As an avid fan of the Christmas holiday, it seems to me that it is getting closer with each year. It seems as if the day after Halloween you will turn on the radio and hear Christmas songs or walk into the mall and see Santa posted all over and Christmas trees already set up.
Do not get me wrong, I love the Christmas season and all it entails, but when I go into work the first day of November and see stores with Christmas decorations and clothes set up, I feel a little intimidated. Have we forgotten about Thanksgiving and all of the delicious food that we are able to eat?
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because of all of the food, but it seems as if Thanksgiving is just a stop on the way to Christmas for some people.
As someone who is employed at a store in the mall, I see Christmas coming at different times. For example, I have seen the LEGO store with a Christmas tree decoration up the day after Halloween, the clothing store I work in was already setting up Christmas clothes for people to buy, Target has a Christmas table set up with reindeer decorations around it and I have already begun receiving emails about Christmas specials for certain stores.
I do not mind Christmas coming a little early, but should we not wait until Thanksgiving is over? I feel like Black Friday would be a great time to start playing Christmas music to get people in the mood of sharing and happiness since it is the biggest shopping day of the year.
Christmas is an important part of my religion, but Thanksgiving is an important part of our country’s remembrance of the ancestors who traveled over. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to the ones we love and care for and be thankful for what we have, and I think that we, as a country, have forgotten about that meaning. Tweets have also shown that people go straight from celebrating Halloween to Christmas. People have tweeted pictures from Snapchats of them decked out in Halloween gear on Oct. 31 to Christmas decorations on Nov. 1.
Christmas lights are one of my favorite parts about the holiday season. As I was driving around this past weekend, I saw a few houses already lit up with some lights. I guess some people love the holiday season so much they just cannot wait to start decorating.
