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[froodle]

OH MY GOD THE JOY! The first wave of Halloween stuff is out already. ASDA are being totally lame and still have all their back-to-school shit in, as if stupid school is as important as Halloween, but TK Maxx are off to a flying start. They had these supercute snowglobes that play "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" (I got the skeleton couple in the car, the skeleton undertaker driving a hearse and the haunted tree with ghosts in it) and this awesome haunted house tealight holder that is black and made from tin and has crenelations on the roof. Crenelations, dudes! That means added spookiness!

There were also scary mummies in coffins (we'll leave aside the fact that mummies don't live in coffins for the moment) and a voodoo dude in a tophat who was all big and had a bowl for putting sweets in, but I didn't get him because he was big and I had to walk home, and a lot of glittery things or things with spiders that I didn't like, but dude, Halloween stuff. In August! Yay!

Also, I bought this completely made-of-win spooky soundtrack from Poundland that is just howling wind with like, occaisonal crow caws and wolves holwing in the distance. This is super-important because most Halloween soundtracks totally overdo it and have fake-ass screaming and creaky doors and what I assume are supposed to be scared panting noises but really are more like porn sound effects.

Hah, and when I was in TK Maxx, there were these little kids asking their mum if they could buy some of the stuff, and she was all like, "Wahh, no, it's too far away and I am mean and want my children to suffer!" and then I came along and bought things and they were all, "But that lady's buying things!" and she was like, *glare* and her kids were like, *sad cries* and I was like, that's right kids, I can have Halloween whenever I want and you can't, because your mummy doesn't love you! Mwahaha!

Also, I was randomly given some champagne at work today. It doesn't mean the day didn't still suck, but it sucked slightly less than it would have done if nobody had given me a bottle of champagne.

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[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

Totally random, but we have TK Maxx stores here-- they're just called TJ Maxx instead. Don't get the name change, lol. :/

And the only Halloween stuff we have where I work is candy... but that's pretty much all we ever get. We're not big enough for more than that.

[froodle]

I know, it's totally weird. Maybe TJ Maxx is copyrighted over here or something?

Where do you work? Anyway, Halloween candy is better than nothing at all, which is what a lot of even our massive stores over here do for Halloween. I was in Hobbycraft today and they already have all their Christmas stuff out but not a Halloweeny thing in sight.

I really want some Halloween-themed soup/cereal bowls this year - proper ceremic ones, not bullshit Poundland plastic pieces of crap. So far I haven't spotted any but it is only August and every time I've been in TK Maxx (I work right behind an outlet centre) they've had new stuff, so I'm holding out hope.

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

I work in a little grocery store, so it's understandable that we don't have much more than candy. But yeah, I bet TK will get more stuff in, especially as September rolls on.