Christmas in January?
Last 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…
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
Sugar, it’s important to remember that commercial Christmas may end on the 26th (the one for shoppers), but real Christmas is 12 days long - you know, like the song? Dec 25th is Day 1, and Jan 6th is the 12th day. You’re supposed to leave stuff up until then. In my home town we take down the trees and burn them in a big bonfire on 12th night (the 5th). Anything after that is, well, sad.
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Did somebody take a dump in your stocking or something? I wish the lights (not the santas, inflatable crap and xmas music) could stay up year-round.
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
The only thing I have a problem with are those big inflatable ornaments that people put outside. Namely, those giant inflatable snow-globes. Who in there right mind thinks that crap actually looks good? Times are tough, you should be trying to increase the value of your home… not lower it.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Great post! I agree with you. I remember seeing a house in March of last year that still had their Christmas decorations up on the house and a snow globe in the yard. What a disgrace. Personally, I’d give a grace period until New Years to take them down, but I fully agree that people should start to put that in motion starting on the 26th.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Kelly and Becca,
Just stopping back to say hi.
I mentioned your blog today in one of my own blog posts. I like your site and have encouraged my readers to check it out as well. Hope you don’t mind.
http://theconstantcomplainer.com/?p=86
Thanks,
CK
February 8th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I’d like to bitch about no new content in quite some time…