I get really sick of Christmas music too. I mean they start playing it on the radio and in department stores at the beginning of November. Do we REALLY need to hear these songs for two months?!?! I think not! When I get home from school, I'm sure the Broadway Cares and Chieftans Bells of Christmas CDs will be in heavy rotation (well, since I just got royally screwed and I'm not done with finals until the 23rd, there'll only be a couple of days worth of holiday music at home! Fine by me!)
But I really think the whole season is starting to get overdone. Wouldn't a week or so be enough? Does it really need to be stretched out to a month, or more? I think it's a lot more special if you just make it into a few days worth of celebrating...break out the holiday music, decorate the house, bake some cookies, spend time w/ family and friends. When it gets all stretched out, it just becomes about buying, buying, buying. My family's pretty much abandoned making a big to do about it, and now we just have a nice dinner and rest up for the post Christmas sales!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)