When Do you Get that Christmas Feeling

yom 1

Now we all know that some shops start to put the christmas gear out in sept and that the endless stream of toy adverts also seem to start around then too. Although I have constantly seen these it still hasn't felt like christmas is approaching. That all changed last nite when i was watching TV and seen the famous Coke-Cola advert "holidays are comin, holidays are comin......."

I'm wondering when do other people start to feel like christmas is coming?

seamus

Christmas Day.

woosaysdan

june 25th

Ro: maaan!

I try to hold off the feeling until the 1st of December, but over the past two weeks it has been creeping in...

As soon as I find out how much time off I have. 23rd-4th Jan!

Yay I love working 9-5!

445279.ie

Driving home on Christmas Eve. And watching Willy Wonka!

Blub2k4

Bah Humbug!!!!!

0utshined

Humbug.

*Edit. Ahh, beat me to it.

Third_Echelon

yeah the coke and budweiser ads usually signal the start of x-mas...

woosaysdan

uummmmmm hamburgers!!!

yom 1

Papa Smut wrote:

Yay I love working 9-5!

yeah you can't beat the 9-5
i'm off the 22nd-4th jan

Sleepy

Usually it's December 23rd because it's the day I get the train back home to start the Christmas piss-up.

joejoem

not since about 1990 when I was 9

ixoy

Weekend before Xmas as I barge through shops, gift hunting. It's dark outside but the Xmas lights are on and the air is filled with the same damned tunes in repeat. But for the brief time I'm there, it works...

delly

The coke ads do it for me every year. I can't wait for the polar bears to appear as well.

meepmeep

The Coca Cola truck is in Waterford on Saturday

Kêrmêttê

Since the weekend I've been on a strict diet of Love Actually, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Bad Santa, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Groundhog Day, The Grinch... the list goes on.
Funnily enough I don't feel the Christmassy thing yet.
It usually hits me round the second week of December.

CathyMoran

I normally go to Paris in the middle of November for 4 days - seeing all the Christmas displays there at Gallery Lafayette and Printemps...failing that, hearing FairyTale of NewYork (Pogues) or Spaceman (Chris De Burg) on the radio...

Spalk0

Yeah usually the Christmas lights around the city center but not this year for some reason!

Havnt got the feeling yet, maybe when i see a christmas card or something!

gimmick

I kinda get into the xmas buzz around my Birthday, December 13th. Thats certainly when the liver destroying begins anyway.

But for me, Xmas only truly starts on xmas eve (best day of the yr btw), and ends on the 28th. New years is a good excuse for a fgew drinks.

stagolee

yom 1 wrote:

yeah you can't beat the 9-5
i'm off the 22nd-4th jan

nuts , im workin 12 hour shifts miles away from home on the 22nd 23rd 24th 25th and 26th , so this year im just gonna have to say bah humbug and hope that christmas feeling skips me for a year

Spalk0

Yeah Christmas eve is good now allright!

Used to hate it when i worked in a pub because id have to work all that day which ran close to 16 hours!Used to be knackered on Christmas day!

gerire

Third_Echelon wrote:

yeah the coke and budweiser ads usually signal the start of x-mas...

Hoildays are coming, Hoildays are coming, Hoildays are coming Tis the season ..........

gimmick

You may have seen this

Certainly gets me in the xmas mood.

Dave

I don't really these days. When I was small it was always when ray darcy and the gang would show those podge specials or start talking about going to lap land. Good days they were.

rainbow kirby

Usually when the Christmas music starts being played in shops, but funnily enough they haven't started playing it in work.

bringitdown

As I climb onto the Citylink on the 23rd / 24th ...

woosaysdan

anyone working in a pub for x-mas??? i am

climaxer

When the Toy Show is on and we put up the tree and decorations at home.

jester77

I usually get that Christmas feeling the first Monday in January when I go back to work and look at my bank balance and realise I can't eat for a few weeks until end of month/payday

sanncoo

I organise the Christmas Party at work so usually once that's over I start feeling Christmassy......

Lex_Diamonds

People associating COKE with Christmas is a bit scary.

As for me, I only usually get that christmas feeling while im sitting on the jacks, severely constipated due to the crap ive eaten, with the bathroom door ajar listening to Raiders of the Lost Ark on the tv.

woosaysdan

Lex_Diamonds wrote:

People associating COKE with Christmas is a bit scary.

As for me, I only usually get that christmas feeling while im sitting on the jacks, severely constipated due to the crap ive eaten, with the bathroom door ajar listening to Raiders of the Lost Ark on the tv.

well coke do own santa!!!

sprinkles

Yeah but they robbed him on Pepsi. Ah imagine if only they had kept him, we'd have grown up with a blue santa................

"I've lost that Christmas Feelin', woooaa that christmas feelin'........"

hasn't felt like christmas ever since I found out Jesus wasn't real. Shock I tells ya!