LMFAO!!! You are so right, it isn't even funny!!! It is the truth, though, and a lot of people don't even think twice about it over here, and ALL the Christmas shit starts around Halloween here, crist, I remember back when I was a kid, a week AFTER turkey day, THEN the stores would set up for the 'Fat' man in the red suit {drunken slob}, and xmas lights, candy canes, tinsel, all that shit- Hell I remember about 10 years ago one of my cats was raisin hell around the tree tuggin on the tinsel and the garland, I never thought anything of it, and two days later, I saw somethin shiny on the cat's ass, well, now, come to get a little closer, the cat had been eating the tinsel, and had a 2 foot long piece hanging out of her grocery shute, and she ran like hell to get away from me, that piece of tinsel looked like a tattered piece of foil, waving in the breeze back there- I couldn't friggin believe it, well, pardon the pun, but I guess 'shit' happens, 'eh!