getting booed so as many people as possible will get booed before Halloween.) Forget finding Halloween stuff.  The stores are filled with Christmas stuff already!  It is October for goodness sake!

Why is everyone in such a rush to get their Christmas shopping done months ahead now?  I have always found part of the holiday fun to be shopping around during December, breathing in the holiday smells and looking at the holiday decorations...during the month the holiday comes!  I guess that is just me though.