Please quit it with the Christmas crap!
I find myself more upset year after year as the Christmas holiday slowly creeps into October more and more. This year has proven to be no different, and I believe sales, decorations, ads, and commercials have begun in record time. I'm sure Jarrod can't wait until Thanksgiving gets here so he doesn't have to hear any more mumbling under my breath every time I see Christmas stuff.
Halloween was barely over, and the commercials already started. Actually, I think they may have even started before Halloween this year.
Thanksgiving has, in recent years at least, always been a forgotten holiday. So the fact that Christmas has overtaken Thanksgiving does not entirely surprise me. Still disappointing, but not out of the question. But the fact that Christmas is now encroaching on Halloween is just flat out ridiculous! Why on earth do we need to be thinking about Christmas for a whole two-months straight???
The funny thing is, people ASK for this! I'm sorry, and I'll try to say this in the least snobby fashion possible, but NO ONE I associate with likes that Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year. So I don't really know the people who want this. But we drove by a home last night with their Christmas tree proudly displayed in the window! It's November 13th! What the heck are you thinking? Back in the 70s, according to my mom, it was somewhat strange for people to even put their trees up day after Thanksgiving. And now people are putting them up the day after Halloween?!
There is absolutely no reason for this. You can't tell me that these people are in the Christmas spirit already. If they are, it's a fake Christmas spirit because as we all know, Christmas isn't about how many decorations you can fit in your yard, or home, or how much money you can spend on gifts. It's about Christ Jesus, and there is really no reason for me to be preparing myself for this right now. That time is called Advent. The only thing that fuels this entire movement is the dollar, and there's nothing religious, giving, or warm & fuzzy that even resembles "holiday spirit" in corporate greed.
I implore everyone who agrees with me to not buy a single gift, a single decoration, or a single holiday anything until after Black Friday. Money talks, and in my mind, the best way to cast my vote against the Christmas expansion is with what I buy. I refuse to buy anything Christmas-y until it is around the time of the actual holiday.
Who's with me?
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