What marks the start of Christmas for you?

nimrod86

For me, It's the Coca Cola add and Ian Dempsey playing Fairytale of New York!

Anyone got any obscure ones?

Dotrel

This thread.

billybudd

yeah people turning into rude, barging, demanding and nasty f88kers

gustafo

xmas eve when i do a bit of shopping and as soon as the 2nd of the new year comes good luck and thanks for another year.

gurramok

The reason i do not watch TV! But unfortunately I cannot avoid Xmas songs when I go shopping so when I shop and hear Xmas songs that says Xmas is here. Maybe i'm an outcast in society and this Xmas lark, ffs, its only a day in the year which is heavily commercialised!!

hondasam

When ever the tree goes up, start of Christmas for me.
Christmas eve is my favourite day.

Hank_Jones

That feeling I get inside knowing that I'm going to struggle to buy half decent Christmas presents.

Oh joy.

LighterGuy

When the Christmas tree gets put up.

Kojak

The start of Christmas is the 26th of December - only 364 days left until the big day.......

Chuck Stone

Whenever the thing is where you have to recognize that everyone is just going to be the way things should be.

Sometimes I just think to myself 'heck' that's how things are and I don't even try to worry about stuff.

So that's what I have to say about the whole thing.

sidneykidney

Same as yourself OP with the Coca Cola advert.

OneArt

Nothing says Christmas more to me than when Mother starts loading the rifle and Father mans the rooftops. Nothing is more festive than the preparation for Robot Santa's attack on Christmas Eve.

gustafo

LighterGuy wrote: »

When the Christmas tree gets put up.

Anybody got there xmas tree up yet ?

kowloon

Used to be when everyone started panicking about getting everything ready for Christmas. Arguments about how the house has to be spotless or Christmas will be completely ruined. Luckily everyone has calmed down and relaxed a bit.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

The 8th of December.

Snowie

crimbo eve when i go in for the last shop i don't need anything but i think theres a wonderful sense of atoms fear people in train stations and airports people getting home its just brilliant every one looks like they've got some were else they want to be but at the same time really happy

i just love taking that kinda stuff in and nothing beet wishing a ransomer merry christmas

nimrod86

baz2009 wrote: »

The 8th of December.

That's when we give in and put up the decorations!

Dotrel

When the first Festivus card arrives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7-jcsB_WQ

RichieC

nimrod86 wrote: »

For me, It's the Coca Cola ad...

tut...

astonaidan

For me its the budweiser ad, Christ I love that ad, Oh and the drive to Galway to get presents

DEFTLEFTHAND

The 8th of December. When Advent starts.

stacexD

Walking down patrick street at 5pm freezing cold in the dark and its still buzzing with people, music blasting out of the speakers by gentlemans quarters and the (sh*tty) christmas lights glowing away.
Even though it's cold, dark, cheesy music and sh*tty lights theres no denying it's christmas time and you have to smile

IvySlayer

Guinness Christmas ad

HovaBaby

When you're in town and you hear "So this is Christmas" by John Lennon over the speakers, and then you step outside and it's a bit cold

El Horseboxo

Whenever the desire to stick Die Hard on occurs. Should be soon enough.

CliffHuxtabel

nimrod86 wrote: »

For me, It's the Coca Cola add and Ian Dempsey playing Fairytale of New York!

Anyone got any obscure ones?

For me its when they put up the street Christmas decorations in Galway.....so I guess 2 weeks before Halloween

Azureus

Christmas kicks in at a difference time of year eery year for me. This year is was yesterday, strolling around the shops (getting accosted by angry shopping grannies and women with buggies) with friends, going in to get a hot chocolate and headin to the cinema to see Arthur Claus.
last year was going to the xmas market at the docklands. I always put up my decoartions when im feeling Christmasy, so I guess I know what Ill be doing today

LordSutch

nimrod86 wrote: »

What marks the start of Christmas for you?

Last Sunday (Advent).

emeraldstar

When I get home

merengueca

Soon as I finish work and head up for the boat to get home for Christmas.

Car loaded with pressies and singing along to 'driving home for christmas'.

20 sleeps to go...

Palytoxin

A small bit at the start of Advent (as in a bit more tolerance for people obsessed with Crimbo/Xmas and pressies, but still very little tolerance).
After Midnight Mass, you have the chat outside the church, then you know it really is Christmas:D, and you couldn't give a fiddlers about what the general populus (see above) are doing from then on, because IT'S CHRISTMASSSSSSS:pac:

laoch na mona

Christmas morning

Scorpion Sting

The Coke ad - when that comes on then I start thinking about Christmas.

vampire of kilmainham

ringing in the new year starts xmas for me knowing it will be another year before it bleedin happens again

orourkeda

september

Kanoe

when the tree goes up, usually the second week in December. There won't be a tree this year and I've pretty much cancelled Christmas. I'm sort of looking forward to it.

nimrod86

Kanoe wrote: »

when the tree goes up, usually the second week in December. There won't be a tree this year and I've pretty much cancelled Christmas. I'm sort of looking forward to it.

:eek: How come?

corktina

fairy tale of new york on the radio. It sucks, and so does the rest of the crap "christmas" music they play every year....why o why do they do it?

Kanoe

nimrod86 wrote: »

:eek: How come?

no kid this year
I usually spend the Christmas with family but not really bothered about it now. It is and always was for the children and don't feel like getting in the humour for it without her around to share it with. It will be my first Christmas alone though so in someways I'm curious to how it's going to go, might be fun.

Dravokivich

The dinner.

Zwillinge

When the RTÉ Guide is bought and flung about the sitting room.

ff9999

This one seems obvious: when you're decorating the tree

Siuin

Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas Is you
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John Doe1

when the bitches be forming an orderly queue under the mistletoe for john doe1

laoch na mona

Kanoe wrote: »

no kid this year
I usually spend the Christmas with family but not really bothered about it now. It is and always was for the children and don't feel like getting in the humour for it without her around to share it with. It will be my first Christmas alone though so in someways I'm curious to how it's going to go, might be fun.

get a bottle of whiskey and a Santa suit nothing says Christmas like a drunken Santa

admiralofthefleet

when i see the coca cola trucks and budweiser horses ad on the telly

KamiKazeKitten

That Coke ad and Xmas FM

Missmiddleton

the arguments about when christmas starts

JONJO THE MISER

When i see the farmers around town with wellies, hang sandwiches wrapped in plastic bag, milk in a lucozade bottle and a flask of tae.

St.Spodo

When the tree goes up, usually a week before Christmas.

losthorizon

Dotrel wrote: »

This thread.

Thats what I was going to say!