# Christmas is upon us, it seems. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882 "2013-10-10T15:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/21 "2013-11-08T22:41:59Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Do we get to bet on when your yard is covered in snow? 😃 > > Too damn early our highs are still in the eighties and we may have another heat wave. > > **Capt** Arg I want highs in the 80s. I can’t believe Christmas is here before thanksgiving. :(:(:(:(😕 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/22 "2013-11-08T23:19:03Z")
My neighbour put up his Christmas lights a day or two ago. All the Hallowe’en stuff is out of the supermarket, and Christmas stuff is replacing it. Yep, Christmas is upon us. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/23 "2013-11-08T23:26:03Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Around here WalMart starts putting out their fake Xmas trees and such 3rd week of September. Really gets you in the holiday spirit. ☚ What, do you wait until the day before christmas to go buy your tree? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/24 "2013-11-08T23:31:18Z")
One of our local FM oldies rock stations switched to Christmas carols 24/7 on November first. I guess it’s dark enough in the evening not to feel completely out of place, but damn. ---
**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 8, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/25 "2013-11-08T23:55:06Z")
I was in the maul\* today. Santa was there taking pictures with the kiddies already. Ummm, what happened to Santa arriving at the end of the Thanksgiving Day Parade? Or are they bringing him early for the Jews since Hanukkah is so early this year? :rolleyes: - spelled like what happens there ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/26 "2013-11-09T01:20:44Z")
Some department stores in Sydney had their Christmas trees and other paraphernalia for sale in August. Easter eggs and Hot Cross buns will be available in supermarkets on Boxing Day. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/27 "2013-11-09T02:27:03Z")
Since our Thanksgiving comes 45 days earlier than the American one, Halloween is the traditional kickoff for Christmas shopping. I got an ad today (from Apple, no less) for their pre-black Friday sale (three weeks early). Our next door neighbor has orange lights on an evergreen tree but they might be left over from Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/28 "2013-11-09T06:44:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Egg-nog now on sale in the grocery store yesterday… You know [where egg-nog comes from](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15543664&postcount=91), right? > [@What Type of Factory Makes Milk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/91): > > (And I think, if you cross a cow with a chicken and feed the babies cinnamon pine cones, they will produce egg-nog.) ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/29 "2013-11-10T10:46:06Z")
I took my daughter to Disneyland for an early birthday present on Friday, and we found the Christmas decorations already up and Santa hats with mouse ears for sale. Also the Christmas parade went by at one point, seems they were filming the ABC Christmas special there this weekend, and the parade was part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/30 "2013-11-10T12:18:29Z")
The minute the temperature dropped to “nice” (FL) I was ready to get the decorations out. A cousin in Michigan already has her tree up. Let the games begin! I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/31 "2013-11-10T13:27:33Z")
Bah. Humbug. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/32 "2013-11-10T14:47:38Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > What, do you wait until the day before christmas to go buy your tree? Well, we get a real tree for one thing. Generally 5-7 days before. Once they go on sale. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/33 "2013-11-12T06:56:54Z")
I finished my Xmas shopping in March!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/34 "2013-11-12T11:19:32Z")
Three fourths done, but I’ll still go to mall to look at the lights. And ride around the neighborhoods to look at the lights. And go down to the boardwalk to look at the lights… ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/35 "2013-11-12T17:49:52Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > What, do you wait until the day before christmas to go buy your tree? I get a tree on the solstice. I pick out a pitiful “Charlie Brown” tree and take it home and make it beautiful. When I was young and poor, I would go to a lot on christmas eve and get a free tree after the workers were gone. These days, they pack up the trees and the lots are deserted by christmas eve morning. I don’t personally celebrate christmas but I do like a beautiful tree. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/36 "2013-11-12T18:25:39Z")
I stopped caring about the early Christmas music when I stopped working retail. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882/37 "2013-11-13T02:19:03Z")
bah humbug indeed… What a made up excuse for a holiday… Christmas does not impress me in any way shape or form. tsfr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-upon-us-it-seems/670882.md?page=1)