Christmas Music on Repeat - Before Thanksgiving! 😡

[canyonwalker]

While we've been out and about this past week, at stores and restaurants, many have been playing Christmas music on repeat. Christmas music?? It's not even Thanksgiving yet!

It used to be that the day after Thanksgiving, "Black Friday", was the start of the commercial Christmas season. I hate the way retailers have leap-frogged the holidays so that now Christmas selling starts even before supermarkets load up on turkeys.



Years ago my dad remarked, "Thanksgiving is the one holiday they haven't corrupted." "They" meant Corporate American, particularly the retail sector; and "corrupt" meant change in purpose from whatever religious or other solemn significance various holidays were once well understood to have, to being all about exhortations to buy, BUY, BUY to prove to everyone how much you love them.



Well, "they" did finally corrupt Thanksgiving.... Not by corrupting Thanksgiving itself but by driving over it with Christmas. Now stores begin Christmas advertisements after Halloween and play Christmas music nonstop in November.



Will anyone else join me in saying, "Stop"?

Comments

[missyb]

I've been yelling about this for decades and have been informed I'm being a Grinch.

Fuck that, I don't want Christmas music til December 1. Give me time to sleep off the turkey coma.

[canyonwalker]

I've embraced being part of the "Bah-Humbub Brigade", as I call it, for now more than 25 years.