When do you start to listen to Christmas music, if you do at all.

[DeferredGalaxy3]

Anybody here listen to Christmas music before December. I would always listen to music right after Halloween when I was younger, but our "#1 radio station in Kansas City" got replaced by someone else who starts at either Thanksgiving or December 1st. Now it's around Thanksgiving or some time before I start listening to them. Sometimes I'd forget that there even IS Christmas music. Mostly because Christmas is getting the least Christmasy every year.

[www1221]

No Christmas anything should happen before Black Friday

[MagicMurderBag7]

A few weeks ago I started. In fact JoCo just released a new Christmas album this week. I gotta pick that up...

[Hogan2000]

Every year bruther at Christmas time I pull out my balls dude. I string up real nice and I drag them down the hall bruther. They look so fine hanging there dude on my christmas tree dude. Mom and Dad, sister too were all so glad bruther to see my, Christmas balls bruther Christmas ball bruther, I've got great big Christmas balls dude.

[nascargo19]

Usually right after Thanksgiving.

[abynormal]

If I was Supreme Dictator for Life, I would decree that no Christmas music be played until December 1st. But since I am not Supreme Dictator for Life, I am okay with it after Thanksgiving.

Anecdote: One of my coworkers said they once had a manager who went way overboard with the Christmas music. She turned it on before Halloween and didn't turn it off until February. They once had a contest to see how many variations of any song they could hear in a single day. The record holder is "Little Drummer Boy," with fifteen(!) variations played over the course of a single day. Thankfully she is no longer there and the store has yet to start playing Christmas tunes.

[www1221]

I understand why retailers have to start decorating for Christmas a bit earlier than Black Friday but anything else is unacceptable.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

I understand why retailers have to start decorating for Christmas a bit earlier than Black Friday but anything else is unacceptable.

Christmas apparently begins before Halloween where I work. Our Christmas decorations started going up in mid-October (albeit behind a curtain, which was removed a week or two ago). Same for the music. It starts off as one Christmas song every once in a great while, now it's the Taylor Swift/Jason Mraz/John Mayer pop that only gets played once in a while.

I never intentionally listen to Christmas music.

[Numskull]

Christmas apparently begins before Halloween where I work.

Yup. That's not such a rare thing nowadays. It used to be enough that a sixth of the year was considered "the season" for this one freaking day, but even that is no longer sufficient for some people.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

I loathe "the holiday season" more and more with each passing year. I only hear Christmas music when it's being played in public, and I don't like any of it. In fact, it kind of makes me want to start fires. (No chestnuts. Just fires.) "Feliz Navidad" is the worst, although I somehow managed to avoid hearing it even once last year. I probably won't be so lucky this time.

Yup. That's not such a rare thing nowadays. It used to be enough that a sixth of the year was considered "the season" for this one freaking day, but even that is no longer sufficient for some people.

Wow, that's....remind me not to wish you a Merry Christmas.