It Has Started - Or, Let the Holiday Madness Begin

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It Has Started - Or, Let the Holiday Madness Begin

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Browsing through the Sunday coupons this morning I see not one, not two, but THREE ads for Hoilday ornaments or figurines. It's September 29th and I'm seeing the first hints of the crazyness that surrounds the Holiday season.

It will only get worse from here. I fully expect to see the first Time-Life commercial for their Holiday music collection within the next two weeks. Fasten your seat belts -- It's gonna be a bumpy ride until January 8)
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Well, I don't know about you but I love the "holiday" season. Christmas is my most favorite time of the year. 8)
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we were at lowe's yesterday and they already had the artifical christmas trees out! stores seem to make christmas come earlier and earlier... soon the season of fall is going to turn into the season of christmas advertising
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The holiday season can get annoying - too damn crowded at all the stores.

Besides, when people are being stressed out about "having" to buy gifts for others, how is it "The most wonderful time of the year"?
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Luke wrote:Well, I don't know about you but I love the "holiday" season. Christmas is my most favorite time of the year. 8)
Oh I love it, too.
Just not in September :D

And trees already out in some stores? That's a bit extreme.
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It is hardly Halloween! i thought they didn't take the Christmas decorations out till Nov. 1 (day after Halloween).
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Yes,it's that time of year again,just a month eariler!

G'Day!
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Luke wrote:Well, I don't know about you but I love the "holiday" season. Christmas is my most favorite time of the year. 8)
(insert southern baptist tone): A-men brother!
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What happened to the days when the stores used to sell the holiday decorations in the month the holiday took place?

Just last month I saw the Christmas light displays near the Halloween costumes at Costco's...
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I heard that Target is selling some Enesco Christmas Ornaments.
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Leonia wrote:What happened to the days when the stores used to sell the holiday decorations in the month the holiday took place?

Just last month I saw the Christmas light displays near the Halloween costumes at Costco's...
Costco has been gradually putting out Christmas stuff since we were there and got Lizzie McGuire Movie-that was AUGUST 12!!!!! I love it!!!!! When my parents take my sister out for Hallowe'en, I stay home and watch Christmas movies! This year, it's the Santa Clause!
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To me I only like Thanksgiving and Christmas! I just pass over Halloween because I cannot stand it! It isn't even a holiday and it is just so stupid to me! I would rather have more Christmas stuff than anything so I am happy with it! I already started my HOliday Shopping! YOOHOO! :)
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Yeah, the commercialization and the earliness of the commercialization can have me rolling my eyes, but I just don't get caught up in it much. I think November 1 is a fine time to start playing Christmas songs and decorate the stores and all that. Before that, it's early. I personally don't really do any decorating or get in the spirit until the day after Thanksgiving. But then it's full force ahead...my Muppets and Peanuts Christmas CDs, etc., etc. :D
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Luke wrote:I think November 1 is a fine time to start playing Christmas songs ...
Funny you should mention that.
I love Christmas music...I mean I LOVE it. It's one of my favorite parts of all the Holiday Hub-bub. When I was in college I instituted my own Christmas music policy: Oct 1st through January 31st. That way I could at least get 1/3rd of a year's worth of the stuff.

Very extreme, I know. It annoyed the hell out of many a friend, college roommate and/or collegiate hottie. I finally came to my senses a year after graduation and scaled back to November 1st thru the end of the year.
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This time I can play my BATB The Echanted Christmas CD WOOHOO! I got it after Christmas last year! :(

NOW I CAN BLAST IT! :)
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Well, it's official-I just saw the first Christmas commercial! Well, technically, it was only the Michelen Tire Co's "We're your guardian angel this winter" commerical, but it has the Christmassy feel... :D

Anyway, like I said, when my parents take my sister out for trick-or-treating this Hallowe'en, my line-up consists of:

1. The Santa Clause (soo funny.....)
2. Charlie Brown Christmas (how couldn't I?)
3. Garfield Christmas (love that cat...)
4. Jiminy Cricket's Christmas (really like it, and haven't watched it in a few months, so i'll give it a turn)

Now keep in mind that I've been watching these since March (I take a four month break after December), but Oct 31 is the last day that I watch them "illegally"!
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One of the local radio stations in the Washington DC area starts playing Christmas pop / soft rock songs the day after Thanksgiving.
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Prince Adam wrote:Well, it's official-I just saw the first Christmas commercial! Well, technically, it was only the Michelen Tire Co's "We're your guardian angel this winter" commerical, but it has the Christmassy feel... :D
So it's not just the Hong Kong stations on my cable...

In case you didn't get that--I have Time Warner Cable so my folks can watch the Asian/International channels. And there's this commercial that plays the Nutcracker's "Waltz of the Flowers" that's been running since around April till now.
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Luke wrote::lol:
Stop using up the friggin badawidth! :x
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