Christmas ads!!

[quodec]

Call me an old grouch (grinch!) but its only the first week in November, I'm still hearing the odd Halloween firework go off and yet already it's wall to wall Christmas ads on most of the TV channels (especially the UK ones). Even flicking through from one to another to escape them brings you on to more of the same. I like Christmas in December, not in early November. Argh!!!!!

[Fugue]

Not me! Talk of Christmas in September/October (and it happens) is just ridiculous, but once Halloween is over, I'm perfectly fine with Christmassy vibes.

[CelticRambler]

No TV, no ads, Christmas or otherwise. Life is good.

[BrianD3]

At least Aoife and her reindeer haven't appeared yet.

I dread Christmas and this time of year, if I could go into hibernation about now and wake up at the start of February, I would.

[isha]

I'm going abroad for Christmas...wooohooooooo! So no decorating, no cooking, no cleaning in preparation for my adult children to come home and laze around for a week with me getting exhausted. I shall be swanning around old places and eating out in Italy

I haven't noticed ads because I also don't watch TV. The only thing I've gravitated towards are lights in the shop to see if there's anything really nice- I love Christmas lights.

[Fugue]

I know Christmas is a difficult time for many (I've had my difficult Christmases too) but usually I love it like a child does!

Personally I'd do it in January (worst time of the year) isha, but that holiday is gonna be beautiful!

[isha]

Oh my God I almost forgot about this Christmas ad I DID see. I think it's crazy. Do you think this is a spoof? Lickable Brussels sprouts wrapping paper

[quodec]

No, no, please stop isha, I can't take it. The ads are on Gubu now!! please make it go away!!!!

[CelticRambler]

Personally I'd do it in January (worst time of the year) isha, but that holiday is gonna be beautiful!

I've never understood the Anglo-Irish (+/-American) obsession with cramming more and more "Christmas" into the months before the 25th December, when there's a heck of a lot of miserable Winter still to follow. So many work-place "Christmas" parties organised for early December, and through November, and even brought forward to the end of October because they couldn't get a later date. And then nothing.

It's one of the things that attracted me to the Continental tradition, where the 24th December is the start of the party season, and it carries on until Shrove Tuesday.

That said, I'll be cooking a Christmas dinner on the 2nd December this year ... but only because my littlest sister decided it would be so, and she's doing it as a farewell feast for a bunch of the Australian relatives who'll have been in Ireland for a month. So I'm going to Dublin to see them anyway, and Little Sister said "grand, you can do the cooking."

[JayZeus]

Oh my God I almost forgot about this Christmas ad I DID see. I think it's crazy. Do you think this is a spoof? Lickable Brussels sprouts wrapping paper

I know a few people who'd take delight out of sitting down to lick their Christmas gifts instead of licking the windows for fun