Why are they playing Christmas songs NOW???

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Thanksgiving hasn't even come and gone yet and I am hearing Christmas music all over the place. Not just one song out of maybe 10 or 20, but every song - back to back - is Christmas songs.
Its just a little annouying.

Maybe I'm being a grinch, but I like it when the holiday approaches and hearing Christmas type stuff but after Thanksgiving.

Maybe a few days before is sort of ok... but it is still annouying.

Holly Jolly Christmas is just a little too soon.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey don't get upset now...but some people i know even got their Xmas Tree decorated...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ah ...the tactic's of marketeers. Dont'cha just love mid-November, and the silly season?

Not!
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was gobsmacked 6 weeks ago...a local store was already decked out with Chrissy paraphenalia.

And the more commercial it gets, the earlier it will come out....in years to come it'll be around June or July.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This earliness sometimes makes me wish I was born in June, so I could celebrate my birthday without Jingle Bells in the background.

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
in years to come it'll be around June or July


Eventually both Australia and Canada and the whole world will enjoy Xmas in summer!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
[scorpio-logic]
This earliness sometimes makes me wish I was born in June, so I could celebrate my birthday without Jingle Bells in the background


I was quite the opposite as a kid....Christmas was the only time I saw cake....you know, chuck a few candles on....
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
as i sit here in my livingroom with lights on the plant in front of my desk and the little vilage is glowing on top of the entertainment center while tigger and the snowman, sitting ready to play thier joyful christmas ditties, are being looked over by the halloween/thanksgiving scarecrow. all i can say is...

its futile to resist...

complaining won't work...

some people just like to do thier decorating early so they can get it over with.

some stores want to have things set up so the "black friday" shoppers can lay thier plans...

do the silly culprits care if they have ruind the whole compleat holiday season for some of us?

do they even think about the ones that do not see things like they do?

as i watched my wife pick out a costume for halloween and noticed she was humming jingelbells it became clear that these people have an illness. they are sick with a desease of the hollyday spirite and, that spirit, is posessed, by a corruption of greed, some need more money, some need more happiness. what we need is a way to correct the wrong that has aflicted them.

i have thought about this but i have no answer for this question. any help that can be given would be seen with a greatful heart
these are the things that put the nick in my blade...

thanks

NICK
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...I don't get having a christmas tree up before thanksgiving...

They got those things they hang over the street on some areas where i live. Had them up since freakin Early November.

I wonder if the holiday season will soon become part of Holloween?

Think about it. Holloween is so close to Thanksgiving and with Black Friday, Christmas and New Years... its just one big holiday bash.



I now call it HollowThanksChristNewYear.

Happy hollowthankschristitsovernewyear!!!!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How is this for creepy. 2 years ago I was being harrassed by the IRS at Xmas time. Since then Xmas music has a eerie haunting feel to it now. Xmas music now feels like halloween music to me.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why are they playing Christmas songs NOW???
Cuz, there aren't a lot of Thanksgiving songs? And Turkey in the Straw on auto-repeat gets real old real fast
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like Christmas. It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Side note. I also like this blind that I'm using called JosephsArt. I changed the color to orange in Windowblinds, so right now I'm typing orange letters onto an extremely dark gray background. It's awesome!!!

Back to Christmas. I heard the bells on Christmas day, their old familiar carols played, and wild and sweet the words repeat of "Peace on Earth, Good will toward men"

Then singing, ringing, more loud and deep. God is not dead nor does He sleep. The wrong shall fail, the right prevail for Peace on earth, Good will to men.



I like Christmas. All year long.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Starkers: you got me there. My childhood Christmas was always a good time of year, ESPECIALLY with my birthday days before Thanksgiving.

Since I lived in Germany, the celebrations started more near Halloween, which is a little different from here in the states. They begin in October, with the world reknowned "Oktoberfest". During October, the Germans celebrated some 6 other special days, which I partook of living in a small burg. Of course, to the American in Germany it seems like Oktoberfest goes from October to February...

So, then there's Halloween, which is celebrated. Then there's Erntdankfest, the German "Thanksgiving Day", in November. Fasching also began in November (the 11th day, 11th hour, 11th minute). Grand parades seem to be the norm. The women get a special day during the Fasching celebrations, Weiberfastnacht, which they get to do what the heck ever they want with no consequences. Of course, there's my B-day...not all germans celebrated with me, however.

December comes along, pretty quickly with all this celebrating gooing on, and the Twelfth Night, which is when St. Peter and his minions go about and make sure the villages' children are behaving, and Kris Kringle does his visiting.

Weinnachten comes around and we all exchange our gifts...soon thereafter its January 1st. I don't know of a country that does not celebrate a new year with as much fervor as the Deutchlander.

So the whole winter season is jam packed with celebration. Here in the states, makes me miss that time I lived in Germany, my birthdays seemed to fit in with the rest of the seasonal holidays.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It amazes me how old some of the songs are. This one originated almost 1000 years ago (in Latin, 12th century) and the music is almost as old - 13th century.

O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hollowthankschristitsovernewyear!!!!


Hey nick, just curious, but is that an insincere thank you to someone named Chris....and your New Years Resolution?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was in a barber shop about two and a half weeks ago, it was a 70 degree day and they had on a local radio station which had already started playing Christmas music 24/7!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No ale, no ale.
No beer, no stout.
So sorry to say,
This pub has run out.
No ale, no ale
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like Christmas. All year long.



Me too... I just don't like pretending that Christmas all year long means play the XMAS songs 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and then 3 weeks after New Years Day...

If its so great, then why won't these stores play those songs in July? LOL

Why are they playing Christmas songs NOW???
Cuz, there aren't a lot of Thanksgiving songs?








I think it was always a plot from the beginning o have Christmas take over. The non-existance of Thanksgiving songs on proves my point.

Evil is afoot!!!! Since Jafo is not here and won't be back until Monday, I feel I can blaim him for this while he is not here to defend himself.

Jafo, your loosing you good form mate! Stop the Christmas songs before Thanksgiving please!!!

End Jafo's plot to make the holiday season start at Holloween.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why are they playing Christmas songs NOW???
Cuz, there aren't a lot of Thanksgiving songs?



You can get anything you want at Alice's Resturant
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...excepting Alice
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We celebrate the Winter Solstice. Winter Solstice was overlaid with Christmas, and the observance of Christmas spread throughout the globe like a plague. Commercialisim and greed. The commercial where they urge you to buy your spouse a Lexus.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If I mention that 46ish years ago......

...was 12ish then. All most everything was done on Christmas Eve. Shopped on Eve. Yes, shopped (it didn't take a month of constant shopping) Wrapped the presents on Eve. Put up the tree and decorated on Eve. Thought the tree was soooo magical and was allowed to sleep on the sofa by the tree on Eve. Presents consisted of 1 main present and the other was always new underwear. Have to giggle when I think of it. You always knew there would be underwear. I tell you that it meant much more then. Kept the tree up until King's day and then down it came. As was said before, no sense fighting it. It's the sign of the times. Commercial driven. Glad I have the memories.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Since Jafo is not here and won't be back until Monday, I feel I can blaim him for this while he is not here to defend himself


Blame
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
[slinky1947]
If I mention that 46ish years ago....


I was 6ish, and there were 12 days to Christmas...tree and decorations went up 5 days prior and came down New Years Eve. Now it's over-kill and I'm numbed by the extremes of its over-commercialisation.

Since Jafo is not here and won't be back until Monday, I feel I can blaim him for this while he is not here to defend himself.


And what if he makes you sit in the corner upon his return?