well, Christmas stuff is in stores now.(has been for about a week) wonder how long it will be before forth of july gets pre-empted by this. absolutely ridiculous. remember when it started the day after thanksgiving? it makes me so mad.

Sounds like you could use a dog.

I remember the crazy anticipation of waiting and waiting for the Christmas trees and decorations and downtown lights that turned on the day after Thanksgiving. It was so special... and waiting for the Sears and Penny's toy catalogs to show up was really huge!

Now it's like... is it over yet? Truely sad.

ah you old fogies christmas is AWESOME!

Our locals Tesco's had their Christmas range on the shelves for over a month now! I swear it's getting earler and earlier.

Each year the Xmas goods go on sale earlier and earlier and each year the stores report that they're not making as much profit as the year before. Soon the Xmas sales will start in july, the January sales will start in September and Easter Eggs will hit the shelves in December, although why they don't sell Easter Eggs all year round is beyond me i'd happily buy them yum.

fuck christmas

Bloody Grinches,i started buying this years pressies in January

Bloody Scrooge... January sales huh

Every year i buy the extended families pressies in January mate.

7 P's

I guess is more for the young who want presents, and for the older generations who want to see all their kids, grandkids again.

To be fair christmas could be just what we need in a recession. More money spent is more money into the economy

It's not the marketing that bugs me so much as the songs. I am not looking forward to hearing Christmas songs in every store I go in for the next two months.

The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

I love Christmas.

That and The Worms are two of my favourites, Fairy Tale in New York for Christmas and the worms for the Halloween recital as a kid lol.

Them with Kirsty will no doubt be an Xmas classic for another 20 years.

The christmas songs are part of the fun! They get a bit tiresome but cant go wrong with the pogues lol

really does not bother me.

you could always become a Jehovah's witness.

christmas is for the kids. quit bitchin! >=/


xD

no!! I like to bitch, it's fun.

besides, I love Christmas... I just don't like that they start the merchandising of it so early. I wish they waited till Thanksgiving like they used too.

ah, the younguns don't remember how it used to be.

Remember the tingle you got after Thanksgiving when every store and street started putting up Christmas decorations? Remember the sense of excitement? I love Christmas , I just hate the over commercialization.


On favorite Christmas songs
Bowie and Bing

It's always Christmas in Heaven...