There’s eggnog for sale in the grocery stores. It actually appeared before Canadian Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago.
Ho, ho, ho! 
Yep. At my local supermarket, all the Hallowe’en candy is reduced in price, and Christmas candy is appearing. Many TV commercials have some sort of Christmas theme (Canadian Tire, but a few others). It seems rather early to me, but I guess not to retailers.
I was tuning around the radio this weekend and found ‘the Christmas channel’ well underway.
The format switches to all Christmas music, resuming its regular branding and Soft AC sound on December 26. It is traditionally one of the earlier stations to adopt an all-Christmas format, traditionally doing so between November 2 and November 6
You can start as early as you like, but please let me enjoy Christmas during actual Christmas (that is, until Epiphany) and do not take away all the Christmas decorations and music before the holiday has properly started.
Cracker Barrel put out their Christmas stuff in July or August. Lowe’s has had their giant inflatable Christmas lawn things for at least a month. And a couple weeks ago I saw an ad on TV for artificial trees. I haven’t even bought my Thanksgiving turkey yet!!!
So by that logic, I should be telling everyone that my birthday is in January - hint, hint.
Jennifer Hudson is out there shrieking for Old Navy.
On Nov 1 I saw someone in my neighborhood had put up some Christmas decorations. I wanted to knock them over.
I saw advent calendars for sale in Shoppers Drug Mart a couple of weeks ago.
My wife tried playing some Christmas music while we were on a hike this weekend, but I vetoed that.
To be fair, advent calendars are required 3 1/2 weeks before Christmas.
The magic has been removed from Christmas by starting everything so early. When I was a kid we didn’t get our tree until the middle of December.
Hobby Lobby had their Christmas stuff out in July. On Oct 29, Walmart had pushed all of the Halloween candy into one aisle and had the Christmas candy take over multiple aisles. Sam’s Club had their giant yard Christmas decorations displayed with the Halloween skeletons, etc. in September.
Let me celebrate Thanksgiving then bring on Christmas!
Confessions!
I love National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and have an uncharacteristically high tolerance for watching it repeatedly. I, um, already watched some (only parts!) between football games on Sunday.
I also love the “Warm Season Greetings to You, All from Menaaards!” chorus.
I saw a Christmas-themed BMW commercial this morning.
The wife bought a jug of eggnog yesterday, which we’ll end up throwing out in a couple of weeks, as usual. Honestly, it’s like taking a five-year old shopping. I’ve gotten quite militant about her impulse buying. We got a Christmas flyer from Costco last week, although the sale doesn’t actually start until the end of November.
Is anyone else seeing the Christmas Shirt ad right above jnglmassiv’s post?
I love Thanksgiving. It is a holiday about family, food, fun at my house. No pressure for gifts. It makes me so mad that they literally just steal this holiday from us. Halloween to Christmas. .
There you go! I’m going to start a club!
Each year I channel my inner (well, not very inner) Grinch and gripe, bitch, and bemoan the amount of cultural bandwith Christmas seems to ever more be dominating. This year I went to my local everything store on Oct. 29th to pick up some Halloween candy for my students and surprise! (not really) most of it had been pulled from the shelves only to be replaced with Christmas kitsch. Puke.
However… this past weekend i just gave in. I programmed the SiriusXM radio in my car to stream a few Christmas music channels and started my Christmas shopping. I don’t even have my Thanksgiving turkey yet and here I am with Christmas presents already squirreled away in my garage.
The Crazy Christian Cash Register season finally broke me.
Walmart starts putting out their fake trees in mid-September.
More recent stuff. I found myself at a dollar store on Halloween. It didn’t dawn on me to check what sort of Halloween deals they had until I walked in. Xmas stuff all over. No Halloween stuff at all. On Halloween.
Grocery shopping yesterday I was stumped trying to find some stuff based on the “normal” look of the packaging. Turned out they had Xmas themed packaging on some things. E.g., Corn Chex had a Charlie Brown Xmas thing on it. Whole different color and style box.
I live in Oklahoma so no matter what else happens the season hasn’t started until I hear the BC Clark Christmas jingle!