Poll: The Holiday Season

[Someone Depressing]

I hate Christmas. Man, do I hate Christmas.

Christmas barges in right after my birthday, and suddenly, nobody wants to hang out with me because their obliged duties are "obtain overpriced presents for relatives that will immediately be returned; complain about holiday anyway". Christmas has an agenda against me. Christmas offends me.

Christmas should get out of the fucking way until I've hard my turn. Until I'm done, thinking it can rear its ugly head 'round here, interrupting my God damn birthday. Get Samuel Jackson up in this shit, kick Christmas's ass. *explosions*

 

[StriderShinryu]

For me, it's definitely after Nov 11 (Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day). As a Canadian, our Thanksgiving comes earlier so it's already after that and I absolutely feel that Nov 11 should be respected and commemorated without the overlay of Christmas. A day of thanks for those who have lost their lives in service to their country, and those who have lost their lives to war in general, also makes a perfect lead in to the Christmas season.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

After Thanksgiving would be lovely.

I love Christmas, don't get me wrong, but I would like to celebrate Halloween first before Christmas gets all up in my grill.

Also, I say Merry Christmas. It's pretty much ingrained in my brain that I feel dirty saying anything else.

 

[Neonbob]

I'm a grump. Seeing Christmas stuff go up right after Halloween in our local Wal Mart made me depressed. I feel like they need to wait until maybe ten days before Christmas before really going all out and decorating everything for it. As it is, skipping over Thanksgiving is bad enough. Rather than getting to enjoy any of the time between the holidays, it feels like one big rushrushrush to get to Christmas. I get it from the retailers' point of view, Christmas is more profitable. But fuck is it annoying. Pretty much every year, by the time Christmas rolls around, the overexposure has killed all of my Christmas spirit and I'm ready for it to go the hell away.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I get serious about gift shopping/making in early September.

But I don't decorate at all.

I enjoy Christmas a great deal, but for me, but as I don't observe Advent any more it would be fine if it started on the 23rd of December.