Earlier and earlier

I really didn't want to mention this, but have you booked your firm's Christmas Dinner yet? The Marriott hotel has had a b****y great big banner stretched across it since May....yes, that's right, May!
When I was channel hopping a few weeks ago to see what was on the television one of the shopping channels was having a 'Christmas Weekend' and that was June. Now all the shops are advertising school uniforms for 'back to school' and the schools haven't even broken up for the summer yet! Don't they realise children actually grow a lot quicker in the summer months when there is more and brighter light and children are more active? If mums have to manage on a tight budget, buying a school uniform now ready for a child to wear in September could well be false economy when they find that it's too small and they have wasted their money. Some shops may not refund if they have not got the receipt.
I really hate it when shops get seasonal goods in ever earlier year by year. I know that they do their buying well in advance but I DO NOT want to buy summer clothing in January or thick winter woolies in an August heat wave. Neither do I want to buy Christmas cards in July (I'm not posting any to Mars) and I don't want to buy Easter eggs two days after Christmas!
No wonder people suffer stress when we are encouraged to live life at 100 miles per hour instead of taking each day as it comes. Besides, I don't have the room to put presents if I were to do my Christmas shopping too early and I certainly don't want them cluttering up the place, that means more to dust!