First Halloween Merch of the Year
Technically spotted on July 1 at Michaels. Thanks to Swagger Mom for the tip-off about fall going up this week. That made me wonder, and my suspicions checked out.
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And yeah, it was mostly generic fall decorations on a couple of shelves, but over on the other side of the store, on a lonely end cap display, there was this:
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Unmistakable. Halloween ribbon.
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Frankensteins, witches, spiders, skeletons… Have you ever stopped to think how rich Halloween is in iconography?
No, the countdown does not begin here on Tobyblog for quite some time to come, but I can hardly fail to take note of this stuff when I see it.
For now, it’s summertime!