I. Love. Christmas. It is by far my favorite holiday. While I detest shopping for myself, I love shopping for the perfect gifts/stocking stuffers for my family members. That said, I am not mentally prepared to be bombarded with Christmas decorations as soon as I enter a store. (I’m looking at you, Walmart.) Where’s the Halloween? Where’s the Thanksgiving? *squints* Oh, yeah. They’re wedged into that corner over there. (Insert biggest of eye rolls)
And don’t even get me started on Christmas music. Once again, I love Christmas music. My Christmas CDs come out the day after Thanksgiving. Christmas music in October just makes me angry, LOL. At least I’ve managed to avoid the cinnamon brooms that come out this time of year; they give me a terrible headache.
Even though I’m anti-Christmas-decorations-in-October, there’s a part of me that’s starting to get a little panicky about the fact that I haven’t started shopping for stocking stuffers yet. I’ve even got two new family members to shop for. (Note to self: buy Christmas stockings for the twins.) True, the twins will only be 10.5 months old at Christmas so they won’t care, but it matters to me!
What’s your biggest holiday pet peeve?
Linda Lou's Life 
I agree – no Christmas in October. However, I can see it from the store’s perspective, but, at least, hold off on the Christmas music please! My biggest pet peeve is how some people take everything down the day after Christmas. The holidays aren’t over yet! Please leave up all the decorations until at least January 1.
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I have become one of those people, LOL. I love my Christmas decorations but once the day is done, I’m ready for them to come down.
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Walked into Lowe’s the first day of October and Christmas was EVERYWHERE. I love Christmas also, but I need my autumn decorations first!
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Right? I don’t want to dig through the Christmas decorations in order to find the season-appropriate ones.
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Thank you for asking. My biggest holiday pet peeve is that people overdecorate their Christmas trees. The branches are overly encumbered with, often times but not always, tacky decorations. The point of a Christmas tree is to enjoy the tree, not your ability to show-off and spend money on decorations. End rant.
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I don’t know how people do the “themed” trees with new ornaments every year. We downsized to a 4.5 foot tree 5 years ago. As far as I’m concerned, that was one of our best decisions ever.
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We did something similar. Got a *slim* tree instead of the huge one, gave half of our ornaments to Goodwill, and actually enjoy our tree now. 🎄
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I still need to donate a lot of our ornaments. I need to move that up on my To Do list.
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Walking into Home Depot this week and seeing Christmas trees with lights on at the front entrance! Really? I just wanted charcoal for the barbeque grill!
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Now that the Christmas decorations are out, Walmart has apparently decided that I no longer need to feed the wild birds. I had to order bird seed from Chewy.com.
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Same pinch.. I also don’t like this early Christmas fever.. takes time …
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I’m not ready for Christmas until after Thanksgiving.
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