# Here we go again... and it' STILL too friggin early for this **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019 "2001-10-02T18:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/1 "2001-10-02T18:44:09Z")
This has now become my obligatory annual rant. Last year, in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40026), I posted about the blatant commercialization of Christmas and how early they started advertising for it. It’s that time of the year again. The time of year when the trees still all have their leaves. I can go outside in a short-sleeved shirt and feel the warm sun beating on my face while I play with my kids in my freshly mowed lawn and enjoy the last days of summer… and watch commercials advertising for Christmas! I don’t fucking believe it. There should be a law or something outlawing this assenine capitalization of wonderful and sacred time. I’m just so infuriated by this that I can’t even type out a decent rant here. Are people so wrapped up on making a buck? I hear people every year complain about the “real” meaning of Christmas is slowly being lost. Well, get these racoon colon licking fuckers to stop advertising for it in September and October. Anything more than 5 or 6 weeks of Christmas ads is more than enough for anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/2 "2001-10-02T18:50:01Z")
God bless us, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/3 "2001-10-02T18:56:57Z")
So contact those retailers and tell them you won’t be buying their products because they advertised before November 25. God bless Nordstrom’s - they don’t even decorate until the day after Thanksgiving. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/4 "2001-10-02T19:00:45Z")
(putting hands over ears) La, la, la, la, la, I can’t hear you, retailers. It’s not even Halloween yet! ---
**Author:** ![gtzaskar00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@gtzaskar00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gtzaskar00)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/5 "2001-10-02T19:01:43Z")
Are they doing this because shoppers want them to, or do shoppers think they want it because it has been done for so long? A whole twist on the chicken and egg. Same goes with next year car models… also I received in the mail today a November issue of a magazine. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/6 "2001-10-02T19:02:56Z")
Hear, hear! It seems like every year, Christmas starts getting advertised earlier and earlier. Everything is early. I was seeing those mondo bags of “Halloween candy” on sale practically the first week of September. It seems like retailers jump from Halloween to Christmas. Where’s Thanksgiving? When I was a kid (I hate saying that), I remember the stores gave Thanksgiving some time too. Personally, I think that the playing of holiday music should NOT be allowed until December 1st.I get annoyed when you start hearing Christmas music the last week of October, and the crap gets played out of it, so that when Christmas time actually rolls around, I’m SICK of hearing it. And the song “Jingle Bells” needs to be outlawed, for a couple decades at least. Penalty for playing Christmas music early: flogging with a wet tinsel garland. Penalty for playing “Jingle Bells”: being forced to listen to the all-dogs version of it, or Burl Ives singing “Holly Jolly Christmas”, whichever the person hates more, for 72 hours straight. (Personally I don’t have a problem with either of those but I imagine some might) Who’s with me on this? ---
**Author:** ![gtzaskar00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@gtzaskar00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gtzaskar00)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/7 "2001-10-02T19:09:12Z")
As well with Jingle Bell Rock, my absolute least favorite of all Christmas songs. I still don’t think I will ever get sick of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/8 "2001-10-02T19:19:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moggy \* > \*\*Penalty for playing “Jingle Bells”: being forced to listen to the all-dogs version of it, or Burl Ives singing “Holly Jolly Christmas”, whichever the person hates more, for 72 hours straight. (Personally I don’t have a problem with either of those but I imagine some might) > Who’s with me on this? \*\* Hey! I like Burl! I saw a Christmas-flavored TV ad for UPS on September 13. I wrote it on my calendar. I think that’s the earliest one I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/9 "2001-10-02T19:20:32Z")
And yet they never play the ones I like - “Still, Still, Still,” or “You’re All I Want For Christmas.” ☹ Plus this’ll be the first year I’m not home over Thanksgiving weekend when Mom breaks out Johnny Mathis’ Christmas album, gets the decorations out of the attic and starts baking cookies. ☹ Suddenly I feel the need to sing “I’ll Be Home For Christmas…” Esprix ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/10 "2001-10-02T19:32:23Z")
