Christmas in January?
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Last time I checked, Christmas was December 25th. A one day only event. And I do understand that in the days and weeks leading up to Christmas that it is fun to decorate, put up a tree, hang Christmas lights, etc. I love driving around on Christmas Eve and looking at all of the decorations and lights and other bits of festiveness that people have put out. The purpose of all of this though is to help build the excitement and Christmas spirit in people, the culmination of which is Christmas Day. Christmas is not a season however….it is one day. No matter how much retailers want you to believe that Christmas starts in August….it doesn’t. It starts on December 25th and ends on December 25th - just as it did last year and just as it will in all the years to come. There should really be no confusion. My point in all of this being….once Christmas is over (meaning 12:01 on the 26th)…take down your lights, remove Santa from your windows, take down the tree, turn off the awful Christmas music. People try to rationalize with “well it is still Christmas week, I’ll leave them up through the weekend” and then “well New Years is around the corner, I will leave them up to celebrate that too” and then “well it is still cold enough outside to feel like Christmas, I should probably leave them up” and finally “well it is already May, no point in taking it all down now!” There should be no grace period….December 26th everything comes down…PERIOD! If anyone notices their lights and decorations missing it is because I have taken matters into my own hands…