In my area, two local radio stations went to 24-hour Christmas music in mid-November. Ugh. That's way too soon for me, but it was a signal to start practicing tunes for the season. So I did - now I'll be burned out on the stuff by the end of November.

I was getting requests for Jingle Bells a week prior to Thanksgiving... sincere requests too! I politely told them that I wait until after Thanksgiving to start playing Christmas tunes, but I caved in and started playing a few almost-Christmas songs earlier this week like Sleigh Ride and Winter Wonderland, and also I put out my Christmas CD from last year for sale. The CD's started selling right away.

So I start playing my full Christmas list (41 songs) tonight, the first evening after Thanksgiving. Personally I don't get in the Christmas mood until December 23rd but I must be in the minority.