Okay so I will admit that I am one of those people who loves Christmas and probably am a little obsessive about it. I love every aspect of Christmas - the friends, family, parties, Christmas lights & trees, baking (although I don't really like to eat it all but I love to make it), cold weather, fire places - you get the picture. But I am a FIRM believer that you can't start celebrating Christmas until after the Thanksgiving meal is finished. Thanksgiving is a holiday and it deserves to be celebrated like one. That means that not a single Christmas decoration comes out until Thursday night and I have a real problem with people who decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving. I know I work in an industry that sets their Christmas decorations out in early November, and believe me they all know that I disagree with this policy, but I also understand that it is just the industry I work in and that is how things have to be done. I personally think it be some kind of rule that you can't turn on your Christmas lights until after Thanksgiving. I understand that since so many people pay to have their lights put up these days that they have to be put up well in advance of Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean you have to plug them in before Thanksgiving. In all honesty I have been known to unplug Christmas lights that I saw were on before Thanksgiving - that is how strongly I feel about celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving. I guess you can say I get it from my dad - he use to actually cut people's lights - I at least just unplug them. So I realize Thanksgiving is tomorrow, so I think we can all wait just one more day before we start to celebrate Christmas. After all we all have a lot to be thankful for this year so lets just take a day and enjoy everyone and everything we have to be thankful for.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
No Christmas before Thanksgiving
Okay so I will admit that I am one of those people who loves Christmas and probably am a little obsessive about it. I love every aspect of Christmas - the friends, family, parties, Christmas lights & trees, baking (although I don't really like to eat it all but I love to make it), cold weather, fire places - you get the picture. But I am a FIRM believer that you can't start celebrating Christmas until after the Thanksgiving meal is finished. Thanksgiving is a holiday and it deserves to be celebrated like one. That means that not a single Christmas decoration comes out until Thursday night and I have a real problem with people who decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving. I know I work in an industry that sets their Christmas decorations out in early November, and believe me they all know that I disagree with this policy, but I also understand that it is just the industry I work in and that is how things have to be done. I personally think it be some kind of rule that you can't turn on your Christmas lights until after Thanksgiving. I understand that since so many people pay to have their lights put up these days that they have to be put up well in advance of Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean you have to plug them in before Thanksgiving. In all honesty I have been known to unplug Christmas lights that I saw were on before Thanksgiving - that is how strongly I feel about celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving. I guess you can say I get it from my dad - he use to actually cut people's lights - I at least just unplug them. So I realize Thanksgiving is tomorrow, so I think we can all wait just one more day before we start to celebrate Christmas. After all we all have a lot to be thankful for this year so lets just take a day and enjoy everyone and everything we have to be thankful for.
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Excellent post! My mom is in San Francisco this week at my brother's and when I got to her house to keep the dogs I discovered that the whole house was already decorated for Christmas. It's like Thanksgiving didn't happen this year. So wrong!
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