Its EASTER right now! I always thought Easter was in April?

Question

We all know that Easter is more than a month away in April right?
Why is it that they put out decorations and candy for these holidays way-way to early? Now everywhere I go I am starting to see Easter signs and the kids are going to be bugging about the bunny coming for the next 40 something days. *angry facial expression
-"Look mom, chocolate eggs"--"I want chocolate eggs!"--"whens the Easter bunny coming?"--2 hours later "whens the Easter bunny coming mom?" Drive me frickin' nuts. lol
For Christmas they had stuff out at the the beginning of November and the kids were almost exhausted about Santa by the time he actually got here and then Valentines Day was the same. I can understand with Christmas cause people wanna be prepared but seriously...how hard is it to get out and buy some little treats and some candy.
Does this bug anyone else? It just seems like holidays are for commercial use only ya know---there is no actually feeling to them anymore unless your buying something. :(

Answer 1

Easter is in April this year, but the date varies. I get what you're saying, though. The stores put out the holiday decorations way too early. Get this - I took my son trick - or - treating at a "safe" Halloween event at our local mall this year, and some stores already had Christmas trees up! My son was collecting Halloween candy while asking when Santa was coming. Needless to say, I avoided the mall for the next 6 weeks.

I love the holidays, but only during the actual holiday season. Seeing stores try to push candy canes and stockings in July just puts me in a bad mood.

Answer 2

With the economy right now, stores are doing everything they can to make a buck. Of course, this is nothing new, but they want a head start.



What is worse, there are still some who 'keep' Lent and want to give up candy or things like that, and they are confronted with stuff all the time. I hope they have willpower.



Christmas usually starts earlier than November, but they do have Halloween things out by Labor Day now.



All holidays and things like that are commercialized. I don't mean any disrespect, but there are Martin Luther King day sales. In a few years, if they are not doing it already, there will be '9/11 sales', even though it is not really a holiday yet.

Answer 3

I always say that because it's always early for everything I mean Halloween is over and bam Christmas stuff. Then it's so hard to keep him away from those aisles because of all the baskets and toys that the "bunny" will bring that he starts to realize he's not real. I think he might just get to the punch this year and say no bunny no santa but I'm not sure if he's ready for that, he is 6 by the way. Plus I'm not ready for the "mom you lied to me" lol. Gets worse because now he sees egg coloring kits and every single time we go to the store he's like mom when are we going to do eggs mom mom mom I avoid those aisles as much as possible lol.



There is one thing that I usually can't wait for and kinda happy they are early lol giant reese eggs I love those and to me they taste different than the trees or pumpkins.

Answer 4

Yeah - you're not kidding! Two years ago, I was birthday shopping for someone in the middle of October at Walmart. I didn't know it ahead of time, but they had trick or treating for kids that night - no big deal, right? Halloween was just around the corner. Needless to say, we also ran into Santa and Mrs. Claus that night! I couldn't believe my freakin eyes! Halloween and Christmas all rolled into one! Yes, my daughter got her picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus on October 12th! I will never forget that... How ridiculous!



I keep trying to remember to grab things for my daughter for Easter when I see them and don't have her with me, but then I have to remind myself that it will be sitting around for another month and a half! It is nuts, the day after Easter they will probably have all the Halloween stuff out! LOL So yeah, you're not the only one, it is really bugging me lately too. I'd like to go into a store just once without seeing the next holiday's stuff all set out already!

Answer 5

Easter will more often than not fall in April, but can fall in March. It is calculated by the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. Since that is around March 21-23rd, the latest Easter can be is about a month later. It can never be in May, but can be in March and is usually in April.

Answer 6

Seriously- more then 99.9999% of the stores already had Easter crap out even before they had taken New Years stuff down. I thankfully do all our holiday shopping no matter what it is with out the kids so they dont see what it is til they get it. Even if they did see it at the store I always tell them to write it on their wish list and who knows they might get it they might not this yr. So far this has kept them excited about what they want to get and actually get.



Oh and I totally agree its all Commercial theres no real meaning behind any of it anymore. Back when I was a kid in the 80's it wasnt this bad and we still knew what it ment to belive in the holiday. WTF happened to us?





Edit: hands Nina a whole case of Coconut kisses... here you take them cant stand the things. Love my MIL but hate coconut..lol

Answer 7

Stores know that the sooner they put out the goods the more of it will be bought because kids will bug their parents to DEATH!



It's a ploy I'm telling you!! For the destruction of parents everywhere!!!! My son is already asking for the cool candies and Easter goodies. I'm sitting here like "Thanks a lot Walmart!"



I just try to stay away from an aisle that has ANYTHING to do with Easter for now. It's not until April 12.

Answer 8

Its all about the money. The kids want this and that and a lot of parents buy it. Of course nobody can wait until easter so they eat it and then have to go buy it all over again.

Answer 9

That's how stores work. You display the items for the next big holiday as soon as the current big holiday is over.



You don't have it that bad - we don't even celebrate Christmas and Easter, so we have to put up with stores full of items we don't even use.



All the best.

Answer 10

We just bought Easter baskets at Sam's last night, lol. It doesn't bug me for one reason and one reason only..... my all-time favorite candy (coconut kisses) are only available at Easter, which means I get an early start!

Answer 11

Another prime example of how our holidays have turned into profit making enterprises for stores!

They do this to make more money, because they know people have kids that will do this, and also because some people are "impulse" shoppers!

Answer 12

it is at my local shop they started with easter eggs on january the 2nd i have had to buy my kids some to shut them up lol

Answer 13

It is in april.They do put stuff out way to early.

Answer 14

it pisses me off because my kids arent stupid and it ruins the Whole Easter bunny thing ..when you see it all in the store then in your easter basket

Answer 15

i hate it when they put halloween stuff our in july.

Answer 16

No - Easter is an island.