When do you consider the Christmas season to start?
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Season? It should start in december, but Canada starts Christmas season in november. It starts slow until after Veteran's day?and then?FULL BLOWN CHRISTMAS!
The family where I'm living have already setted up the trees and all. There are Christmas movies 24/7.
The family where I'm living have already setted up the trees and all. There are Christmas movies 24/7.
Well let's see, the hints of it are when my work starts putting out the christmas stuff which this year was August 8th, but the real season begins when the start putting the FREAKING christmas music in the rotation which would be today, so woo I can't wait to hear the same renditions of 12 days of Christmas over and over again for 6 weeks.
december first, but every year it starts sooner and lasts longer. by the time i die, half the year will be christmas
It starts and ends for me on christmas. Talk of christmas before or after this I find a bit irritating and even on christmas I don't like christmas carols.
Down here in Aus, Halloween's never been that huge a thing, and of course Thanksgiving is nonexistent, so there's nothing stopping the shops from putting up their Christmas stuff early, as indeed they have already done. This used to bother me, until I worked a shift in retail one Christmas Eve and saw people literally queueing for hours to pick up their lay-by items. (As in, the store closed at 9pm, and at 11 there were still people in the store waiting for their lay-bys.) Now I reason, the earlier they start advertising, the earlier people might actually start thinking about their presents to avoid the Christmas rush.
Personally? I set December 1 as my date to start thinking about Christmas.
Personally? I set December 1 as my date to start thinking about Christmas.
December for me is when the holiday can slowly make itself present. Obviously nobody gives a shit about what I think.
My family usually puts up the tree and the whole shebang about a week before Christmas.
My family usually puts up the tree and the whole shebang about a week before Christmas.
Same as Zontar, I consider it to be the 1st of November. No other major holiday afterwards and I spend most of December in an exam-based panic. As a result, all the cheer and decorations occur in November just to brighten everyone up. It also snowed pretty well a few days ago here in Southern Ontario, so that made me happy.
This. I live in an area where houses are really sparse and views can extend for miles, so those Christmas decorations my "neighbor" puts out can be seen from up to 10 miles away. Plus I work 3rd shift so I'm on the road at/around 11:00PM. I only wish people were as enthusiastic about Halloween as they are about Christmas, but bible belt, so what can ya do besides be enthused enough for everyone?kasperbbs said:
Beyond that, it depends on one factor: Will I have money? If I do, the season starts Friday after Thanksgiving, when I'm in the crowd with everyone else, looking for big deals. This year I've made note of what items cost pre-Christmas sales so stores can't pull a fast one and try to charge me the normal price and then tell me it's on sale.(this seems to be a growing trend between the big retailers, so eyes open!)
Now if I don't have money, well, my family's in dire straits atm, same as every year, so I expect nothing and would otherwise be vegetating in the bedroom either sleeping through the day or tuning out the rest of the world with noise-cancelling headphones.
This year I expect to have money. So I'll likely be buying for everyone, including myself come late Nov/early Dec.
December 24th, 7PM, to December 26th, 3PM.
When I become Emperor of Earth, violation of this precept will result in summary execution.
[small]I'm sick of hearing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" when it's still looking like autumn.[/small]
When I become Emperor of Earth, violation of this precept will result in summary execution.
[small]I'm sick of hearing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" when it's still looking like autumn.[/small]
Christmas in my family doesn't start until the weekend after Thanksgiving Day, because that is when we usually decorate the house with christmas trimmings.
Working retail, I noticed Christmas things being shipped and back-stocked at my store back in early September. We were getting Halloween stuff around the same time though but still...once I start seeing X-Mas stuff at retail that's about when I realize that we've hit that time of year.
December 1st.
and if I see decorations up before Thanksgiving i instantly want to burn the mother fucker down, house, store, doesn't matter.
and if I see decorations up before Thanksgiving i instantly want to burn the mother fucker down, house, store, doesn't matter.
