Socially acceptable time to start putting up Christmas stuff

[OregonDucks]

I'll start this post by saying I love Christmas and I love the Christmas season. As I have gotten older the season goes by faster and faster. I know in what will feel like a blink of an eye I will look back at think I just posted about this and the season will be over. But it seems like the move to setting up Christmas decorations is happening sooner and sooner and at some point I think it has to stop.

Again, as someone who loves the Christmas season and understands it seems shorter and shorter each year, I have come to acceptance that around the week of Thanksgiving is when the decorations can start going up. I will accept the weekend before Thanksgiving. Typically what I do is the weekend before Thanksgiving is a handful of the decorations get put up around the house, probably get the lights up on the house, but after Thanksgiving is when we get the tree, and the rest of the big time Christmas decorations get put up.

But I am already seeing Christmas lights going up on houses. To me this seems a bit premature. I won't even touch on the stores moving to Christmas theme as I saw some doing so prior to Halloween, this is just for homes.

 

[dhoey]

Christmas is after Thanksgiving. Don't put your shit up till Friday.

 

[outofyourmind]

I heard Chirstmas music at Home Depot before Halloween.

 

[Deep Dish Pizza Goat]

Never. Christmas is a symbol of the patriarchy white supremacy society we live in.

 

[OregonDucks]

Never. Christmas is a symbol of the patriarchy white supremacy society we live in.

Oh boy, you guys lost, America has spoken, we are over this crap.

 

[PeoplesChicken]

You celebrate holidays in the appropriate sequence. Christmas after Thanksgiving and the like. You wouldn't celebrate Juneteenth in March now would you?

 

[PeoplesChicken]

Never. Christmas is a symbol of the patriarchy white supremacy society we live in.

You damned straight!

 

[OregonDucks]

You celebrate holidays in the appropriate sequence. Christmas after Thanksgiving and the like. You wouldn't celebrate Juneteenth in March now would you?

This is Christmas, not valentines day we are talking about. It's a bit bigger of a season.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Christmas is after Thanksgiving. Don't put your shit up till Friday.

You're not the boss of me.

We get our tree and decorate the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

 

[PeoplesChicken]

This is Christmas, not valentines day we are talking about. It's a bit bigger of a season.

Of course it is. But you still wait for the holiday preceding it to conclude before the decorating of the next

Trust me, you are going to need to agree with me on this

 

[PeoplesChicken]

You're not the boss of me.

We get our tree and decorate the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

You are Philistines!

 

[Deep Dish Pizza Goat]

Oh boy, you guys lost, America has spoken, we are over this crap.

 

[OregonDucks]

Of course it is. But you still wait for the holiday preceding it to conclude before the decorating of the next

Trust me, you are going to need to agree with me on this

I think it is totally acceptable to phase out the Fall season and Thanksgiving by the week of Thanksgiving. Not a complete move on, but starting to put up some of the decorations, putting up the exterior lights but not turning them on until after Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[PeoplesChicken]

I think it is totally acceptable to phase out the Fall season and Thanksgiving by the week of Thanksgiving. Not a complete move on, but starting to put up some of the decorations, putting up the exterior lights but not turning them on until after Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[Big Al Rogorson]

Thanksgiving night.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Of course it is. But you still wait for the holiday preceding it to conclude before the decorating of the next

Trust me, you need to agree with me on this

We used to do the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but it just made for one hell of an exhausting holiday weekend.

Wednesday - Thanksgiving prep
Thursday - Thanksgiving
Friday - celebrate brother-in-law's birthday
Saturday - Ohio State/Michigan game
Sunday - Christmas tree day

Then slam right into work Monday morning. It was just too much, so we pushed Christmas Tree Day up a week, because if we push it back, the better trees at the farm have already been taken.

 

[Mofo]

Christmas is after Thanksgiving. Don't put your shit up till Friday.

This. The day after Thanksgiving. It's bad enough that they can get put up before the month of December.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

You are Philistines!

Well, we also celebrate Hanukkah, which this year STARTS ON CHRISTMAS DAY. That's going to be a pain in the ass.

 

[OregonDucks]

I've got this old vintage Christmas Donald Duck light up statue that is an absolute staple in my house for Christmas. When that gets put out and plugged in it's when the Christmas season is officially upon us. Usually he is out anywhere from the weekend before Thanksgiving, to the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.

 

[PeoplesChicken]

We used to do the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but it just made for one hell of an exhausting holiday weekend.

Wednesday - Thanksgiving prep
Thursday - Thanksgiving
Friday - celebrate brother-in-law's birthday
Saturday - Ohio State/Michigan game
Sunday - Christmas tree day

Then slam right into work Monday morning. It was just too much, so we pushed Christmas Tree Day up a week, because if we push it back, the better trees at the farm have already been taken.

I can't believe I am talking to the same guy who has threatened and succeeded in closing down multiple gentleman's clubs because of their food sanitation code violations. Its like I am talking to a totally different person