Navidad

[desayunoencama]

Tonight I just saw the trucks going around stringing the wires between buildings that the Christmas lights hang from.

It's October 6th!

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[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

The Xmas decorations were on sale at Costco over a week ago!

[e-cunningham.livejournal.com]

Premature Christmas is a pet peeve of mine. I do NOT want to see Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving, much less before Halloween. (And please, no Halloween stuff before the kids go back to school.)

I can take Christmas in small dosages, but the frenetic merchandising, the total cultural immersion, the relentless cheesy music, the Bill O'Rileys of the talk show world loudly insisting upon their right to cram this holiday and its True Meaning down everyone else's throat . . . this, I could do without.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

In Spain, Navidad lasts until Jan 6th, too, which is Reyes (Epiphany) since that's when the Magi arrived with their gifts, so that's when giftgiving happens here, not with imported Santa Claus traditions.

We don't really have Halloween here, though, and obviously not Thanksgiving.

Habibi (http://wordarranger.blogspot.com)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my, every year it gets earlier.
I remember in 2005 I posted about the exact same thing happening in November 3rd. Wow, it is almost a month earlier.
Today I saw a sign in my street that tomorrow it is not allowed to park due to cutting the leaves of the trees. If when I get back home I see Christmas lights I will shout!

Re: Habibi (http://wordarranger.blogspot.com)

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Espero que no tuviste que gritar...
:-)