Monday, October 4, 2010

quick poll

As the kids and I were making dinner tonight we were listening to and singing along to Christmas music. My husband commented that any kind of Christmas music is annoying in October. So I wondered when y'all start listening to it. Leave me a comment so I can tell him I'm not the only freak that listens to it this early. C'mon, I know I'm not the only one! Also, just wondering what your favorite song is...

10 comments:

  1. I wait until the dishes from Thanksgiving dinner are out of the washer and into the cupboard and all left overs are in the fridge or freezer. Then out come all the window candles and on goes the music. The tree comes in hopefully the Sat after Thanksgiving or the one after that.

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  2. At least you admit you're a freak for listening to it at the beginning of October! I can wait until December 24th; 23rd if I'm in a good mood!

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  3. yes, we listen to it at this time of year too....and actually, on the way back from the ocean this summer too.!!
    Mary Did You Know? new fav..
    old fav. hummmmmmmmmmmmm,,,,too many to choose from, and too many different types to pick from. Guess I'll stick with Mary did you know...

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  4. My mom always started listening to Christmas music in October. I will start soon when Bob isn't home. It drives him bonkers too. ;-) Too many to count one a favorite.

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  5. Listen all year round!!! There is something so calming about it!!

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  6. I second what Dex said, in it's entirety. I love Christmas music for about... oh, two days maybe. But then, I don't love the Christmas holiday in general. I WANT to, and love all that it is about (I also love Mary do you know...) but it's just too commercialized, too hectic, too much money, too loud, too hyper. It is not at all what I WANT from that holiday, and since I do not function alone in this world, I can't make it what I want. But, I won't scrooge on YOUR parade! :)

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  7. one of my all-time favorite cd's is Nicole C. Mullen: Christmas in Black and White. I listen to it year round. I love Christmas music!

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  8. Not until at least after Thanksgiving, then I like it better.
    I agree that Christmas is too much of what Dog Hair in my Coffee said. I love Christmas, but not all the hoopla that goes with it.
    Don't really have a favorite tune, (like Josh Groban's Christmas CD)I like a lot of them, but I have a least favorite song. The Muppet Babies 12 days of Christmas. Oh how I cringe when I hear it! I can't turn the radio off fast enough!

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  9. I start at Thanksgiving and that is the only music on in my house(and car) until after Christmas, I love it and I watch all the shows and even the cartoons. Last year I started to listen to it a couple weeks before Thanksgiving and I even tired of it by Christmas so I won't start early this year. I love so many songs but a few that I really like is Celebrate me Home, Mary did You Know and Christmas Vacation.

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  10. I just read all the comments. I love Christmas too! I don't love the hoopla either.I love to: drive around and look at the lights, see cute decorations, the tree full of gifts and lights. I don't love: spending too much money, (because i get carried away)taking care of everything afterward, eating too much sweet stuff, or all the "cranky" people in line. But I do love to go in a store a day or two before Christmas and just watch people, and listen, i usually have my stuff all bought by then,so the pressure is off me, and giggle at the sights I see. Men, walking around in a daze ,frantically buying everything in sight,(cause they forgot Christmas was coming.) Kids are on screech,[their faces are pastey white, their eyes are sunken in, and have big black circles around them, and their noses are,...well,.. full- to over flowing...In my family we call that "Christmas Face", it usually begins right AFTER Thanksgiving, and right BEFORE they forget everything they have ever been taught in their lives! Oh, BTW, this usually fixes itself in Mid-January!(right before flu season!)...] Anyway, they are crying, grabbing, arguing, are exhausted, and haven't slept for weeks! They are out of school for Christmas vacation, and are excited and sugared up....Moms' hair,(what's left of it,) is sticking straight up; since SHE hasn't slept or bathed since October! She is on her last nerve, but has to take the kids with her anyway, and has to get something for the "one she forgot", or for the person who decided "to drop by tonight with a little something for the kids". So, how can we fix this situation, so that everyone can have good memories of their Christmas's and actually enjoy the whole process? I'm open for suggestions.
    NOTE :80 days 'til Christmas !

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So what's the view from your world about that? I'd enjoy hearing it.