It happens every year. It makes me cross every year. Every year I forget about it after the new one comes in and the suddenly early November BANG! it’s back again. As if the endless stream of singing santas wasn’t enough, this year they’ve decided to whack some tacky 40s overtures and make us all glamorous and luxurious – oh joy. Yes, it’s the season to cringe and give up life due to the onslaught of festive cheery advertising.
You can”t watch a film on TV for fear of a happy clappy puppet singing about christmas deals at a department store or santa trying to sell you drink. Every year it does indeed seem to get early and yes I do feel old saying that. I am now even starting to watch October TV through one eye just incase it springs a surprise jolly reindeer on me. Change the channel and you’ve got celebrities lining up to do festive mood selling of clothes. Change again and there is some advert they roll out every year because they only sell seasonal products so what is the point of breaking the christmas tree mould?
It’s enough to make you kill rudolph and dance around some burning tinsel.
I think the government should remove taxes on Christmas shopping and restrict the cheesyness of all Christmas advertising. Either that or being a Pay For TV customer I should have a little button I can press to turn off Christmas adverts. After all, they do have a little red button for everything else and it usually costs you money to use it!
I dream of a big red button…. we can’t get digital here though so it would be useless for me alas :( We aren’t bothering with satellite as we try not to watch too much TV so it’s an attempt to stop the channel madness.
That would be another reason why I don’t watch TV!
For a time, I had the unfortunate pleasure of working in retail through the holidays. If the customers aren’t enough to make you despise Christmas, the endless drumming of holiday music will!