I just can’t believe what I saw last night. It’s still September and I saw a commercial for a Christmas CD! It’s not even Halloween yet!
There should, in my humble but correct opinion, be no Christmas commercials until AFTER Thanksgiving. No wonder I never get in the christmas spirit until Dec 24. Life as I know it is officially over.
There should be no Christmas commercials at all, ever, and Rudolf and all the rest of the freakin’ reindeer should be dressed off, butchered, roasted, and used to feed the pagan celebration of No Event In Paticular.
And that porky pedophile in the red suit can walk to the Unemployment Office. The excersize’ll do him good. 
Generosity should be a year 'round thing, seems to me.
I saw a small section of our local Nieman-Marcus store already is decorated for christmas!
This was 2 weeks ago actually.
Eventually, I’m guessing Christmas will start right after the 4th of July.
You’re all a bunch of Grinches.
Yabbut, the point is that when this freakin’ Christmasmania sets in the day after Labor Day, we lose out on the intervening seasons. Same for Halloween fever – Jeez Louise, it’s not even October yet! How about letting us enjoy September first? Remember when Thanksgiving had a feeling all its own, instead of just being a prequel to Christmas? Remember when the day after Thanksgiving was the big kickoff day of the shopping season?
Remember when Christmas was a warm fuzzy religious holiday in late December, and not a fake overcommercialized competitive-consumption cheap-tasteless-overblown-decorations buy-this-make-that family-guilt-trip junky-useless-crap-just-to-give-something (or worse, take-out-a-second-mortgage-to-buy-unnecessarily-expensive-and-showy-gifts-that-no-one-needs) horrid-Christmas-Muzak-everywhere Madison-Avenue-encouraging-greedy-children four-month nightmare shoved down our throats as soon as the kids went back to school?
If wishing for a return to “each holiday in its own good time” makes me a Grinch, well then pass the Who Hash. Harrumph.
Not at all. We just don’t like the commercialization of of a holiday that is supposed to be a season of peace and goodwill.
Advertisers keep pushing the supposed Christmas season earlier and earlier just so they can make a buck. Just spend more of your money earlier and earlier. Nevermind the real reason for Christmas! (Does anybody know the real reaon for Christmas? Anybody? I’ll give you a hint… It’s not presents!)
Well I’m not going to get on that band wagon… and if that makes me a Grinch, so be it.
Scarlett67,
Well said! We are on the same wavelength.
I enjoy the Christmas holiday season. The anticipation of family gatherings, the joy of buying and giving gifts, the lights, the decorations, and everyone (well, almost everyone) seems to be in the holiday spirit. In short, Christmas and the Christmas season, is a special time of the year.
But I agree with the previous posts…the Christmas season should start after Thanksgiving.
Each holiday has its own meaning and its own “feel” (for lack of a better word). Christmas has a different “feel” than Thanksgiving, which is different than Halloween. And I want to be able to enjoy each holiday season and the joy and anticipation of each holiday. I want to buy my Halloween candy without passing rows of Christmas decorations.
Then he growled, with his grinch fingers nervously drumming,
“I MUST find a way to keep Christmas from coming!”
From the “Simpsons” episode, Trash of the Titans:
Manager: Okay, people. We need to cook up a new holiday for the summer. Something with, eh, gifts, cards, assorted gougeables.
Woman: How about something religious? We had great penetration last spring with “Christmas II”!
Man: Ooh, I know, Spendover, like Passover but less talk, more presents!
**Gary Kumquat wrote:
You’re all a bunch of Grinches.**
Thanks for the compliment, Gary! That’s exactly what I’d like to do, steal all the damn over-hyped, over-priced, over-commercialized aspects of the Holiday season and throw them off a cliff. Where’s the nearest bottomless pit?
C’mon Scarlett67, Dragwyr & RonA! Help me throw this commerical crap over the edge!
i worked at a mall for two Chrismases, and the minute halloween was over, UP went all of the deorations, and the shrill music was played until january.
this did not do anything for my “christmas spirit”, it only succeded in annoying and irritating me.
and i too wish that chrismas was not dumped on us like a truckload of bricks. i saw no reason to play christmas carols when there wasn’t even snow on the ground yet, before thanksgivng dinner had even been thought of.
DNFTG
Last year, I took a late vacation and went to London for the first week in December. It wasn’t until the last day that I saw one (count ‘em, ONE) shop with lights and Christmas decorations. It was great. If I ever don’t have to work, I’m going to England from Thanksgiving to New Year’s every year.
Scarlett67, thanks for the quote. I’m adding it to my sig file. I used to like Christmas until my brother had children and my parents lost their minds.
I am a certifiable Grinch.
If we didn’t have kids Lola and I could just skip the overcommercialized, hype laden, money sucking event all together. Pretty soon a trip to the mall will start to induce homicidal urges. I HATE IT!
Okay, we’d still have lots of turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy… mmmmmmmm… gravy…
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that Christmas is way too commercialized. You all have made my day!
The official opening of Tacky Lawn Decoration Season in the Jersey suburbs. Already the cardboard witches and ghosts are out, and stupid little pumpkin lights up and down the walks. Oh, and clever signs reading, “boo!” This will go on straight and uninterrupted through the spring:
• Thanksgiving (cutesy cardboard pilgrims and turkeys, fake bundles of hay and “harvest”).
• Xmas (big plastic Santas and reindeer; glowing holy families, Frosties, and the occasional elf or chorister).
• New Year gets pretty much ignored, for some reason.
• Right into: Valentine’s day! Big ol’ hearts and cupies all over the place.
• Segue into St. Paddy’s, with the accompanying leprechauns and four-leaf clovers.
• And the big finale: Easter! Bunnies, eggs, chickies (I’d like to believe I live in a pagan neighborhood, but most of these people have no idea what these symbols really mean).
Wonder if I’ll have the same problem I did two years ago? Awful Xmas Muzak blared over loudspeakers all over town for the entire goddam month of December? We were spared last year (I hope because of my letter-writing campaign).
Happy goddam holidays, y’all. Jeez, makes me wish I could drink.
Watch it Gary… someone might come along bitching about all the “Grinch Hunting” going on here.
I can probably predict the IP number too.