'Tis the Season...

Today is September 21, the last full weekend of Summer. Autumn starts on Monday and in the northern climes, trees are beginning to show their brilliant colors.

 

QVC and HSN have already begun selling Christmas and Hannukkah products to buy, like trees, wreaths, new-style lights and delicious, savory food treats. Some are available now and some will be placed on a “layaway” schedule to be delivered in November and December.

Home Depot, Lowes and Spirit Halloween have their seasonal decorations selling now, with displays of cool animatronics to entertain you and “scare” you as you walk inside. With some, the prices certainly will. Lololol! And by mid-October, Christmas decorations will be on full display.

And Christmas, if you can believe it, will be coming again. Walmart and Costco have begun displaying some Christmas trinkets right next to the Halloween and Thanksgiving items. Since Labor Day!

Hallmark stores have been selling ornaments since July. And some are already sold out.

And speaking of Hallmark, Hallmark Channel is celebrating 15 years of “Countdown to Christmas” with 31 new movies, while Hallmark Mystery will air nine new movies as part of “Miracles of Christmas.” The annual event kicks off on Oct. 18.

SiriusXM has begun to offer “deals” to sign up “FREE” for the first three months, which will expire during the height of the full-blown Christmas season. It will be offering at least five channels of Christmas/Holiday music, which starts around November 1. At the same time, your local FM radio station will be adding Holiday music to their playlists.

I wrote earlier this month that Publix Super Markets is offering eight holiday-based ice cream flavors for your seasonal delights. Dunkin’, Starbucks and others are in full swing with Pumpkin Spice coffee and holiday-decorated treats.

Soon enough, we will be saturated with all the Major Sports being played at the same time. If you are a sports junkie, you will be able to watch the World Series, College Football and the NFL, your favorite NBA and NHL games to fill your nights and weekend viewing pleasure. And choose your fantasy teams to bet on.

Yes, friends, it is that psychotic season again where everything is jumbled together, forcing you to take in ALL that this season has to offer. And then in a flash (or in three months or January 2), it will all be over.

Let me be the first to wish you all a HAPPY HALLOWTHANKSMAS, Everyone!