This is why Christmas creep happens

[Tama]

I tried to find this one old Ray Stevens song about how he won't be home for Christmas but I can't find it on Youtube anymore.

[Android Kaeli]

I've started buying and wrapping gifts already, but you know what I did? I went into the greeting card section and bought a roll of wrapping paper from there. So a bunch of presents at our house already are and more will likely be wrapped in SOLID BLACK.

Oh, good. I'm glad that I'm not the only who has started -- then again, I make most of the things I give.

Irv, I've got you beat. People have been asking for Christmas trees since Jan.

[Chromatix]

Plastic ones, I hope? Otherwise...

[NorthernZel]

Not Christmas related, but stores over here begin pushing kids' winter clothing and shoes already in August. Yes, I repeat, AUGUST.

[EricKei]

Tama - ditto. A bunch of his other XMAS songs, yes, but not that one. It's from "Through a Different Window", circa 1997

[dalesys]

Oh, good. I'm glad that I'm not the only who has started...

It's almost too late to bake a proper fruitcake...

... to give this year ... now, for next year ...

[Tama]

I just like to get a big pile of loot so everyone gets all happy about their pile.

[Estil]

Well..ya know, if you still like the older strips, they've been putting out compilations of ALL of the old strips -- from the beginning -- every six months for the better part of a decade now (roughly 2 years' worth of comics per book) ^_^ I need to catch up on mine, speaking of which...>_>

I've been getting all of mine from Amazon (I got them all so far with this month's edition on pre-order which will finish the 1980s); it's just like the 50 state quarters program!

And at long last (and I was hoping and praying they'd do this) this November will come out the first "Peanuts Every Sunday" where they will start doing all Sunday strips (each volume is half a decade) in the original full colors!

[Aethian]

Best one I ever did was day of...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

It's almost too late to bake a proper fruitcake...

... to give this year ... now, for next year ...

But early enough to make one for the year 2014 at least.

[blas]

Not Christmas related so much as fashion related, but fashion being a season or two ahead just drives me bananas.

BTS in the middle of June depresses me because it's NOT fall yet, and it saddens me when I can't wear my new spring/summer clothes during a year like this one where winter didn't go away until MAY.

[downforit2008]

For me, it's not Christmas until it's OVER. I want to celebrate Christmas on December 26 or 27, when all the shit everyone went crazy over on the 24th is now 50 percent off, and you can save some BIG money that way!

[emax4]

I work at a Big Box hardware store, and I even I get irritated by how fast the stuff goes up. I even asked my boss if we had a stand and an aluminum pole to celebrate Festivus. Check this out though... Halloween is only 3 weeks away, and they have some Halloween stuff on clearance.

[Trixie]

We have Christmas cards out already and today I was working by them when a customer came up and made a comment it. Then she picked up a few boxes and looked at them. We also have candy canes, lights and popcorn tins out. I guess I've been at this so long that it doesn't even phase me anymore.