^ Probably box cars of preservatives.
Christmas Watch 2019
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Used to be Christmas candy started getting to the stores early October around here. There would still be a lot left to sell at half-price after Christmas Day (or rather, Boxing Day, which is a bank holiday in Germany, simply called "Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag", "Second Christmas Holiday"). But since a year or two, they started in August, and then they start getting fewer and fewer even in mid-December. So, they clearly don't simply produce more to sell earlier, they produce about the same amount, but just start selling earlier so they can sell more at full-price.
Who said Christmas was becoming too commercial?!
Who said Christmas was becoming too commercial?!
I keep thinking about all the Christmas candy and cookies that go on sale in August/September. Won't that all be stale as hell, or go completely off by Christmas? Or just as bad--are there enough preservatives in all that crap that keep it edible for that long?
Not a terribly appetizing thought, either way.
I assume the theory is that if you buy it in September, you won't be able to resist it, then you finish it all, and then you have to buy *more* in December.
Totally not speaking from personal experience.
This thread reminds me of a Garfield and Friends cartoon. Where they got super into Christmas in July.
That cartoon was way better than the comic strip.
That cartoon was way better than the comic strip.
we're drowning in ginger bread ever since August. It gives me a craving for ice cream.
Thank heavens, the mall in the basement of my house doesn't participate in this nonsense. They have a nice autumn-ish decoration with hot air balloons and colourful leaves. But there already is the odd pumpkin in some shop windows.
Thank heavens, the mall in the basement of my house doesn't participate in this nonsense. They have a nice autumn-ish decoration with hot air balloons and colourful leaves. But there already is the odd pumpkin in some shop windows.
Sorry, you have a mall in your basement? How does that work exactly? (And, um, how big is your house??)
At first I just assumed we had different definitions of the word “mall”, but it sounds like you’re talking about multiple shops, so it seems to be at least somewhat similar.
Maybe she means a shopping arcade.
OK, I looked that up online, and am still confused as to how that could be located in one's basement.
Admittedly, I am intrigued by the thought of doing all my shopping without leaving the house. But then I would presumably have to let all the store employees and other shoppers into my basement, so no, I wouldn't care for that much.
Yeah, well, basement obviously not, but ground floor. Like, here's an arcade in France:
The ground floor has shops, but the house above has apartments.
This is at least what I'm guessing @rhubarbodendron meant.
The ground floor has shops, but the house above has apartments.
This is at least what I'm guessing @rhubarbodendron meant.
^ Ah, OK, it wasn't so much different definitions of the word "mall", it was different definitions of the word "house". I don't think I've ever heard anyone around here refer to an apartment building as a house before.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Yes indeed. In my case it's a block of houses, about 150 by 150 meters, which originally had a yard in the middle. The yard got covered over and both in the basement and on the ground floor there is a shopping center/mall/arcade. The 1st floor has mostly storage rooms and workshops. The top 2 floors of the original houses tower over the roofed-over yard like battlements and are still apartments. The single houses are all divided vertically so that every apartment has 2 floors. Mine even has part of the roof over the old yard as a terrace
