For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 01, 2023

Hallmark starts debuting new ornaments in July

I miss shopping malls and their massive holiday displays.

Couldn’t be mistaken for that.

Ummm….she approaches mall display crew and asks them questions? Usually people don’t notice them and walk around them.

My daughter is putting up her tree next week. Sigh

The old mall here used to have a haunted house every October – and started playing Christmas music no later than October 20. One of the hairdressers in the beauty shop near the haunted house told me that he wouldn’t mind either the screams from haunted house or the early music, but both together was a bit much. After a while, he couldn’t listen to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer without expecting to hear screams of terror.

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I worked at a retail store for 8 years and oh, yuck, the Christmas music was on a loop. When the 12 Days of Christmas would come around, I would go outside or go to the restroom.

They could rock around the wishbone.

Our cable system has MusicChoice channels that play different styles of music 24/7, and one of the channels is Sounds of the Seasons. It’s been playing Halloween-themed music for the last several weeks, but while I haven’t checked yet today, I’m willing to bet that when I do it’ll be playing Christmas music.

Halloween was the last (semi) barricade (Thanksgiving barely qualifies as a speed bump anymore), so buckle up, kids: we’re in Christmas mode for the next two months.

My thought is that radio stations shouldn’t start playing Christmas music until at least after November 11 (Remembrance Day).

I have 2 really good Christmas playlists on Spotify, but I’m not touching them until the day after Thanksgiving.

I’m sick of it now, leftover from last year.

Walmart has all there Xmas stuff out. just go to the lawn and garden area.

Normally I’d protest the early appearance of Christmas, but this year I think I need it. Going to wallow in it. Way into next year.

When did Gordon get a job at the mall? What happened to the garage?

I assume this strip is set in about the end of August. Of course, that’s in the 2023 era: this strip is from a much earlier time (though I can’t determine the year it was published :-( , so it’s probably mid-November in strip-time.

Some of us are sick of it now so why would you care.

I hate listening to canned Christmas music in stores and malls!!

To be honest, I’m not overly fond of it anywhere, at any time!

Why is Gordon setting up banners?

SOMA FM has had its Christmas channels up since at least October 1st

I don’t mind it so much when the decorations start appearing early because it’s nice to be reminded that something fun and festive is on the way. There is such a thing as overkill though.

There’s a pedestrian mall near me that does a tree lighting every year on the night of or the night after Black Friday. That stopped being fun when the tree went up, fully decorated, on November 1. Now, by the time of the lighting you’re so used to it you’ve forgotten it’s there.

In a Rite-Aid yesterday——Halloween,Thanksgiving AND Christmas stuff on display all at once.

Let’s take what should be a special time of year and cheapen and trivialize the experience. All for the sake of greed, commercialism and materialism.

Eastern Seaboard—USA.

Christmas doesn’t officially start until Laurel&Hardy in MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIErs

You’ve got to get with the times and trends and all that kind of junk.

Happy Merry Holly Jolly HallowThanksChrisHanuKwanz.

For this old panda, it’s time to avoid the stores.

Loath that musik.

I’d rather listen to Slim Whitman, on hold, on the phone, while waiting to speak to a human.

There might be some good deals at the mall, such as getting an electronic ankle bracelet so Elly can monitor where Elizabeth is right now.

This was originally published on November 1, 1994. Things haven’t changed much since then regarding Christmas decorations & music. If anything, it gets earlier.

Hallmark Chistmas movies start Oct 20 on both channels.

Four movies a week Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun and MORE Thanksgiving week Wed, 2 on Th 2 on F , Sa Su

https://www.tvguide.Com/news/hallmark-christmas-movie-calendar-2023-the-full-schedule/

.Com/popculture/tv/hallmarks-2023-countdown-to-christmas-movie-lineup-rcna105792

https://www.hallmarkchannel.Com/christmas/countdown-to-christmas-2023-preview/**

I am already sick of the holidays!

LOL… Used to be the tradition to start Christmas decor and music after Thanksgiving…. Now we even have “Christmas in July” ! Too many ‘-isms’ in this world today, including commercialism..

It’s lost a lot of its meaning since we do most of our shopping online

Is that Eaton Centre by The Bay store?

One nice thing that I liked about living in a small university city in Spain some years ago— the stores didn’t stock Christmas decorations, or haul out the Christmas goods, until December. The city didn’t decorate their streets with lights and such until the first week of December. However, because Spain celebrates Three Kings Day on January 6, that means that Christmas trees, decorations, celebrations, and big meals continue on until January 6. If you count on your calendar, then twelve days after Christmas is January 6.

Christmas is no longer just a season.

For all my past Walmart workers:

“All I want for Christmas is you.”

Christmas season didn’t start for me in the ’60’s ‘til you first spied the ’Andre Cold Duck’ commercial on TV..

Christmas season didn’t start for me in the ’60’s ‘til you first spied the ’Andre Cold Duck’ commercial on TV..