TOO SOON!

[MystyGlyttyr]

We here at the newspaper just received our first piece of mail about...

A CHRISTMAS EVENT.

NOOOOOOOOO...

[Banrion]

No, it's OK! It's almost September. I am honestly surprised you didn't start getting stuff in July!

[MystyGlyttyr]

But these are for CHRISTMAS EVENTS. Like church parties and things that aren't for four months. They're going to make us hold onto their events for FOUR MONTHS. We can only run them for two weeks prior to the event! I mean, at least in a store, stuff gets bought, but here we stuff them in a folder and have to file through them EVERY WEEK from now until we can actually RUN the damn thing!

[Banrion]

Oh Yuck! Is there any way to set up a filing system or a log to keep track of them. Even a simple Excel Spreadsheet? Or an expandable folder, with subfolders for the weeks to start running these things? It does seem quite silly that they would expect you to hold onto these things for 4 months. I thought you were talking about ads.

[Becks]

:shudders:

In our lifetimes, Christmas advertising will be a year-long event.

[Spiffy McMoron]

In our lifetimes, Christmas advertising will be a year-long event.

The advertising agent who thought of "Christmas in July" sales should be forced to work at every. Single. One of them. Even for stores that picked up the idea somewhere else.

It's the same principle as "engineers should fix the cars they design" and "Authors should read the books that they write."

[draftermatt]

Last year I was in a K-mart looking for school supplies (in August), and there were some Christmas things up. It's started

[Tria]

That is a cute cat, fat, but cute.

[Soulstealer]

Kitty!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

We got in an ass-ton of glass Christmas ornaments on our truck yesterday. Along with Lemax village stuff and fake Christmas trees

We have to have the first half of Christmas set by the middle of next month. Oy vey.

[Misanthropical]

This is one of the reasons I loath Christmas. It's pushed on people almost before school starts.

[Imogene]

"Authors should read the books that they write."

*blink, blink* I tend to re-read my older stories every year or so, when I come across the hard copies I printed out just after the stroke. And I see painfully obvious ways I could've made the plot work better, or more details I could've added.

[Spiffy McMoron]

I tend to re-read my older stories every year or so, when I come across the hard copies I printed out just after the stroke.

I meant that they were forced to read them after they were published, so that they could see any gaping plot holes/terrible grammar/annoying characters. (This is naturally aimed towards crappy authors. )