Merry Christmas?

[MrsSmeej]

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There is still a week (and some) before Thanksgiving Day...
I've just thrown my pumpkin from All Hallows Eve away;
Yet, I'm seeing Christmas decorations in the stores.
Some folks have already hung their wreaths upon their doors.

There are ads with Santa Claus; I'm hearing jingle bells.
Christmas-time too early is like 7 kinds of hells.
It's no wonder that the Grinch despised the very thought;
Advertisers make you think that happiness is bought.

Thus, they start the drumming earlier so you will shop;
Best thing about Christmas Day is that the drumbeats stop.
We're exchanging home-made gifts in my large family.
This year we'll be putting thought beneath the Christmas tree.​

 

[fushingfeef]

Yeah I turned on the radio this morning and my favorite oldies station had already turned over to Christmas carols...usually they wait until the day after Thanksgiving. Bah, humbug!

 

[Spideyman]

What happened to the official start of christmas being Santa's arrival after the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day parade???
Love the idea of hand made gifts. Special meanings for all.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Around here...after summer days when the sun did not set until 10:30 pm...and you have to wait forever for the fireworks to begin...around this time of year when that old SADness begins to gnaw at the bone...passing by a brightly decorated house makes up for the lack of sunshine.

 

[Jojo87]

Last week when I went to my favorite supermarket in our city, they had put up all Christmas decoration and
played Christmas carols. That made me smile cause it's still couple of week until it's December. Almost every supermarket
and smaller stores we have in our town have put up their Christmas decoration. But last month around Halloween when I went
to another Supermarket, they had Halloween decorations and Christmas decoration next to each other. So I got the feeling
that you can choose for yourself what holiday you want to celebrate, Halloween or Christmas.

 

[Neesy]

We have our Thanksgiving in October up here in Canada. I did start to see Christmas decorations up (at the stores) the weekend before November 11th. I was thinking - can't they at least wait until after such a solemn occasion before displaying all the festive decorations?

 

[jacobtlong]

People need to slow the heck down with this stuff. The darn turkey isn't even thawed yet and folks are talking about Christmas? Bah!

 

[Neesy]

People need to slow the heck down with this stuff. The darn turkey isn't even thawed yet and folks are talking about Christmas? Bah!

Scrooge McDuck - Bah Humbug!

 

[Neesy]

There is still a week (and some) before Thanksgiving Day...
I've just thrown my pumpkin from All Hallows Eve away;
Yet, I'm seeing Christmas decorations in the stores.
Some folks have already hung their wreaths upon their doors.

There are ads with Santa Claus; I'm hearing jingle bells.
Christmas-time too early is like 7 kinds of hells.
It's no wonder that the Grinch despised the very thought;
Advertisers make you think that happiness is bought.

Thus, they start the drumming earlier so you will shop;
Best thing about Christmas Day is that the drumbeats stop.
We're exchanging home-made gifts in my large family.
This year we'll be putting thought beneath the Christmas tree.​

 

[SharonC]

I love Christmas. I always have and I think I always will, but I don't like being forced into thinking about it at Halloween.
Christmas season officially begins for me on December 1. That's when I start my planning, shopping and getting decorations ready.

 

[kingzeppelin]

 

[Bevee-from-the-Levee]

Scrooge McDuck - Bah Humbug!

This is the "DIckens" of a good ale guaranteed to give anyone the spirit of Christmas!

 

[arista]

I am just saying we need to slow the heck down....People need to take a minute for Thanksgiving.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I agree wholeheartedly Arista...this whole retail push to "get ahead' is like being in some kind of never-ending bad joke...swimsuits in December...Bunnies in February...and Squanto bringing the gift of a Chia Pet to the Pilgrims.....Gaaahhhh!....

 

[FlakeNoir]

...I agree wholeheartedly Arista...this whole retail push to "get ahead' is like being in some kind of never-ending bad joke...swimsuits in December...Bunnies in February...and Squanto bringing the gift of a Chia Pet to the Pilgrims.....Gaaahhhh!....

I always wear a swimsuit in December.

 

[jacobtlong]

Swimsuits should be a year-round thing...

 

[FlakeNoir]

Swimsuits should be a year-round thing...

 

[Autumn Gust]

I try hard not to be stampeded through the year by all the commercial hype. Having said that, I stood in line to buy tickets to a December holiday play on a sweltering day in early September because all the performances would be sold out the next day.
A radio station here started playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. Life's short enough as it is… why rush through it?!

 

[Spideyman]

I always wear a swimsuit in December.

So do people in Florida!

 

[skimom2]

I always wear a swimsuit in December.

Lucky you. My mate in Perth always sends me a Christmas Day beach picture, and I send her a picture of our (usual) two or three feet of snow