I don't know what it's like for everyone else, but here in the England, the commercials for Chirstmas gifts get earlier and earlier each year. Well, I saw the first ones this year, yesterday, that's not THAT early you might say, but the advert was for a magazine from which you could buy your gifts for Christmas 2006! , we haven't even had Crimbo 2005 yet and already ads for Crimbo 2006 are hitting the screens here. That really is stupid, I guess it is nearly time for the Christmas ads to start, but for Christmas 2006? That's just silly. People from the UK reading this might know which ones I'm on about, the 'Park' Christmas magazine thingymabobber.
I think people are begining to forget the true meaning of Christmas .... which of course is to give me loads of money [:)]