# It's too goddamn early for Christmas commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175 "2010-11-02T04:08:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/81 "2014-09-14T17:00:49Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > I know they typically start the day after Halloween, but I submit that it’s still too early. Actually, I’ll fix that for ya: they start the day after Labor Day. At least in some stores here in Houston, they do. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/82 "2014-09-14T18:01:04Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I want to wait to put up our decorations until two weeks before Christmas, this year. Since I leave them up till New Years Eve, three weeks just seems like plenty. > > Husband disagrees. He wants them to go up right after Thanksgiving. Hmmmm. Is your husband putting up the decorations? All of them? If so, I’d let him. BTW, yesterday I saw a boy point at an evergreen and yell, “Hey, a Christmas tree!” The boy next to him said, in all seriousness, “That would fit in my doghouse.” The tree was about twenty-five feet tall. What kind of dog does he have, a giraffe/Great Dane cross? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/83 "2014-09-14T19:38:50Z")
I was in Sam’s Club yesterday. They had the Chinese Christmas Crap ™ on display–LED lights with inadequate AC to DC filtering–nothing like not-very-subtle 60-cycle strobe effects. _If one goes out, they ALL go out— **WHY ARE THEY BLINKING???** _ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/84 "2014-09-15T18:15:52Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > …The boy next to him said, in all seriousness, “That would fit in my doghouse.” The tree was about twenty-five feet tall. What kind of dog does he have, a giraffe/Great Dane cross? _Whatever_ kind it is, I ain’t pickin’ up its poop. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/85 "2015-11-06T20:31:17Z")
Bumped. WFHM 95.5 FM here in NE Ohio has gone to an all-Christmas-music format for the duration. Less than a week after freakin’ Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/86 "2015-11-06T20:58:36Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > And the first salvo in The War on Christmas[sup]TM[/sup] has been shot. > > Quick! Call Bill O’Reilly. He needs to know about this. [The lunatic right is outraged that Starbucks cups are red.](http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/05/war-on-christmas-starbucks-new-red-cups-are-emblematic-of-the-christian-culture-cleansing-of-the-west/) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/87 "2015-11-06T21:48:15Z")
The Halloween candy was completely replaced by Christmas candy overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/88 "2015-11-09T14:57:14Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > I’ve just started calling the period between halloween and new year’s day the year-end holiday season to be done with it. I know an author who refers to the time period between Halloween and, I think, President’s Day as PGDFF (pronounced “pig-duff”). This stands for Pretty God-Damned Fucking Festive. So Merry PGDFF, every one. I’m going to be in the quiet corner with rock music playing through my earbuds until about January 7[sup]th[/sup]. Just don’t take my eggnog away. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/89 "2015-11-09T17:16:04Z")
I was in Michael’s the other day and they were playing “We need a little Christmas right this very minute…” Me: “No, we don’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/90 "2015-11-09T18:33:32Z")
My ex-husband was so anti Christmas, that I dreaded Christmas time every year. It made me hate Christmas and I still do, even 8 years after the divorce. I cringe when I see the decorations and hear the music. Starting everything so early just lengthens a horrible time of year. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175/91 "2015-11-09T19:52:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > WFHM 95.5 FM here in NE Ohio has gone to an all-Christmas-music format for the duration. Less than a week after freakin’ Halloween! Lite Rock 99.3 here in Orlando stopped being lite rock the \*day \*after Halloween. I can deal with all the snow songs now that I can laugh at them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175.md?page=4)