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November 09, 2007
a small rant
So, what, the second the clock struck midnight on Oct. 31st it became the countdown to Christmas? Who decided that? All the commercials are christmas commercials. I was at the mall yesterday and they had the train up and running and were working on Santa's stage, you know, where crying babies get to sit on his lap and have their picture taken. I'm not ready for Christmas. I love Christmas, but it was just Halloween for pete's sake. I want a little more fall enjoyment before giving it up to Winter and Christmas. My jack'o'lanterns are all up, but my pumpkins are still out and I'm going to ignore the sign at Wal-Mart declaring to all the stressed out world that there are only 46 days, 8 hours, 34 min and 41 sec...40 sec...39...
Rants | By adrienne | 03:24 PM
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I'm so with you, there! Somebody on my facebook is all "yay! Christmas is coming!", and it's driving me crazy. Let's get to Thanksgiving first, OK?
In another 10 years Christmas is going to come directly after "Back To School!" in August.
Posted by: Sara at November 13, 2007 07:28 AM
I used to start my Christmas season right after Halloween. In fact I was going to put my tree up before we go out of town for Thanksgiving, like I did last year.
BUT I listened to P. Steve's "12 days of Christmas" lecture from Oct 2006. If we were going to celebrate the one day, then all of this buildup seems okay. However, if you've got 12 days of celebrating to look forward to, then you can wait to "haul out the holly."
Posted by: emily at November 13, 2007 08:15 AM
Oh, it's all a marketing ploy. Buy now, buy sooner. Christmas begins on Dec 25 and runs to Jan 5. If we want to celebrate a holiday by the church throughout the ages and not the one devised by marketing execs, then we should spend the weeks before Christmas in sober reflection on Christ's second coming, not shopping or celebrating. Like Emily said, there's 12 days for that. We're putting our tree up on Dec 25 and holding a big Twelfth Night party on Jan 5.
Posted by: Matt at November 13, 2007 08:12 PM
Totally, Matt.
I have to say, the one thing that confuses me about all this Fox News "War On Christmas" B.S. is that if they were really trying to promote a Christian way of celebrating the holidays, they'd also point out that in Christianity, Christmas is from Dec. 25 through Jan 6 (and decorating should be done on Christmas Eve). Also that Christmas trees aren't actually a form of worship, and "Jingle Bells" isn't a hymn.
And that obsessive consumerism isn't a particularly Christian behavior -- really we should be giving to needy people, not "oh, crap, I have to get something for Uncle Mike... Ummm, maybe a novelty tie...?"
Instead it seems like all Bill O'Reilly et al want is some sort of capitalist theocracy where "Chanukah" is a dirty word.
Posted by: Sara at November 15, 2007 08:43 AM