[trystan830]

i wear my halloween socks year 'round.

here's the thing that i've observed at my store with Xmas as well as Halloween items:

year 1, everyone wants the Thing that's heavily promoted in the ad, so they come in to get it in, say, week 3 of september... but it's sold out. so the following year they come in for the Thing in week 1 of september. now it sells out that week, so the people who were going to come in week 2 aren't able to get it. following year, all those people come in at the end of august for the Thing, and now it sells out at the end of august.

and that's how we end up having halloween in july. also, we're sold out of said Thing this year already.