You know, I love Christmas music. I love the carols and I love wintery songs. I love the memories they bring back too. What I don't love is hearing them from Halloween on. It is getting totally ridiculous. Retailers keep lengthening and lengthening the season. Here is the thing. Hearing Christmas music now doesn't make me feel more like shopping. It makes me stressed. It makes me want to scream when I go to 4-5 stores and hear 5 versions of Winter Wonderland.

I have a friend who said everything stops come the end of October. that it has become one big holiday which he calls Hallow-thanks-mas Eve. We have lost the individuality of each of those holidays and to me, they have become less unique and less memorable.

I know I work in retail and I know I am dependant on people shopping to keep my job but good grief...can we do it without ruining the joy?