Christmas season has arrived

In my house, Christmas is not about decorations or parties. It starts when my wife puts on Christmas music and starts making fruitcake and sugared peanuts. 

Christmas arrived today! 

I am a staunch post-Thanksgiving Christmas celebrator. No tree, no music, no nothing until after Thanksgiving. 

Same reason I hate brunch so much - there's two other perfectly good meals that are getting steamrolled by what's commercially popular. On the plus side, all my slacker millennial peers get up so late only to wait an hour in line for brunch, so all the hip new brunch places have zero wait during normal breakfast hours AKA before 10am. 

So berkeley brunch, it's a stupid meal. Sorry, what were we talking about?

If you work in retail, it's been here since August. 

In reply to SVreX :

Fa-la-la-la-la

I used to hate the Xmas season until I lived in Saudi. Now? I am already playing Xmas music, and you can bet I'll be celebrating Festivus in style this year. 

We have "major" issues at the new house. We don't have any outlets on the outside of the front of the house to hang Christmas lights. My wife loves Christmas and decorating more than me. 

Appleseed said:

If you work in retail, it's been here since August. 

I went to BBB the other day which is a special version of hell.  Now all the xmas stuff is out.  I couldn't comprehend the 6000 options for bedsheets but the tiny aisles were so crowded there wasn't enough room to lay down and cry.

There's a cable channel (Hallmark?) that's been showing Christmas movies 24 hrs/day since the week before Halloween.  I didn't know that many were made!

Everybody can enjoy the winter festivities however they want to best do so.

I'm in the "nothing until after thanksgiving" camp.

I'm fairly certain Target/Walmart had a few Christmas decorations out since Halloween.

Home Depot and Sams Club have had E36 M3 out since August this year. I'm in the December 21 to 28 camp personally. 5 Christmases working in a mall in my later teens early 20s has left me with a great hatred and contempt of the holiday season that seems to get longer and more annoying every year. 

Michael's had their Christmas stuff out July 5th.

RevRico said:

Home Depot and Sams Club have had E36 M3 out since August this year. I'm in the December 21 to 28 camp personally. 5 Christmases working in a mall in my later teens early 20s has left me with a great hatred and contempt of the holiday season that seems to get longer and more annoying every year. 

I worked in Layaway at Walmart while still in highschool. I've long hated the xmas season, but not anymore. 

Brett_Murphy said:

Everybody can enjoy the winter festivities however they want to best do so.

I'm in the "nothing until after thanksgiving" camp.

+Million for me!

I'm in the no music or tree until after thanksgiving camp but my fiance has been baking and frosting cookies. We also got almost 8" of snow on Halloween so it's basically Christmas now.

maschinenbau said:

I am a staunch post-Thanksgiving Christmas celebrator. No tree, no music, no nothing until after Thanksgiving. 

Same reason I hate brunch so much - there's two other perfectly good meals that are getting steamrolled by what's commercially popular. On the plus side, all my slacker millennial peers get up so late only to wait an hour in line for brunch, so all the hip new brunch places have zero wait during normal breakfast hours AKA before 10am. 

So berkeley brunch, it's a stupid meal. Sorry, what were we talking about?

Brunch is a great meal. You sleep later and you can get away with only eating 2 meals a day, thus cutting your food bill by 1/3.

On topic....  My kids seem to think that only Halloween and Christmas exist as holidays. They're counting down until Dec 1st which is the earliest I'll let a tree into the house.

I worked retail for a number of years and find myself missing the craziness around Christmas time. 

For us, we're usually so busy with work and stuff, we rarely even put up a tree.  Kinda sad, but it's less to take down come January....

-Rob 

These days, it seems like everywhere/one bypasses Thanksgiving, just for Black Friday "sales" and Christmas decorations.

Personally, Thanksgiving > Christmas because food.

Nothing before November 11th please.

Christmas is for December. I share FuzzWuzzy sentiment on liking Thanksgiving better than Christmas. 

We haven't put a tree, and won't, in the new house. Between the cat and 3 dogs, I suspect it would last 1-2 days before having been knocked over so many times that all ornaments would be smashed and the limbs broken.

I love the festiveness. Mostly. Can't stand the music though. Something about my mom playing her 3 cd Christmas collection from the middle of October until the middle of February, non stop, every damn year. Planning a trip to disney next month for anniversary/her birthday because we LOVE the atmosphere during the Christmas season. Just a little extra magic.

Santa Claus made his first appearance yesterday at the Mall of America.  

914Driver said:

There's a cable channel (Hallmark?) that's been showing Christmas movies 24 hrs/day since the week before Halloween.  I didn't know that many were made!

I actually worked for one as dumb muscle for $300 years ago, though they refused to pay at first and had to be threatened with legal action from the agency who did their setup.

They *literally* have a bulleted list made of cliche's and bits to construct a whole script from, and each year it becomes more automated. The woman for Hallmark who makes these I got to meet by accident- she talks like a lawyer on the bench at all times. It's so plastic and corporate you'd think it was satire.

I also had to watch the director unsuccessfully hit on a bank teller, then had to be in his Matrix while he grew slightly despondent and nearly crashed us both because he refused to stop and eat. Good times.

z31maniac said:

We haven't put a tree, and won't

This is likely me this year.

I honestly could give zero berks about presents, decorations, and any religious aspect of it.  I like spending time with family and friends, I like time off work, I like good food.

I prefer the holiday of thanksgiving, but the extra week off around xmas makes it more appealing.

914Driver said:

There's a cable channel (Hallmark?) that's been showing Christmas movies 24 hrs/day since the week before Halloween.  I didn't know that many were made!

My wife has been watching them since then. She also watched them all month in July. I don’t even watch tv & I recognize most of their E36 M3ty movies now just from passing through the front room while they’re on. 

Edit: oh and bah humbug!