# Christmas in November **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371 "2015-11-01T22:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/21 "2015-11-03T07:16:50Z")
The parking lot of a grocery store in Raleigh had Christmas decorations up on Saturday (though the store itself was still fall-themed inside). SiriusXM started up its Christmas channels at 5 PM yesterday. Pretty sure I saw a lit tree in a house as I was driving home last night. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/22 "2015-11-03T12:37:46Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Fuck all a yall that have already been running Christmas shows (looking at you fucking Hallmark Channel, not that your stupid romantic comedies set at Christmas are worth watching at any time) or playing Christmas music, running Christmas ads, whatever. Just fuck you. That is all. > > PS-I am not a Scrooge, and I love Christmas, but I love it at the appropriate time and that time does not start on November 1st. Or even earlier for some of you fuckwads. It’s Daylight Savings Christmas. Always takes me by surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/23 "2015-11-03T21:05:56Z")
At least let them start running Die Hard every day so I can watch the only decent Christmas movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/24 "2015-11-04T02:24:56Z")
Christmas carols AND SANTA FUCKING CLAUS at the mall today I am filled with enormous christmas spirit… the day after Thanksgiving. Today it almost made me have a stroke ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/25 "2015-11-04T02:29:31Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Fuck Christmas. Seriously, fuck it. > > I \*am \*a goddamn Scrooge, and it’s the bullshit mindless desperate fetishization of the holiday that has made me so. > (While we’re at it, fuck Thanksgiving, too. Fucking useless worship of gluttony and excess.) \*Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. \* ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/26 "2015-11-04T02:41:42Z")
Salvation Army Bell Ringers at Grand Central, already…they are a quasi religious sect that really should know better…Christmas prep begins on the first Sunday of Advent for us religious folk and not sooner. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/27 "2015-11-04T03:07:25Z")
One of my neighbors put up Christmas decorations a month ago. I retaliated with garden gnomes. Every night I move them closer to her yard and I’m praying for another hurricane to blow away her stupid singing snow globe. You can’t trust kids anymore, I really hoped that they would do something about that stupid thing on Halloween, but nothing happened. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/28 "2015-11-04T03:36:57Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > \*Deck the halls with boughs of holly, > Fa la la la la, la la la la. > Tis the season to be jolly, > Fa la la la la, la la la la. > \* That’s it, pal. You’re on the naughty list. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/29 "2015-11-04T09:28:55Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > At least let them start running Die Hard every day so I can watch the only decent Christmas movie ever. Exactly! Starbucks employees are already wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers. AND they have to listen to Christmas carols for the next SEVEN weeks. I’d want to murder someone by about November 15th and I actually love Christmas. …just in December… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/30 "2015-11-04T16:26:06Z")
New rule: Any business that decorates and/or runs “holiday” music on the sound system is required to increase hourly pay for each employee by $10.00. This rule is suspended between December 1 and December 24. There. I just solved both Christmas in November AND Black Friday creep. Never mind about the statue of me on the National Mall. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/31 "2015-11-04T17:13:36Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > Christmas carols AND SANTA FUCKING CLAUS at the mall today > > I am filled with enormous christmas spirit… the day after Thanksgiving. Today it almost made me have a stroke That’s why Canada has Thanksgiving in October. 😃 Although I am being bombarded by Facebook posts exhorting me to wait until after Remembrance Day (Nov 11th) to put up Christmas decorations. Like one has to do with the other. I compromise by putting up red Christmas lights. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/32 "2015-11-04T17:47:18Z")
I was in a Rite Aid the day before Halloween, and they’d already cleared out most of the ‘harvest decor’ (read: Thanksgiving crap) in favor of ‘holiday decor’ (read: Christmas crap). Which just goes to show that the War on Christmas is going even worse than our other Wars on abstract nouns. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > New rule: Any business that decorates and/or runs “holiday” music on the sound system is required to increase hourly pay for each employee by $10.00. This rule is suspended between December 1 and December 24. Whereas working retail during the Christmas shopping season is nigh unto the torments of Hell, I move to amend by striking the final sentence - if you’re catering to the sort of people who go into stores that play ‘holiday’ music, you can damn well pay your employees extra for the duration. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/33 "2015-11-04T23:32:09Z")
> [@kbear](#): > > Exactly! > > Starbucks employees are already wearing Santa hats and **reindeer antlers**. AND they have to listen to Christmas carols for the next SEVEN weeks. I’d want to murder someone by about November 15th and I actually love Christmas. > > …just in December… Nov 30[sup]th[/sup] is opening day. If they look like a deer & you just happen to shoot ‘em, it’s their own frickin’ fault. Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/34 "2015-11-04T23:43:13Z")
Holiday season? Does that mean we can kill them? ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/35 "2015-11-04T23:43:49Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > If we must have Christmas, the first we hear about it should be December 15th. I’d prefer it simply disappear. We’re skipping it entirely this year, and Id I have my way, every year thereafter. My birthday is December 7, and I’ve always thought that no Christmas stuff should happen before then. Because it’s all about me! 🆒 (My family always decorated the tree the weekend after my birthday. Yes, I am the spoiled oldest child.) Seriously, no Christmas until I’m done with the War on Thanksgiving! I cannot keep up with this pace! ---
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/36 "2015-11-06T03:01:52Z")
Most grocery stores where I’m from seem to go right from Halloween to Christmas these days. While I can understand some place like a mall wanting to get a head start (even though it is still so very wrong) on selling toys and clothes for Christmas shoppers, why would a grocery store want to skip a holiday devoted to, y’know, _food_? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/37 "2015-11-06T04:02:06Z")
I’ve found one category of Christmas ad that I don’t mind running early: those for vacation destinations, since travel involves a lot of lead time and preplanning. Anything selling anything on demand can go to hell, I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/38 "2015-11-06T04:31:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Not to get all Game Room-y in the Pit, but who won the World Series (once the Dodgers are gone, it doesn’t count, so I don’t pay attention)? I know who won, but I agree with you on the team. I was secretly hoping there was some way they could both lose. No dice. > [@flatlined](#): > > One of my neighbors put up Christmas decorations a month ago. I retaliated with garden gnomes. Every night I move them closer to her yard and I’m praying for another hurricane to blow away her stupid singing snow globe. You can’t trust kids anymore, I really hoped that they would do something about that stupid thing on Halloween, but nothing happened. How is Project Garden Gnome doing? 😃 And, FTR, Christmas “season” should start after Thanksgiving NOT before Halloween. The world is insane. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/39 "2015-11-06T14:19:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Holiday season? Does that mean we can kill them? That made me laugh. 🙂 When I rule the world, there will be no Christmas ANYTHING until after Thanksgiving dinner. Went to the mall last night. They had Christmas decorations up. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371/40 "2015-11-06T15:18:15Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > Salvation Army Bell Ringers at Grand Central, already…they are a quasi religious sect that really should know better… If a church is only “quasi religious,” they’re doing it wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371.md?page=3)