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Has anyone else worked for a major company and had to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving? Why does it seem like that the holiday season music gets so early? I’ve only been on the job for two days and it kinda getting to me already. I assume that this is the norm for the retail industry. Is it like a proven thing that people will buy more than normal if they hear holiday music?
 
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It’s meant to put people in the holiday spirit. Not meant to annoy
 
Last year, I saw Christmas trees in Walmart in September. I get so sick of Christmas before it gets here, that when it gets here I don’t want it. I know that sounds terrible.
 
My boss decided to put up the Christmas decorations this week.
 
My wife is already mostly done with Christmas shopping. 😆 She shops for stuff all year long whenever a good deal comes up.
 
I love Christmas music, I listen to it anytime of the year. It becomes my primary music this time of year, and goes through the end of the Christmas season in Feburary!
 
To me, it’s more difficult and disheartening when they stop playing the Christmas music and take down all the decorations the day after Christmas. I can handle starting the celebration early much better than cutting the celebration short.
 
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I love Christmas music, I listen to it anytime of the year. It becomes my primary music this time of year, and goes through the end of the Christmas season in Feburary!
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That’s how I feel about Christmas music, too. I love hearing it.

I also like the “Christmas in July” movies when they’re on TV.

I’m one of those annoying people that can love Christmas all year 'round! 😁
 
You and my 13 year old niece would get along great , she loves to annoy me by singing Christmas music
 
I enjoy certain types of Christmas music, such as all the Christmas hits of about 1940 through the 1970s featuring singers like Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys doing Little St Nick, etc. I can’t stand all the contemporary performers who feel a need to release a Christmas album though. The last one of those I liked was John Denver’s, which was decades ago and I mostly liked it because I had a teen crush on John Denver. It also contained a totally miserable song called “Please Daddy Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas” which is not anything one needs to listen to at Christmas time.

There are also a lot of good Christmas songs I never hear on the Christmas radio anymore, such as the two Christmas parodies by Weird Al, “Hard Candy Christmas” by Dolly Parton, and “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”.

I was very annoyed last year when some stations decided to pull “Baby it’s Cold Outside” from their Christmas music program. My mother had sung that song to me ever since I was a child and I never thought of it as creepy or “me too” or any of that because there was no suggestion of force being used. I suppose next they will want to pull “Santa Baby” for being politically incorrect. :roll_eyes:
 
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My wife is already mostly done with Christmas shopping. 😆 She shops for stuff all year long whenever a good deal comes up.
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Mine too. Its much easier on the budget to spread it out instead of buying everything in December.
 
The original versions of it in the 1970s were pretty much in line with all the other sad tear-jerker country songs of the time. John Denver did a couple of satirical songs (“Forest Lawn” and “Toledo, Ohio”) but he didn’t perform that one as satire. It did get criticism for the music being too upbeat for a song about a kid crying over his daddy being drunk and making his mama sad.

Later on when other acts started covering it, such as the Decemberists, I think people started to think of it as a joke, because by then all the tearjerker-country had also fallen out of favor and become a joke among many snide hipster types. Like the other Christmas song about the kid whose mama is dying and he doesn’t have enough money to buy her a pair of red shoes. I’ve heard various know-it-all indie rock types snigger all day long about that one. I really hate people sometimes.
 
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Last year, I saw Christmas trees in Walmart in September. I get so sick of Christmas before it gets here, that when it gets here I don’t want it. I know that sounds terrible.
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Soooo many people I know are saying that. It’s so sad to me. Folks around here decorated for Halloween the ENTIRE month of October (which bugs me in its own way because Fall is so short-lived here & instead of enjoying the beautiful colors I had to see mummies swinging from the trees!) Then on the first week of November the Halloween decor came down and up went all the Christmas lights! Unreal. Whatever happened to enjoying AUTUMN and Thanksgiving? We have a little scarecrow in our yard for Thanksgiving… but I feel like we are the neighborhood weirdos. The other yards all have lights and Santa. Why???
 
December 26+

“Load 'em up and move 'em out, boys! It’s Valentine’s Day!”
 
That’s a holiday I could celebrate all year! My kids can spend HOURS making valentines for the grandparents. February is the month my brain gets to go on vacation. Throw pink and red crafting materials + glue + scissors in front of everyone… sit down with a cup of tea and read a book for the next two hours!!

Edited to add: glitter and stickers, too. I know some people hate the mess… but it’s nothing 5 minutes with a vacuum can’t fix after everyone goes to bed. 😂
 
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Beryllos said:
December 26+

“Load 'em up and move 'em out, boys! It’s Valentine’s Day!”
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I still recall one year seeing the Reese’s Peanut Butter Easter Eggs on the store shelf in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. 😳
 
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