Ninety-six days
That's how long until Christmas. Why do I know this? Because we just got our first stupid Christmas catalog in the mail today. Who needs Thanksgiving, Halloween, or Remembrance Day when you can proceed immediately to the promised land of the yearly orgy of consumerism?
Remember when merchants at least had the common decency to wait until after Thanksgiving day before rolling out the "Spend! Spend! Spend!" propaganda? Sheesh (or, if I'm going to proceed immediately to the OoC, "bah! humbug!")