Hm.

[hilandercs]

Well, I'm stuck at my parents house for another hour. Silly me, when my dad said he needed me to clean out the gutters, I actually thought they'd be....dirty. Well silly me. They weren't sparkling...but there was only a bucketfull of leaves and pine needles in them. Took me like 10 minutes. Well, to be fair I didn't get it all. Couldn't. The ladder

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[frumple]

I cannot help but think about one of the Charlie Brown movies where a store was all their Christmass decorations up for Easter. :)

blame the corporate machine

[sabine42]

...because sadly, even those of us with traditional, holiday or religious leanings, who are in big support of the holiday and even "start humming annoying christmas tunes the day after thanksgiving" feel the same way too. It's annoying as hell. I threw a small fit in Starbucks last week when they were fully decked out for the holiday. We have no power over this obsessive commercialism, and it pisses us off too.

(Btw, sorry if you get this twice. Our internet keeps freezing up and it caught me mid-post a few minutes ago...)

[disc_sophist]

Agreed. I love Christmas. I was raised as a Catholic, and we are all about the christmas holiday. But this? Madness. I don't really even understand why Christmas should take time away from Thanksgiving. If we're so damn non-denominational, why don't we spend a little longer on holidays like Thanksgiving?

I know, I know. It's the gifts. If people didn't give gifts, it'd be just another family get-together, and for some, a trip to church. But we must BUY! And not only that, but we must celebrate the BUYING! Before get a single bite of Thanksgiving turkey, we must hear the carols and sing along cheerfully and wonder in ignorance why the employees, mournfully selling us our "assorted bath salts" for grandma and our "slipper socks" for Dad, aren't whistling like shiny, red-cheeked elves.

Ah well. I still love Christmas. But like you, I just wish it would stay where it is.

[alwyswnder]

guess what? my bath and body works ended up on the front page of the newspaper for being the first place in maine to set up christmas decorations....

we set up the decorations about a month and a half ago...

[alwyswnder]

oh yeah, and our music we can listen to is one tape which is only 3 hours long of hip new redone christmas songs...

because they weren't bad enough, now britney spears and christina are singing them...*sigh*

[catiekitkat]

that's why I do my shopping for the holidays in June...THE BEST THING WHEN I WORKED RETAIL LAST YEAR: getting halloween and christmas things in at the same time.....yeah umm not, its so commercial now it sickens me:( MISS YOU THOUGH AND KAYCE TOO!!