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[snyprrr]

Saw my very first "Santa" sign up today!! Yaaay!!



I had gone into a Michaels on Aug.5 and it was wall to wall Halloween...



"...and they won't know the days or the seasons..."LOL



(gotta push out that two year old inventory out NOOOW!!!)

[Karl Henning]

I had gone into a Michaels on Aug.5 and it was wall to wall Halloween...

Well, and to think that I was going to complain about Hallowe'en stuff at Whole Foods this past week . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Saw my very first "Santa" sign up today!! Yaaay!!

Soon every retail shop will be just like Käthe Wohlfahrt...selling Christmas 365 days a year. In the great War on Christmas, Christmas seems to be winning 

Sarge

[Jo498]

no santa sign but Xmas style cookies at ALDI in Germany today as well...

[Mister Sharpe]

no santa sign but Xmas style cookies at ALDI in Germany today as well...

I am all for Christmas cookies being a year-round thing as I loves 'em.  Christmas (classical) music as well...and a pervading Christmas spirit throughout the four seasons would not come amiss.

[Karl Henning]

I am all for Christmas cookies being a year-round thing as I loves 'em.  Christmas (classical) music as well...and a pervading Christmas spirit throughout the four seasons would not come amiss.

I don't know if I could handle (see what I did there?) "Comfort Ye" all the year long.  Certainly not Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride (which I can enjoy just fine in December).

But you know what the true problem is:

[Florestan]

In the great War on Christmas, Christmas seems to be winning 

It´s not Christmas that´s winning, but Xmas, the marketing and commercialization of it for purely lucrative purposes.

I am all for Christmas cookies being a year-round thing as I loves 'em.  Christmas (classical) music as well...and a pervading Christmas spirit throughout the four seasons would not come amiss.

Amen!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

At this point in my life, I honestly would be happy avoiding the entire gift-giving thing. However, I am not a total curmudgeon; I do enjoy the lights, decorations, food, some of the music, as long as most of it is taken care of by others.

When I was a kid, I remember all the parents whining that "Christmas is for kids". Awwww, boo hoo hoo! All the poor parents should come down from their crosses and admit that they engage in the yearly madness because THEY enjoy it too. Don't blame the kids! What's especially ironic about that is that my wife and I (in our 40s) go through the same exact motions every year with the family--gifts, dinners, gatherings, etc--even though we are really tired of it and would just like to skip it. I would love to just forget most of it, especially anything having to do with gifts, cards, and the like. But if we did that, our parents would be so hurt and disappointed and sentimental...

We have no kids, and more than once have commented that "Christmas is for the parents!"

[Mister Sharpe]

I don't know if I could handle (see what I did there?) "Comfort Ye" all the year long.  Certainly not Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride (which I can enjoy just fine in December).

But you know what the true problem is:

Good King Wenceslas I wouldn't mind hearing everyday (I say that now, at least... ).  Feliz navidad , because of its repetition, drives me spare!  Besides, I'm in it for the cookies! 

[mc ukrneal]

I am all for Christmas cookies being a year-round thing as I loves 'em.  Christmas (classical) music as well...and a pervading Christmas spirit throughout the four seasons would not come amiss.

Bah! Humbug!

[Andante]

The Tooth Fairy makes as much sense.

################
Last night while you silently slept,
Into your room I quietly crept,
I found the tooth you left for me,
And left a surprise for you to see!

Thanks for the tooth!
Love,
The Tooth Fairy
PS hope you like the Stool 

[Mister Sharpe]

Bah! Humbug!

I've had humbug, thanks, I still prefer the cookies. 

[TheGSMoeller]

[Jo498]

I prefer seasonally appropriate sweets and deserts, e.g. now rather apple pie or other cakes using autumnal fruit than gingerbread. I guess I prefer apple pie to gingerbread anyway but I love other Christmas sweets and cookies. And I will probably start eating some of the seasonal sweets in early November or so, one has not to be anal about that. But now it is hotter here (around 30 degrees Celsius) than it was most of the summer (and really uncommonly hot for mid-september in Germany) so I am not at all in the mood for Christmas cookies...

[The new erato]

The best Cure for the Xmas silliness is watching this, which I kind of have as a tradition:

[snyprrr]

Well, and to think that I was going to complain about Hallowe'en stuff at Whole Foods this past week . . . .

I think we are seeing the end of this post-2008 bubble, that hasn't been fixed, and all these warehouses are replete with OLD OLD OLD inventory. Since they know there's no good holidays for $$$ after jan.1, they HAVE to do it now... this may be the last year here folks, as far as the "way things were"...

[Mirror Image]

The best Cure for the Xmas silliness is watching this, which I kind of have as a tradition:

Hilarious movie! "I'm on my f****** lunch break, okay?!?!?" Haha...

[Marc]

I don't know if I could handle (see what I did there?) "Comfort Ye" all the year long.  [...]

Just think of it as being part of Advent.
Then you only have to long for Christmas all year long.

Wouldn't that be a nice perspective?

Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Man, I already smell the scent of holly branches!
(On a desert highway, imagine that!)

Atriplex hymenelytra.

[snyprrr]

It really is creepy seeing how Our Corporate Nation needs to rid itself of old, unwanted Inventory by MAKING the people "recognize".

"Yo, it's muthafukkin Christmas. Buy some shit!!"

[Karl Henning]

There you go, warring on Christmas again!