Christmas too soon?
November 20th, 2008 by 
Alica
I’ve already attended my first holiday party of the season, and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.
Christmas merchandise is in all the stores already.
Is it too soon?
I make many of my gifts, so I have to start early. It’s hard to create ornaments in time if the cards of jingle bells, for example, don’t appear in the craft stores until into December.
Lots of people put their tree up on Thanksgiving Day or shortly thereafter. If you’re in the market for a new (artificial) tree, it’s hard to put it up on Thanksgiving if it doesn’t appear in the stores until December.
And it’s always nice to get the lights hung on the house before the real cold weather sets in.
But is it all too much, too soon? Can we maintain the Christmas spirit when Santa and Rudolph are among the Trick-or-Treaters?
The Argus Leader had this question as an online poll question Saturday. Out of 1,339 responses, 85.1 percent said yes, Christmas comes too early at stores. And 14.9 percent said no, it doesn’t. Where do you fit in there?
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November 20th, 2008 at 9:57 am
It does seem that Christmas appears in the stores earlier and earlier each year. On one had it is rather annoying as it diminishes the “true” Christmas as we become bored with it all. On the other hand, I have to admit I do shop for gifts earlier too. It is nice to get it out of the way. I probably end up spending more too. Just the reason why stores probably start putting out everything so early.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Pretty soon ‘Black Friday’ will be the Friday after the Fourth of July, and I will start shopping then, and when Christmas rolls around I will forget where I hid all the presents I bought in July, and I will have to start all over again. I say pass a law that says no retailer can start playing Christmas music until December 1st, and no retailer can mention the word Christmas, Yule, Noel, Santa, etc. until December 1st, and that will save me a lot of money and time and maybe I will like the Christmas season again.
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