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What irks me about the holidays
CellarDweller:
ya know, I may have to take a trip out with my digicam, and post some tacky pics up for y'all.
Ellemeno:
Here in Seattle, I'm pretty lucky - if I avoid downtown (which I do), and don't listen to commercial radio (which I can pass on very easily), and stay out of stores (which, I'm happy to say, is also pretty easy to do except for brief forays), I don't have to get assaulted by Xmas much at all. Like some of the rest of you, I enjoy seeing how people decorate their houses as I drive by, and I like all those little white lights, so it's pretty tame here.
Dobie1018:
I don't like how early the Christmas season is pushed upon us. Here in Florida at least, the new Christmas ornaments come out in the card stores on July 1st of each year, and little by little over the months leading up to Christmas, Christmasy things start showing up in the card stores and other stores, so that by the time Christmas Day rolls around, everyone is so sick of it, they want it to be totally over and done with by December 26. On that day, you see Christmas trees tossed out by the road, and Christmas lights turned off until next year. When we were kids, we didn't even see anything having to do with Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. We'd put up our Christmas tree up and sent out our Christmas cards a week or two before Christmas, and we would leave our tree up and our Christmas lights up until mid January. After all, we didn't feel back then that the holiday season ended on December 26, and it really doesn't. Too bad it's gotten so commerical.
Jeff Wrangler:
Is it just me, or are the TV commercials more obnoxious this year?
There's that Target Lady, returned from last year, I think. And the Honda commercial. And the people singing carol parodies to get you out of the mall and into T.J. Maxx and a couple of other stores I can't remember at the moment. And that little--whatever it is--for H.H. Gregg. ...
Oh, and here in Pennsylvania we have Gus the Groundhog hawking state lottery tickets to the tune of "Jiingle Bells."
Bah! Humbug! >:(
louisev:
I don't find the commercials obnoxious at all, Jeff.
I don't own a television! yay!!!
I can't tell you how happy I am as time goes on, that I don't have television and I don't want one!
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