An early christmas?

[Angurek]

Is it me, or is Christmas arriving earlier and earlier each year? A local supermarket was playing X-mas music...in October! Halloween never stood a chance.

In my opinion, I wish they'd wait until the last week of November to start putting out the X-mas stuff and playing the Holiday music. I can't help but feel that the holiday loses its magic when it's celebrated months in advance. By the time the actual date rolls around, I'm sick of Christmas.

[camille1585]

If you think that's bad, it's even worse in the Netherlands! There's no Halloween or Thanksgiving to keep stores busy. Here I was shocked to see, in mid september, that the garden center/deco store was already putting out the holiday stuff and the fake trees. It was a warm sunny day, I was in a t-shirt, and it was more than depressing to see fake trees, tree decorations and fake snow. By early-mid october everything was set up and the christmas songs were playing. Now everytime I go there to buy food for my guinea pig I feel like destroying everything in sheer exasperation.

Right now it's especially bad with xmas lights in the streets and decorations in shop windows, because the Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas (St Nicolas) is in less than a month, on december 5th.

Me too, I'm more than sick of x-mas before it actually arrives!

[Nic100]

I agree that it's coming earlier and earlier, but I'm one of those few who really love it... I've been like that since I was a kid, and still get so excited! As soon as the first chill hits the air after summer I get a hankering for mulled wine. I've started planning Christmas dinner already!



BUT - I do agree that it's frustrating going into the garden centre and finding 90% of it taken over by Christmas decorations. 3 places this weekend had no stock of clear plastic pots! Outrageous!!!

[johnblagg]

I agree it isnt the first month of christmas my true love gave to me in the song ...its the first day of christmas and there are 12 of them not 90.

three months of commercial bs in the stores prempting evry thing else just ruins the mood of the actual holiday when it does arrive.

[playtime8978]

I adore christmas and everything about it but when the stores are playing Christmas music in early october I get a little irratated as they all play the same music for 3 months and you get a little sick of it, my poor husband despises Christmas music and it drives him crazy, as I have trouble walking he tends to go to the store for me now and he puts his MP3 player on and blocks it all out. We dont put the Christmas tree up early because we get too used to it being there, Christmas is a special time and although I am not really a religious person I think Christmas has totally lost its true meaning, its a religious holiday that has been overridden by commercialism and greed. Okay thats my little rant for the day, I will crawl back into my corner and shut up LOL

[Sandy4453]

When I was young, there were no signs of Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. Couldn't wait to go to Bloomingdales and see the huge X'mas tree at the top of the escalators. That's when the excitement began. I saw X'mas commercials on television the end of August, this year. Sheeeesh....

[trdyl]

Sandy, you took the words right out of my mouth.

[harrywitmore]

'Bah! Humbug!' I'm so sick of it by time it gets here I just as soon we no longer have it. We had decorations at Lowes in September.

[Nic100]

Friends of mine used to live on Christmas Lake, in Santa Clause, Indiana - I kid you not, it's a real place!!

But it meant that they never had to worry about Christmas merchandise coming into stores in September - the Christmas store (I forget the name of it) was open all year round!!!

[IraGlacialis]

The Magi gave Jesus gifts of pre-paid cards to Best Buy, Macy's, and Lowes. True story. *nods sagely*

I remember going to a supermarket in early November to find the cashiers already wearing Santa hats. Seriously?