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Aggravating_Sell1086 t1_iy4sr9m wrote

Reply to comment by Shabingly in Let’s only do Christmas once every three years by jerseycityfrankie

>how long is the run up to Christmas now

It's however long you choose it to be. We'll put the three up the weekend before Christmas, and start making the mince pies and other goodies a couple of days before. You don't have to have your tree up in November.

They start advertising package holidays on Boxing day. That doesn't mean we should only have a summer break once every 3 years.

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Shabingly t1_iy4vfyp wrote

But it isn't my choice, is it. It's the retailers and advertisers choice. If it was my choice, with Christmas once a year the run up to Christmas would be 2 weeks before the 25th of December.

But no, I currently have to sit through perfume, aftershave, watch, and jewelry adverts from the middle of October. Every trip anywhere near a shop after the 5th November and I'm assaulted by tinsel, Wizzard, Wham and stop the frigging cavalry.

HUMBUG!

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Aggravating_Sell1086 t1_iy7bk1m wrote

Wow. Some adverts and tinsel, and you can no longer make up your own mind?

There are adverts for summer holidays in the middle of winter - it doesn't destroy my ability to enjoy a cup of cocoa and a snuggle up by the fire.

Maybe stop letting adverts and shop displays dictate your life?

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Shabingly t1_iy7clas wrote

I think you're missing the point. They don't dictate my life, but it is impossible for me to avoid it, and I don't like it. Is that clear enough?

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Aggravating_Sell1086 t1_iy7hon3 wrote

>They don't dictate my life, but it is impossible for me to avoid it, and I don't like it

Lol - that's literally the definition of dictating your life. Maybe grow up and stop expecting the world to revolve around your inability to think for yourself?

Or you could just do what I do when something is irritating and incessant, and has no bearing on my life. Ignore it - like I'm now going to do to you :)

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Shabingly t1_iy7r26p wrote

I think you need to look up the meaning of the words definition, literal and dictating.

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