A few weeks ago, Myranda Stephens posted a great blog about Thanksgiving getting no love, and stores moving right from Halloween stuff to Christmas stuff (http://community.whptv.com/blogs/myranda_stephens/archive/2006/11/06/1040110.aspx).
Well, I want to piggy-back off of that blog. I'm not going to talk about stores jumping the gun and rushing Christmas (however, I do wish it would slow down a bit - but, I understand how long it takes to get product out on the shelves). Rather, I'm going to talk about individuals rushing Christmas.
OK....here we go....
I take my dog for a good walk around our neighborhood every day. Last evening, I got a late-start on the walking her and we ended up pushing every last breath of daylight left. As we were making our rounds, I started to take notice of the number of homeowners in my neighborhood with Christmas lights already on their homes.
Now, before I start to go off on my opinions, let me put out a little disclaimer. I just put Christmas lights on my home yesterday, and I'm going to put them up at my parent's home this afternoon (I traditionally put them up right before Thanksgiving, or on Black Friday - depending on if it's raining or not). However, they are NOT lit yet - and won't be until at least Black Friday, if not closer to December 1st.
I completely understand people wanting to get the outside decorations up sooner, rather than later. Of course, being a weather guy, it's going to get a whole heck of a lot colder before it gets any warmer. But, can't we get through Thanksgiving before celebrating Christmas?
I dont know, but to me, it seems like this year people everywhere are turning their Christmas lights on sooner than ever before. I just feel bad for Tom The Turkey - he's really getting NO LOVE this year!
Oh well, this is America, and we should all do what we want, right? Including me, and me putting my opinions out there, but also not turing on my Chistmas lights until I want to (although, I must admit, it's pretty tempting to turn them on right away after putting all that work into setting everything up. Maybe that's why everyone's got their lights on? Hmmmm.).
No matter what....have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING and a GREAT holiday season!
