Christmas Not Over The Top This Year
Dec. 17th, 2022 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's almost Christmas time. That's got a lot of people busy with anticipation, frustration, and occasionally holiday cheer. For me, though, it's a non-factor. I've considered myself a member of The Bah, Humbug Club for many years now.
It's not always easy being on the outs with Christmas. Some years the assault on the senses begins months in advance. Like in 2018 when Christmas decorations went up in stores right after Labor Day. That was the worst in recent memory. Most years, though, Santa leapfrogs Thanksgiving.
This year has been relatively tame. While I saw people who go all-out with Christmas decorations around their homes getting prepped a few days before Thanksgiving, they thankfully didn't light up all the lights and inflate the parade floats until one day after Thanksgiving.
Christmas music also hasn't been too prevalent in stores and restaurants. Most years it's been like retailers took the one dang CD of holiday music they had and put it on repeat day-in-day-out for at least 6 weeks. One restaurant I visit once or twice a month routinely plays their DVD of A Christmas Story— yes, the 1983 movie set in the 1960s where young Ralphie wants a BB gun more than anything else— on repeat. The same damn movie, over and over each day, for weeks in a row.
This year, not so much. With the songs, anyway. Stores thankfully aren't blasting Christmas tunes so obnoxiously. In the stores I've shopped at and restaurants I've dined at in the past week I don't recall any of them playing Christmas music on repeat. Though that one restaurant has bee doing their 500 reps of A Christmas Story again. At least they were when I last dined there... before Thanksgiving! I consider that a second piece of evidence that one of the owners has borderline personality disorder or some other antisocial psychosis.
It's not always easy being on the outs with Christmas. Some years the assault on the senses begins months in advance. Like in 2018 when Christmas decorations went up in stores right after Labor Day. That was the worst in recent memory. Most years, though, Santa leapfrogs Thanksgiving.
This year has been relatively tame. While I saw people who go all-out with Christmas decorations around their homes getting prepped a few days before Thanksgiving, they thankfully didn't light up all the lights and inflate the parade floats until one day after Thanksgiving.
Christmas music also hasn't been too prevalent in stores and restaurants. Most years it's been like retailers took the one dang CD of holiday music they had and put it on repeat day-in-day-out for at least 6 weeks. One restaurant I visit once or twice a month routinely plays their DVD of A Christmas Story— yes, the 1983 movie set in the 1960s where young Ralphie wants a BB gun more than anything else— on repeat. The same damn movie, over and over each day, for weeks in a row.
This year, not so much. With the songs, anyway. Stores thankfully aren't blasting Christmas tunes so obnoxiously. In the stores I've shopped at and restaurants I've dined at in the past week I don't recall any of them playing Christmas music on repeat. Though that one restaurant has bee doing their 500 reps of A Christmas Story again. At least they were when I last dined there... before Thanksgiving! I consider that a second piece of evidence that one of the owners has borderline personality disorder or some other antisocial psychosis.
