The Holiday season has begun!

[supernova]

Our local classical station just played Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker.

:eyes: :-)

[hippywife]

1. NO! NO! NO!

Not again! Please make it stop! x(









:hi:

[supernova]

3. It's like holding back the tide.

:-)

[TommyO]

2. I went to Lowes yesterday to get some paint samples

To the right of the entrance where they have their seasonal merchandise, there was a small section for Halloween (one endcap), the rest of the section was all ready for Christmas.

[supernova]

4. Yes, I've already seen some places

that have decorated trees up.

[TommyO]

5. Costco has been selling Christmas for about a month now

Since I'm in the market for new outdoor lighting, I am looking at these, especially since Costco tends to sell out early.

[tigereye]

6. I just bought an Advent calendar

only because if I don't get one now, there won't be any good ones left! :hide: But generally, yes, I agree, the X-mas stuff is out too soon.

[supernova]

7. I used to love doing Advent calendars

My aunt made two, one for her daughter and one for me.

During the year, we would buy little trinkets and toys for our calendars, things like funny erasers, or a little pen set. Then, in the fall we would wrap them and attach them to the calendars. Once we filled out the calendar, we exchanged them through the mail.

I got to open my cousin's gifts every day in December and she got to open mine to her. :-) Fond memories.

I still pick up a little item sometimes and think, this would go good on the advent calendar. :D

[tigereye]

9. how cool that she made them! We loved them as kids and I get them for mine

I really enjoyed a calendar with chocolates on each day, that came from the Fair Trade store.

[charlie and algernon]

8. i ended up getting a bunch of christmas songs on my pandora station today

You know how you pick the artists, composers, songs, etc you want and Pandora finds similar music. For some reason, they took my classical choices to mean that I wanted christmas music. made it fun having to explain to co-workers why they heard christmas music, lol.

[supernova]

10. LOL!

Never thought of Pandora as being seasonal. :D

[rurallib]

11. Local Public TV has played the TransSiberian Orchestra Christmas special

twice in the past week.

[texanwitch]

12. Christmas stuff has been for sale for a least a month here.

Macey's downtown has Christmas trees up.

Yes the season has begun.