"Merry Christmas everyone!" Topic

Yes. I have seen the first decorations go up, I have received the first 'Christmas' mailers, and even heard the first Christmas jingle in a shopping mall.

Don't get me wrong. I like Christmas, including the trashy commercial elements. But November 1?

Okay, more puzzled amusement than a rave, but it seemed the closest board.

In the meantime: Merry Christmas to one and all y'all!

I wholeheartedly agree. It just diminishes Christmas – when it finally comes around you are absolutely tired of it all.

(Besides, all the green, red, and gold kitsch hurts my eyes.)

Count me on board with you guys, too. I can tell y'all, through personal experience, about one store that begins to receive their Christmas items in July! And by the time the holiday actually arrives, their seasonal items are already on clearance.

To me, it's just pushing product and collecting capital, rather than a true observance and reverence of the real meaning of the holiday.

Target and Michael's both had their Christmas stuff out alongside the Halloween stuff this year. I went looking for a costume for my daughter, and thought I heard Christmas carols….turns out I was right, they already had an endcap with Chrismas CDs and two full lanes of ornaments just past the last row of Halloween costumes…

Don't forget the Foundry Christmas sale is over….

Heck, craft stores have had stuff out since JULY. Hobby Lobby went full bore with it back at the end of September.

Is it like that in other countries that celebrate Christmas, or peculiar to the U.S.?

Christmas! Bah! Humbug! Christmas should not start until Dec 1st!

Don't get me wrong. I like Christmas, including the trashy commercial elements. But November 1?

I used to hate Christmas, but I've managed to calm myself down to mild discomfort. It's all just so forced…

Anyway, people should really shut the heck up about it until after Thanksgiving (or December 1st, for Canadians).
-Kle.

The City of Yukon started putting up X-mess stuff in September…..

You are so late – Bob Dylan put his christmas album out weeks ago !

The craft stores pushing Xmas in July makes limited sense given that they the items may require assembly/painting or whatever, but for the other places it does diminish the value of the holiday.

I agree with craft stores having Christmas items ahead of schedule. It takes time to make those instant-kitsch items that you'll foist off onto those for whom you can't figure out a gift, but don't want to annoy by not giving them something.

Right now, retailers are in a panic after last year's disaster and they're already going into late-season sale mode NOW. At least most waited until after Halloween to put up the Christmas stuff. I think it was eight years ago we seemingly went from "Back to School" sales directly to Christmas in mid October.

What annoys me is the ice cream truck has been playing Christmas music since July.

Wyatt

Silly me, I wnet looking for Halloween stuff on the 29th!

"Is it like that in other countries that celebrate Christmas, or peculiar to the U.S.?"

It's seems to be fairly rampant all over Europe, at least.
The U.S. looks to be even more commercial, and perhaps a lot of it starts a little earlier, but I've seen a fair bit of Christmas stuff here in Sweden already.

<<"Christmas! Bah! Humbug! Christmas should not start until Dec 1st>>

Actually, Advent should start Dec. 1st and Christmas should start on Dec. 25th and last until Epiphany on Jan. 6th.

"Is it like that in other countries that celebrate Christmas, or peculiar to the U.S.?"

I'm in Singapore. Christmas isn't even the biggest holiday here. That's Chinese New Year. And the guys that take down the Christmas decorations put up the CNY decorations at the same time. Next year, CNY will be Feb 14 – 15.

Work during Christams is pure hell. Starting the day after Thanksgiving to January 1st they play the Christmas music station on XM. 5 different versions of the same ten songs over and over for ten hours a day every day is enough to drive you insane.

Music Choice is already starting with it on their Sounds of The Seasons channel.

I live in the UK. It's here too, commercialism gone mad. And it annoys the hell out of me. In mid October I went shopping for some things for a Halloween party and, I kid you not, right next to the halloween masks, vampire teeth and werewolf hairy hands, there sat the Christmas display, complete with tinsel, trees and musak style carols. The shop hadn't even bothered to seperate Halloween from Christmas, it was all there at the same spot! It was Halloween for Christ's sake! (pun intended).

I like the way the easter eggs go on display the first day after christmas that the supermarkets are open

Oh, and that hot cross buns are available all year round now….

We don't need seasons anymore, now that we live in the airconditioned shopping mall.

Yeps…stuff here has been in the stores since August…

rather than a true observance and reverence of the real meaning of the holiday.

You mean wheh Zoraoster sprang from a rock that had been struck by lightening?
--
Tim

Merry Christmas, back at ya, Whatsitgoodforatwork.

It's been quite a few years now since the Christmas decorations went up after Halloween. It used to bug me until I remembered that I LOVE Christmas. Tradionally, people are a lot nicer at that time of year.

Let's have it 24/7/364 and we can love each other non-stop.

JW

24 hours a day
7 days a week
364 weeks of a ….7 years ?

:-)