Comments on: Christmas in November

By: Carbzilla

Carbzilla — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:23:04 +0000

I’ve just given in. I even listened to a carole the other day on ITunes (Where are you, Christmas? by Faith Hill. Gets me every time). In fact, I’m shipping off gifts today and enjoying the Christmas light-adorned houses on my drives home these days (I appreciate the fact they went up right around the time that daylight savings time ended – we needed something to perk up the gloom).

I need a little cheery up – did you hear I lost my hard drive? Here’s my personal reminder to back up all your hard work!

Spreading Holiday Cheer ….

By: Dilliah

Dilliah — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:35:08 +0000

I’m sorry, but it amuses me how worked up people get over Christmas decorations. Seeing some fake trees and Santa figurines is all it takes to get people upset now? I think THAT says more about our culture than the fact that stores sell some silly merchandise early.

By: Tabby

Tabby — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:34:21 +0000

Okay, it’s been awhile since I’ve lived near or visited a Kroger, but since when did they start having holiday decor? That just seems wrong. LOL

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:57:45 +0000

Grocery stores are about the only place that might benefit financially from giving full time and space to Thanksgiving. Really.

By: susan

susan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:22:57 +0000

Ugh. I had to listen to “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas” today while I bought groceries. Why must food outlets pipe this mind-numbing music so early? Thankfully, the store I was at hadn’t gotten to the visual Christmas blodgeoning…yet.

By: KateG

KateG — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:16:27 +0000

The worst example of this: a couple of years ago I went to a large outlet mall on the saturday before Halloween. They were letting the kids trick-or-treat in the stores. And the sound system was playing Christmas carols. Ugh.

For me the Christmas season still starts the day after Thanksgiving.

By: bobbie

bobbie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:12:44 +0000

…and this is how I end up eating candy corn in early September. I wish the stores would wait until at least 30 days prior to a holiday to start with all this nonsense. Grrrr and humbug.

By: Fin

Fin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:03:41 +0000

Whatever happenend to the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas? In the olden days of yore, people didn’t put up their trees until Christmas Eve and would take them down on Three Kings Day/Epiphany. These days it’s more like 180 days of Christmas.

By: Fin

Fin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:08 +0000

It’s these retail shenanigans that make me despise the holiday season. I still want to enjoy fall without having christmas trees and santa clauses leering at me.

By: jennifer rose

jennifer rose — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:20 +0000

Here in central Mexico, Christmas stuff has been in the stores aisles since the first week of August. And only yesterday I put up a pink Christmas tree.