My husband and I stopped at Target on Tuesday to return a few things. While we were there, I checked to see if they had any discounted Halloween candy, because I had a hankering for candy corn. Whoever was responsible for ordering the Halloween candy at Target had totally overdone it on the Brach’s Autumn Mix this year. There were boxes and boxes of it left over. We arrived just in time to snag a bag of it. A Target employee was removing the product from the shelves even as I debated over whether to get the traditional candy corn or the Autumn Mix. I don’t know what they were planning to do with the excess candy (the woman said they were “getting rid of it”). It’s sad, but there’s no room in the world for leftover Halloween candy anymore. Everyone’s obsessed with Christmas now. Considering that some stores start putting Christmas stuff on the shelves in October, skipping Halloween and Thanksgiving both, I guess I should be grateful that Target at least still lets us have Halloween.
In related news, I am irritated that Hallmark and other streaming services have pretty much skipped autumn and moved straight into winter/Christmas romance movies. Don’t they know that autumn is awesome? There ought to be oodles of autumn-themed movies, and that’s what I want to watch right now. If I were to start watching Christmas movies now, not only would they be totally out of season, but there wouldn’t be any new ones left by the time December rolled around. Save Christmas for December. Meanwhile, give me more romances featuring Halloween, fall foliage, hayrides, pumpkins, apples, and other fun, fall-related things!
Huh! I thought I’d seen a number of awful-sounding autumnal rom-coms and assumed they were from Hallmark. Are they already gone?
There are a few, but only a few, and they’ve been kicking around for a while. Every time I look at the “new arrivals,” it’s all Christmas and has been for weeks.