It’s the beginning of August, but maybe you like to plan ahead. You’ve already started to stock up on pumpkin spice snacks, and you even picked out your kid’s costume at Costco back in July. The logical next step? It’s time to start shopping for orange decorative lights, streamers, and pumpkin-shaped flashlights for trick-or-treating. At least, that’s what Dollar Tree thinks.

Brian sent along this picture from his local store. “And here it was I thought only Xmas was allowed to push ahead in line,” he wrote to Consumerist. Oh, if only.

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