I just heard my first Christmas album ad of the season. Just thought I’d share in case anyone else was keeping track of when the Christmas season officially started.
I hate that. My mood gets fouler and fouler until that awful xmas day. I have been tracking that over that years and late September is about right.
Haj
We were in White Marsh Mall this morning and I heard “Silent Night” wafting out of some store… I wanted to weep…
Gosh, I remember when I first noticed the first Christmas display of the year, and it was November 11 – of 1992. So does this mean that Christmas will now begin around August 1 by 2012? Wouldn’t surprise me, really.
I was in Target Friday, and they were putting out Christmas decorations and lights for sale. I just cringed.
Oh sure. Orange Park, FL, eh?
YOU WERE IN THE MID-ATLANTIC!
And you didn’t stop by!
RT, Dave! Someone, anyone! My heart is breaking!
wow, that’s too bad.
though I agree that the Christmas season should not begin until AT LEAST after Halloween, and preferably around Nov. 15, I just don’t understand how anyone could not love Christmas (or the giving mid-winter holiday of their choice). Something about it remains magical to me, and that something has nothing to do with merchandise.
Fargo ND. About 5PM Sept. 22 Entered local Kmart. Christmas trees, lights decorations, stuffed Santas.
I heard three other people distinctly comment on how flipping early it was for this crap to start.
My wife mentioned all the people we still had to buy presents for.
Bastards.
This should really be in the Pit.
I personally deface all christmas ads before haloween.
I love perminant markers. 
The week before last I got my memo about the office Xmas party. Grocery stores around here have had the Halloween stuff out for about two weeks - how are they going to squeeze in Thanksgiving?
Muad’Dib walks about in the 100 degree (37.78 Celsius) California heat
“Oh it’s begining to look a lot like Christmas"
Eeeeevry where you go…”
How the fuck can you have XMAS shit out if we haven’t even had Halloween shit out yet? I thought if you did that you would break one of the immutable laws of physics therby causing the entire universe to collapse in on itself as a black hole.
For Chrissakes the fucking leaves haven’t even started to turn yet and I live in MAINE!!
There are these stickers they sell at this one site (I ferget the 'zat one, but I’ll get back ter ya on dat) that, they’re perdy big stickers too, they have this one housewife on heroic sillhouette (possibly with a bazooka), and it says “Boycot Christmas!”.
Yeah. They were pretty neat. If I ever see them again I’ll show them to you all.
My bookstore started to get Christmas crap in in June. Yes, June. Tons of it.
This is why I don’t celebrate Christmas anymore.
How 'bout I am a cultural Jew, a relgious atheist and my birthday is December 23rd and that’s just for starters. Don’t even get me started about how a minor Jewish festival has been forever perverted by the historical accident of an event happening around the Winter Solstice.
Haj
I was in Carlton’s in late August, and saw Halloween stuff out already. Then again, last week I was in the dollar store, and saw Chirstmas cards out. Starts way too early for me…
F_X
Hmmmm, how can I explain this? I had a weekend - just one weekend. I no longer live with my husband - this was our opportunity to be together. Now, I could spend the weekend with my husband fulfilling my spousal duties or I could stop by and see you. Let’s consider this carefully…
No Chance!!! Sorry. My visits are short and the limited hours have already been claimed. Now, if you happen to be at the Annapolis Sailboat Show on Friday, Oct 11, I’ll invite you to lunch with us, but beyond that, nothing personal, but I’d rather be with my sweetie. And I’m back in Orange Park again (rats)
Are you sure you didn’t want to weep just for being in the middle of White Marsh Mall?
[sub]I hate that mall.[/sub]
So Haj, you’d probably be miffed if this year I combined your birthday and Christmas gifts into one, right???
And of course I’d wrap it in red & green wrappings…
–scout “1222 for a reason”
Grr.