Comments on: Cookies I Don’t Understand

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:29 +0000

And on the candy cane bit, I’ve already bought some myself, they’ll go on the tree, but not before the middle of December, any sooner and the nephews and friends kids would have it stripped bare by the 24th
(I of course would have NOTHING to do with the disappearing candy canes…)

Music: how about the Royal Guardsmen - Snoopys Christmas…

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:47:52 +0000

PaulG: Cherry Candy Canes: MMmmmmmm…..

As to the rest, I’m going to a clients Christmas party this weekend, so I think there may be a demand, a lot of companies move their parties away from the holidays to make life easier.
And our town has it’s ‘lights up’ festival this weekend, kind of the start of the season, but the usual skating party won’t happen as the lake is still open water (usually it’s got a skateable thickness of ice by now) although I suppose they could do it in the indoor arena.
I put up my Christmas lights last weekend so they’d be up for this weekend.

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:51:15 +0000

(Geezer Alert) I have an old Doctor Demento Christmas CD I play every year, but not before December 1. My favorite is Weird Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero”.

By: Keera

Keera — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:47:40 +0000

LOL @Nicole! That’s the Christmas spirit!

By: The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:11:57 +0000

I come from a family who generally gradually started putting holly, candles, and figurines around the house sometime between Thanksgiving and the beginning of December, but the tree never went up before Christmas Eve (at about 4 pm or later) and then still had to be decorated before bedtime. But I might be more tolerant of early Christmas decorations and music if I hadn’t worked at a department store for 3 Christmases when I was in my early 20’s (in the mid-1980’s), because it definitely burned me out for a lifetime (I saw the Christmas season’s start move from Thanksgiving week to Halloween to October 1). So left to my own devices, I have a better time getting into and keeping the holiday spirit when I save most of the shopping and decorating until about 2 weeks before the actual holiday, although I try not to do too much at the last minute and get too crazed.

However, I have totally different feelings about holiday foods - and I’ve already eaten 3 Reeses’ Christmas Trees in the past week since I first noticed them in the stores. I consider Christmas foods to be more like regular seasonal treats such as sweet corn, pomegranates, and Peeps, and I associate them more with the whole season than one particular day. I wouldn’t eat Christmas cookies and candy every single day for 2 or 3 months, but they’re a nice pleasant precursor to the holiday for me. And I might even occasionally eat them in June if they were available, the same way as I occasionally order a full turkey and stuffing dinner in June.

By: Lambie

Lambie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:48:35 +0000

They sell the Chrismas cookies so early that you can have a try of those cookies,
then if you like them you will buy more during Chrismas.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:17:48 +0000

I am already looking forward to January 2nd

On the issue of holiday music — for those of us who do not necessarily appreciate the ‘music’ of the season there is www.pandora.com

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:58:37 +0000

I couldn’t imagine buying Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, even if I decorated for Christmas. On the other hand, my market has a small section of bulk foods that includes seasonal chocolates. The Halloween designs show up sometime in early September. They are replaced by the Christmas designs the first of November, which are in turn replaced by the Valentine designs the day after Christmas, which are replaced by Easter designs the day after Valentines day. I’m slightly offended by the lack of patriotic designs.

My rock station, the only soft rock one in town, plays nothing but Christmas songs the entire month of December. Which is why I no longer listen to the radio; I turned it off and never turned it back on.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:29:38 +0000

David #21 - that seems to be a nice format. I’ll definitely listen to it after Thanksgiving. I don’t know if I ever want to listen to Bob Seeger sing The Little Drummer Boy though.

Karen #15 - we always celebrated Little Christmas (The Epiphany) growing up. I never understood the trees we’d see outside the day after Christmas. I think it’s what’s happens when you put the tree up right after Halloween. I saw one up in the next block early last week.

Sarah #22 - so it’s not just in the United States that we like to rush things.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:43:22 +0000

I work in a small shop that mainly sells homemade bread, cakes,biscuits and other homemade or local produce. Due to customer demand,we needed to bring in christmas homemade items before Halloween as people wanted to try them before ordering for christmas.
Here (in Ireland) we had christmas decorations for sale in August in some stores. We began selling christmas selection boxes and tins of sweets in October due to demand.