# Will this never end? Seven more days of Xmas! Groan

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-never-end-seven-more-days-of-xmas-groan/976770 "2022-12-19T05:05:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-never-end-seven-more-days-of-xmas-groan/976770/21 "2022-12-21T02:40:16Z")

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Basically I ignore it all. Yes, I get too many catalogs, but I recycle them. And I mostly enjoy the Christmas music on CBC. But the big thing is that we neither give nor receive gifts. And gift giving seems to be the main source of anxiety during the season (which, in Canada, starts no later than Halloween). We get a small number of cards (three this year), but since we never send any, we drop off the mailing lists. So it really doen’t bother me.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-never-end-seven-more-days-of-xmas-groan/976770/22 "2022-12-21T02:44:05Z")

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_Five gold rings!_

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-never-end-seven-more-days-of-xmas-groan/976770/23 "2022-12-21T05:33:11Z")

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I try to ignore it, I really do. I try not to watch television, but I want to see the news, and there it is. If I read the news instead, there it is. It feels inescapable, more so the closer the actual day comes.

Well, it’s down to five days now. I guess I can make it to the end somehow.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-never-end-seven-more-days-of-xmas-groan/976770/24 "2022-12-21T06:05:57Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> even the classical music station gets “in the spirit” during the last week or so with semi-classical style renditions of carols and other crud of that sort.

I have two stations set on my car radio – classical and country. (I used to have three, but the local oldies station changed to modern rock a few years back.) When one station starts playing an Xmas song I switch to the other. The first time I switch from one Xmas song to another, I turn the radio off and don’t turn it back on until mid-January.

> [@JaneDoe42](#):
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> the workplace Xmas stuff

One year the manager turned off the piped-in music in the store because on 7 January they still hadn’t switched back from Xmas tunes to the normal elevator music.

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