A whole month for a holiday that’s really only one day is already excessive. I don’t mind people celebrating their preferred holidays, but when it starts encroaching on others… when the decorations go up in stores MONTHS in advance, and that same tired catalog of crappy sappy songs starts to infest the airwaves, again, MONTHS in advance…
Did you know Christmas stuff is starting to show up in stores BEFORE Halloween? Seems a touch excessive, since that’s TWO holidays it’s spread past. (You could make the argument that people should be able to dress as Santa and/or Elves, and/or reindeer/moose for Halloween, sure… but ask yourself, how would anyone know even which holiday you’re celebrating?)
I’m just glad that the nature of the thing is to culminate in the gift-giving and relative-irritating event, so it has a TERMINUS. Otherwise it would leak past and end up spreading in the other direction too, and take over MLK day, Valentines, and push past St. Patrick’s, maybe even. It’s too much already. Can we PLEASE confine it to JUST ONE month?
Or else if not, let’s start spreading the others to push back. Make Halloween a monthly thing running from October 15th to November 15th, then Thanksgiving a running thing from November 16th to December 16th. Christmas can then have December 17th to January 17th. Or preferably how about just 12 days, and that’s IT?
Sorry to go on about this, but at the current rate, it seems likely to end up starting around Labor Day. Just saying.
Bunidad saves the day from Christmas-Creep.
#KCID (Keep Christmas In December)
A whole month for a holiday that’s really only one day is already excessive. I don’t mind people celebrating their preferred holidays, but when it starts encroaching on others… when the decorations go up in stores MONTHS in advance, and that same tired catalog of crappy sappy songs starts to infest the airwaves, again, MONTHS in advance…
Did you know Christmas stuff is starting to show up in stores BEFORE Halloween? Seems a touch excessive, since that’s TWO holidays it’s spread past. (You could make the argument that people should be able to dress as Santa and/or Elves, and/or reindeer/moose for Halloween, sure… but ask yourself, how would anyone know even which holiday you’re celebrating?)
I’m just glad that the nature of the thing is to culminate in the gift-giving and relative-irritating event, so it has a TERMINUS. Otherwise it would leak past and end up spreading in the other direction too, and take over MLK day, Valentines, and push past St. Patrick’s, maybe even. It’s too much already. Can we PLEASE confine it to JUST ONE month?
Or else if not, let’s start spreading the others to push back. Make Halloween a monthly thing running from October 15th to November 15th, then Thanksgiving a running thing from November 16th to December 16th. Christmas can then have December 17th to January 17th. Or preferably how about just 12 days, and that’s IT?
Sorry to go on about this, but at the current rate, it seems likely to end up starting around Labor Day. Just saying.