F****ING christmas music has started on oct 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!someone shoot me!

[draggar]

Alright, the WAR has started.

We stopped by Yankee Candle to see my sister in law. They got in *and* had to set up Christmas merchandise and product on the 4th also.

Still doesn't beat the record of mid Sepember, but it is getting close!!

[Mike Taylor]

The Christmas product has already started rolling it where I work, but it's being held in the back until after Halloween. Luckily for us, it's all seasonal DVDs and CDs. The company does not decorate the store for ANY holiday. Down here in sunny Florida, I do have an ice cream truck that plays Christmas music, but I think that's less to do with trying to sell Christmas product and more with the crew being idiots.

[daleduke17]

I was in the mall Saturday and was wandering around and decided to go into the Hallmark store. That is about the only store I don't mind having Christmas stuff up around this time of year. At least the music hasn't started there yet.

The best part about the mall I was in is the fact that the Hallmark store is two doors down from a Hot Topic. :-p What a clash.

[Racket_Man]

Oh hell no. I've joked that soon they will be starting Christmas Shopping and music right around my birthday and that is in January. At one of the stores I worked in our Christmas music would start about the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and end on January 2nd. One day, all of us cashiers/office people kept tabs on how many times we heard one certain song redone in a number of different ways. We stopped counting at 10 or 12.

Also, if I hear "Santa Baby" or "All I Want For Christmas Is You", I cannot be held liable for my actions. :-p

Due to numerous complaints from employees at the factory, Christmas music is played at a minimum. In fact, they still will only use the 4 stations they already use. If a Christmas song comes on one of those stations, well, we're stuck with it, but at least there isn't a Christmas channel! And if there is, we won't have to listen to it

When I was on third shift last year, we'd turn a radio to one of the oldies or classic rock stations that would come in, then set a nearby phone to page and put it by the radio.

Crappy fidelity, but it beats the snot out of every version of "Jingle Bells," "Santa Baby" and every other Christmas song known to man.

When people would come in at 5 am, we'd have to hang up the phone and shut off the radio so people could page each other if needed.

Daleduke I feel your pain and violent thoughts all toooooo well


Blas we could not even complain about the music was the owners decision

IPF I wish I could ahve done that

in the Green Bay area there is a station (the Breeze more like a bad fart IMO) that will play nothing but Xmas music from the first week in Nov till just after New Years. At the gas station I used to work at the OWNER dictated that we put this station on and KEEP it on 24/7 not too bad but as others have said HOW MAHNY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF CERTAIN SONGS CAN THERE BE???????? this station ALSO had the John Tesh radio program (can you say 3 or 4 hours of that crap sorry this is my opinion along this Xmas songs). the only saving grace was that the station played the song "Linus and Lucy" by the Vince Garaldi Trio ahhhhhh memories from my childhood I watch the first showing of a Charlie Brown Christmas back in 1965 and fell in love with that song. it just screams Xmas to me like no other song for some reason. if I could hear that song twice in an 8 hour shift I could semi-tolerate the other Xmas stuff/crap

[CrazedClerk]

the only christmas music I could tolerate this time of year is Weird Al style:

"christmas at ground zero" or "the night santa went crazy"

[Estil]

At our house (though we were a bit late this year) we have a tradition me and my wife started on our first Christmas together in 2005. We don't put the Christmas stuff up until the day baseball playoffs start and not a day earlier.

I say if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

[iradney]

Oh hell
It's started here too. They haven't started with the music (thanks various deities) but there are christmas trees up.
IT"S OCTOBER!!!!
*sigh*

[Jester]

At our house (though we were a bit late this year) we have a tradition me and my wife started on our first Christmas together in 2005. We don't put the Christmas stuff up until the day baseball playoffs start and not a day earlier.

I say if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

You have joined them in their evil quest to drive us insane.

NURSE! These two need alcohol, and lots of it--STAT!


And keep them drinking until they have learned the error of their ways!

[Bloodsoul]

the only christmas music I could tolerate this time of year is Weird Al style:

"christmas at ground zero" or "the night santa went crazy"

"It's Christmas at ground zero, the button has been pressed. The radio just let us know that this is not a test..."

Makes me wonder if I should just put up my Santa Butt-head and Reindeer Beavis avatar now? ^_^

[Crawley]

As the great Lewis Black once said, "We don't celebrate holidays anymore. We just like to announce they're coming."

[TNT]

Hark! the Herald Tribune Sings!

A thought from Tom Lehrer:

Hark! the Herald Tribune sings!
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!

[Killer Bees]

Christmas will very soon be a year-round thing. Already here in Aus they have Christmas in July (because it's winter here then). That started a few ears ago. I don't know of anyone who celebrates it in July though.

Just another example of the retail industry gone mad with trying to make money. I don't even bother with Christmas in December let alone any other time of the year. And why is it the rule that Christmas music is the worst music ever? (Besides rap, r & b and heavy metal of course).

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And why is it the rule that Christmas music is the worst music ever? (Besides rap, r & b and heavy metal of course).

Where did anybody say it was the worst music ever?

I enjoy a little bit of it as the holidays are approaching. But at work I get subjected to the same songs, over and over again, in different versions ranging from pretty good to power-puke inducing. It just gets old really fast.

[daleduke17]

sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Ya know, I don't think I could celebrate Christmas with a beer in my hand sitting by the pool. :-p

Well, Christmas with a beer in my hand would be ok. Not sure about the pool.

[Retail Associate]

Our store no longer plays continuous Christmas music during the holiday shopping season. You may hear one or two songs per hour and that's it.

I kind of missed it last year.

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