I suspect we won’t be hearing Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” this year. ☹ I suspect Christmas this year, and Hanukkah, too, will be a lot more serious and meaningful for a lot of people. Less emphasis on presents, more on love and family. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/11 "2001-10-02T19:37:57Z")
I haven’t seen the Christmas-flavored commercials yet, but Sears has their Christmas crap out already. Trees, ornaments, dancing Santa, lights…this was over the weekend. It wasn’t even October yet! \*\* > [@](#): > > Esprix said: > And yet they never play the ones I like - “Still, Still, Still,” or “You’re All I Want For Christmas.” \*\* I **love** “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Vince Vance & The Valiants. Is that the one you like? Long, mushy story behind that one. Maybe I’ll tell it one day. Shhh! [sub]We always get our tree out the day after Thanksgiving.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/12 "2001-10-02T19:39:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **Suddenly I feel the need to sing "I’ll Be Home For Christmas…"** That’s not funny, Esprix! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/13 "2001-10-02T19:45:46Z")
What gets me is that I’ve never met a single person who likes this. The stores insist that they do it because people want this, yet I’ve never met anyone who wanted it. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/14 "2001-10-02T19:51:06Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Kinsey** _ > > I **love** “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Vince Vance & The Valiants. Is that the one you like? Nope - completely different song. It’s more a close-harmony, 1940’s-style song. And, um, **Dragwyr** , it wasn’t meant to be funny. 😕 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/15 "2001-10-02T19:52:22Z")
Are we talking Eastern or Pacific? Gawd, have they no shame? ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/16 "2001-10-02T21:56:49Z")
Jeez, Dragwyr, if I’d known ranting about Premature Onset Christmas was standard on this board, I’d’ve written your rant back on **September 8**. Because that was the first day I saw Christmas stuff - ornaments and lights and so forth - up in a regular store. (A Sav-On.) 'Round here, they go straight from Back-to-School to Christmas, expanding Christmas to about fifteen aisles as soon as Halloween is out of the way. **I hate it.** When I saw the Little Dorky-but-Expensive Christmas Village Decorations in the drugstore, I recoiled in horror. Literally. I went “_eeep!_” and backed right into another shopper. She gave me a strange look, and I wanted to say: “Look, it’s sick enough that we live in a part of the country where there are three seasons: January, Summer, and Christmas. It’s sick enough that there are retailers who are apparently counting the days until Labor Day comes and they can put out the green and red wrapping paper. But when completely normal people accept this, and are not even alarmed, and in fact don’t understand why a fellow human being might _be_ alarmed to find Christmas products lying in wait when she goes to pick up her prescription on September 8, well, screw religion. We’re already in hell.” I did not say this, however, because my mouth went on strike to protest the earlification of Christmas. Damn. Well, I’m not going to stand for it anymore; this rant has just pushed me over the edge. All that is required for the triumph of Christmas is that good people do nothing about it COMING IN FUCKING SEPTEMBER. I will be silent no longer. Fetch me the permanent black marker, the black spray paint, and the napalm - the Anti-Santa is coming to town. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/17 "2001-10-02T22:47:51Z")
Sheesh. Christmas already? What happened to Halloween and Thanksgiving? Oh wait, no one spends money on those two days. ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/18 "2001-10-02T22:56:58Z")
I think it’s great that the most wonderful time of the year can last for four months now! Hey, if I start now, maybe I can get all my Christmas cards out before that nasty Halloween rush. I’m so hap-hap-happy! ---
**Author:** ![shell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@shell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shell)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/19 "2001-10-02T23:04:29Z")
Bah. Humbug. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019/20 "2001-10-02T23:15:19Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Saint Zero** _ > > What happened to Halloween and Thanksgiving? Oh wait, no one spends money on those two days. Obviously you’re not gay, as Halloween is the Gay National Holiday. 😉 Esprix [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-go-again-and-it-still-too-friggin-early-for-this/85019.md?page=2)