Even my kids, who LOVE Christmas, agree that is a bit much. We were riding home from Christmas shopping and saw through a window, a Christmas tree
up and decorated on November 10. Sorry but that is crazy, and that is coming from someone who loves the whole season.
While I love Christmas because everyone is home, and warm and happy, I think that Thanksgiving is a close second. If you begin celebrating Christmas before that, it takes away from the only holiday that is strictly about giving thanks. There are no gifts given but those from the heart (and to the stomach). Why dilute it?
Obviously, this household did not have any young children living in it to become crazed and excitable at the sight of a decorated tree for such a prolonged period of time. I couldn’t even use pine cleaner at my house for years for the same reason. Mass hysteria.
And besides that, if you start that early, your tree turns into a dry, crumbly mess that drops brown needles from a simple breeze when you walk by that are hard to vacuum up. And I am all about making housekeeping easier. Just ask the pine needles from last year still stuck in my rug.
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“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” ~ Burton Hills
3 responses so far ↓
1 grannyann // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:14 pm
That’s how I feel. Too soon. I finally, a few years ago, got a fake tree because I was sick of them drying out. They seemed to be dead 2 days after I put them up. They were cutting them too early.
2 Jessica B // Nov 13, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Maybe they didn’t take it down last year!
3 Coupon Codes // Nov 14, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I didn’t get my tree up until Christmas Eve last year! I’ll try to do better this year, but before Thanksgiving is just too early.
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