NationStates Jolt Archive

So, the Christmas season is right around the corner, and everywhere you look, people are hanging up decorations, playing Christmas music, and stores are getting ready, way in advance, to sell you cheaply made crap, that no one wants.

and its not even December yet.

Having worked in a retail department store, I can tell you that right after Thanksgiving, the store played christmas music, and continued playing the same tape, until Jan, 1.

Recently, I delivered a pizza to a persons home, and heard Christmas carols being played, a week ago.

It seems to me, that the over-commercialization, and overly plastic covering the holiday gets, is driving me ever so crazier.
I am I just being a Scrooge, or are my Bah Humbug ramblings justified?
Should I be pissed at people taking such a shallow view of the holidays, or do I just need to relax and dredge up some christmas spirit?

No, you're perfectly justified. Last year I worked in a grocery store over christmas and I wanted to kill myself after half an hour of being there listening to the christmas carols.

You guys are lucky in the states though, you've got thanksgiving to break up halloween and christmas, up here they put up the christmas decorations right after halloween.

Of course the season is commercialized! Stores would go bust without Christmas and besides everyone I've talked to finds the season to be stressful instead of joyful. Fighting for parking, things to buy, remembering who is deserving of a present... Who wants to deal? I say give presents year round like a good person would do so that it does not feel like it is simply a required thing.

If you see anyone with decorations still up in March then you can definately get annoyed. :D

I have noticed an increase in advertisments for both toys and headache tablets. I wonder if there's a connection.

Thats terrible.

Its bad enough for me, in the states.
By the time Christmas DOES roll around, Im so tired of it all, its hard to be cheerful about it.
If I were exsposed any more to it, I wouldnt be able to enjoy the holidays at all.

Its as if the overexsposure continually jades me, right up until the very day.

No! Christmas isn't over-commercialised!

*Is a double agent working for Walmart*

Just wanted to have a light rant about Christmas songs:

THEY'RE ANNOYING! I hear them all the time now. But it's not just that there are only a few that get overplayed. The same versions of songs are constantly being played all the time. It's maddening!

To me Xmas is:

1. Getting and giving stuff. YAY!
2. My uncle coming for dinner. MEH!
3. My mother trying to make me Christian. BOO!
4. Xmas songs. BOO!, unless it's "Merry Christmas Everyone" by Shakin' Stevens.

All in all, I don't care too much.

Although I do love how year after year we buy ourselves out of recession.

I have noticed an increase in advertisments for both toys and headache tablets. I wonder if there's a connection.

No doubt..

:confused: We have Headache pill commercials 1 out of 3 [ estimated ] ... :sniper: :rolleyes:

You guys are lucky in the states though, you've got thanksgiving to break up halloween and christmas, up here they put up the christmas decorations right after halloween.
Thanksgiving is just practice for Christmas. There is no Thanksgiving decorations or music; it goes straight from Halloween to Christmas.

I personally, if I was ever a dictator, pass a law mandating that stores could NOT put up any Christmas decorations and play Christmas songs before December 1st, and the TV, radio and newspapers would be forbidden from running ads relating to Christmas until December 1st. It would have to end on December 31st.

I'd prefer it if stores would refrain from holiday decorations and sales until the first week of Advent. That still gives them a solid month of advertising, without having to make the awkward and tacky spooky-turkey-jolly transition.

We can't just go around arresting people for being stupid, can we? If we did that, many people here would have been locked up all their lives!

*Cookie for quote guessing*

This year holds the record for early introduction, I saw christmas dancers in July.

When I worked at a record store on Christmas eve towards the end of the day when we where sick of people and the fucking music we'd play The 'Priest,' They Called Him by William S Burroughs. Cleared the store pretty well-except for the shifty cats but those guys are easy to move out.