Let’s get one thing straight. I love Christmas as much as the next person. I love giving presents, cooking, decorating, and celebrating the season and all it stands for.
I just don’t love it in November.
Why do we have to start in on Christmas the day after Halloween? Is that really necessary? Can’t we take a little breather, disassemble the Halloween decorations, enjoy Thanksgiving, and THEN get into the Christmas spirit?
Target has had Christmas stuff up for weeks. One of my favorite local radio stations is now playing (and has been playing) 24-hour Christmas music for a while now. I’m getting holiday catalogues already.
I mean, come ON.
You know what the biggest problem with this premature holiday consumerism is? Now my kids look at me with shining, eager faces, and wonder when we’ll put up our tree. When I’ll start baking cookies. When we can pull out the decorations. As if I’m the one with the problem because I want to celebrate Thanksgiving before Christmas.
I think we need to draw a line in the sand right now: No Christmas before Thanksgiving!
I mean, think about it. If we let this go unchecked, next year they’ll have us getting out the tinsel just as we’re putting away our bathing suits and charcoal grills after Labor Day.
I’m just saying.