I wonder - since Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, maybe this person was confused? I think they should wait until at least Remembrance Day, but that's just me.
Ooops - I forgot about the Canadian issue. *dons Ugly American badge of shame* But yes, same principle - I just think extending the "Christmas season" for what ends up being more than two months in some cases starts getting ridiculous - by the time it "legitimately" rolls around, we're all sick of it. Well, we Scrooges anyway. ;)
No. I noticed white lights around trees in my neighborhood this evening. Weren't there last week. But I don't know about colored house lights. But pretty white ones are fine. :-)
These were multicoloured and there was a candy cane all lit up so I feel forced to conclude they were not just decorative. I hope they were just setting them up because we had a break in the rain yesterday. I hope.
Admittedly, we have lights on our house year-round, but they are not obviously Christmas lights.
What is particularly mind-boggling is that the local radio station that we tend to listen to designated this weekend as a "Christmas music preview" and is playing something like 2 parts Christmas music to 3 parts standard music. It's really, really annoying. Start the music on Black Friday and I have no problem with it, though the music annoys me. But at the beginning of November? WTF?
My neighborhood gets really into Halloween and a lot of people put up strings of white lights, when they then leave up until Christmas. That I have no trouble with.
Colored lights, and reindeer on the lawn? Yeesh. Christmas taking over the stores the day after Halloween is bad enough.
I should add the caveat that, here in Milwaukee, if the weekend is nice, the workers get out there and decorate their asses off, because, well, otherwise, it's too cold.
I suspect this house may have put up the lights since it was a Saturday without rain, which is becoming increasingly uncommon as we head further into fall. STILL. Turn them off until December, plsandthks.
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Ooops - I forgot about the Canadian issue. *dons Ugly American badge of shame* But yes, same principle - I just think extending the "Christmas season" for what ends up being more than two months in some cases starts getting ridiculous - by the time it "legitimately" rolls around, we're all sick of it. Well, we Scrooges anyway. ;)
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What is particularly mind-boggling is that the local radio station that we tend to listen to designated this weekend as a "Christmas music preview" and is playing something like 2 parts Christmas music to 3 parts standard music. It's really, really annoying. Start the music on Black Friday and I have no problem with it, though the music annoys me. But at the beginning of November? WTF?
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I can't believe the Christmas music thing. Man. I hate carols on the radio - that would drive me nuts.
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Colored lights, and reindeer on the lawn? Yeesh. Christmas taking over the stores the day after Halloween is bad enough.
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I always think stores should wait until after Remembrance Day (Nov 11th) out of some antiquated sense of respect. I am, apparently, crazy.
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