Our local radio stations are already playing Christmas music

[Lavender Brown]

:wtf: :banghead: I can sort of get why the stores are starting to decorate already, but the music? Is Halloween now the kickoff day for this stuff?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Yeah, our oldies station is doing this too!

:eyes:

[CatholicEdHead]

6. KQQL, right? Kool-108?

They do seem to be pushing this back. In the past it was the week of Thanksgiving. I guess Clear Channel thought they would help encourage the early spending mood of the country.

For me the Christmas season does not remotly approach until Advent starts which is still a few weeks off.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Yes KQQL

I was pissed...I usually bounce around the dial, depending on my mood, and was in the mood for oldies last night...and got fucking Rudolph.

[Deja Q]

10. Yup. My alarm just went on and was shocked to hear xmas music!

A little early to give us that faux cheer...

[Left Is Write]

11. When I worked in radio -

we added Christmas music gradually. One song per daypart beginning in December, gradually working up to about four songs an hour the week before Christmas, and all Christmas music on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

[Left Is Write]

2. They keep forgetting about Thanksgiving!

No Christmas music until after Thanksgiving, please!

There should be no big rush to go straight from Halloween to Christmas (yes, I can understand retailers too, but I don't want to have to try to attain and sustain Christmas spirit for two months! It's a special time of year for me, and I'd like it to remain special. Overexposure makes it pretty much UNspecial).

[Lavender Brown]

3. I don't even start decorating until two weeks before Christmas.

Stretching the holiday over two months totally ruins it for me.

[grannylib]

8. Exactly! I LOVE the autumnal harvesty decorations, and refuse to do any

thing remotely Christmasy until after T-day and all the autumnal stuff is stashed.
Not to mention, how can you listen to Christmas music when you haven't yet heard the annual rendition of Alice's Restaurant???

[Metta]

4. Yeah, the hardware store has a big Santa in a sleigh in lights on the high

way. I cringe.

[bikebloke]

5. On orders of the corporate masters

I was in the local corporate monopoly drug store a couple days ago. Christmas decor and goods have already come out. I suspect they hauled it all out the day after Halloween. Two months of that crap for one day.

Bah, june bug!

[grannylib]

7. Hobby Lobby, the store so Christian it closes on Sundays, has been

cashing in on the second most sacred Christian holiday since JUNE here in Minnesota; that's when two aisles of Christmas stuff appeared in the store.
Makes me sick.
It hadn't even reached the Fourth of July yet and there were trees and ornaments and ribbons and bows and lights and whatnot and all...
Now as a hobby store, I can certainly see them stocking HOBBY stuff related to Christmas (like craft kits and all that, for people who actually make things, but...the trees? the lights??? the ready-made????? commercialization at its worst.)

[CatholicEdHead]

18. There are also year round Chrismas stores across MN

I think one is off Highway 10 in Royolton. There may be more. Some small town craft stores have some Christmas stuff year round in the tourist traps from Brainerd over to Detroit Lakes.

[grannylib]

20. Yeah I've seen some of the Christmas Village type stores up north...

somehow that's not so bad, it's at least honest about it all *lol* but the big box stores like Shopko and Target and all that, it drives me nuts that people can't do holidays in their own time, nor seasons for that matter...
I hate shopping for bathing suits in February and back-to-school in June (it just got OUT for pete's sake) and Hallowe'en in August...
do things at the right time!
I used to LOVE the day after Thanksgiving in my little NE Iowa town; the city Christmas decorations would go up then, and the stores would START decorating then, and my mom would start getting out our stuff...
it's too much now, doing everything so damn early. I refuse to touch anything Christmas until after T-day.

[cleofus1]

12. i'm an atheist

And I love christmas music...i don't mind hearing it at all...to me it's like fairy tales...very innocent and sometimes beautifuL...just don't ask me to buy anyone shit...

[SeattleGirl]

13. I love Christmas music, but it out to be against the law to

play it until after Thanksgiving!

[Fox Mulder]

14. I wish XM Radio had Christmas music on its online channels.

:(

I like Christmas music, but not until there's at least a few inches of snow on the ground.

[caty]

15. Ours too....

I don't have a CD player in my car--still have a tape player though---and a bunch of tapes. I will only listen to the tapes from now until after x-mas. I get so sick of the non stop x-mas music, especially when it starts this early.:grr:

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. The local "Lite" station does this every year....

....in mid-November. That will mean no 70s80s "Flashback Weekends" 'til New Year's Eve. Serious withdrawal! :banghead:

[ikojo]

17. During the Bush years and with a Bush economy

yes, the Christmas season, which I *thought* was not about buying
things but I digress...begins earlier and earlier because it takes longer for people to part with their cash.

[lakemonster11]

19. They were playing Christmas music at the book store today

It's a rule: No Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.

Any earlier, and it's just tacky. (And I *love* Christmas music).

[Merrick]

21. You know what you need to do...

Burn them down. Burn them all!!