Vice has been running a hilarious (and sobering) column for years now called London Rental Opportunity of the Week, which I stumbled on a few days ago; the author is hanging up his shingle and wrote a kiss-off to all landlords everywhere.
November 5, 2007: 7:56PM. We saw our first Christmas-based commercial on TV (for a card company hawking a singing snowman on a toboggan).
Let the consumerism commence.