Thursday, November 7, 2013

Things That Annoy Me Thursday: Decorating For Christmas NOW?

"I already decorated my house for Christmas!" my friend told me enthusiastically.

I looked around in confusion. "I'm sorry. Did I sleep for a month? Is Thanksgiving already over?" I mean, I like to sleep, but holy crap, did I sink into some odd coma? I did consume a lot of Halloween candy. Perhaps that put me into a long ass slumber.

"No, silly. We just LOVE Christmas!"

Well, you know, so do I, but decorating for Christmas now seems too soon. I've already been annoyed with the holiday commercials and the Christmas music in the stores. I'm not a Grinch, I promise. I just feel like we should celebrate one holiday at a time. Let's get through Thanksgiving and then get into the Christmas spirit.

So many of my Facebook friends have already decorated their homes as well. They've posted pictures and I'm like, "Lovely home!" while thinking, "Am I the only one who feels like it's too soon?" Even Natalie is confused. There are some homes who are already ready for Santa Claus with lights and inflatables out front and she's like, "But it's not even Thanksgiving yet." When she sees a Christmas commercial she sighs and goes, "It's not even THANKSGIVING YET, K-Mart! Hey, what's K-Mart anyway?" That's what half of the US population probably wants to know, Natalie.

I am looking forward to Christmas. I can't wait to lug our tree out. I even got one of those Creepy Elf on the Shelf thingies even though I swore I'd never get one. (I got it for cheap on Amazon.) But I'm going to pig out on turkey first. And then I'll go into our garage and pull out all of our holiday boxes and hope that I'm not squished. (I'm sort of a pack rat. Tom calls it hoarding. I call it preserving memories. There's a difference.)

29 comments:

  1. Are K-mart closed down. But I do agree it to early

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  2. Poor Thanksgiving, it always gets ignored :(

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  3. I posted something about this on Facebook when I saw my first Chrismas commercial on October 29th, which I find ridiculous. As someone who LOVES Thanksgiving, I hate that we seem to be glossing right over it and heading straight to Christmas. For some reason, this year seems even worse than others.

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  4. I feel the same way! I was looking at Halloween stuff a few days before Halloween, and in the next aisle they had Christmas stuff. I couldn't believe it! I am not decorating my house for Christmas until Thanksgiving is over. I'm a one holiday at a time type of person ;D

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  5. Two nights ago when I was picking up our son from basketball practice, we saw a house with Christmas lights! OMgosh!

    Because I do a lot of work with retailers, I typically set up their stores before Thanksgiving and then customers will come in and shoot me annoying looks and say "before Thanksgiving?!?" to which I'll have to be nice and respond with a "yes…"

    The insanity continues, next year you'll probably be drinking egg nog with your Halloween candy. Merry Christmas!! ;)

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  6. You're not alone. My fall decorations are still up and will stay up until the day after the day after Thanksgiving. The neighbors already have Christmas decorations out, and I shake my head every time I go by.

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  7. We have our house lights up, but we won't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. We only have them up because we have a company install them (PNW house on a hill and two floors of 9' ceilings means we hire someone) and we get a discounting they come in October to do it. I may start planning my decorations, wrapping stuff etc now, or earlier, but we won't put anything up until after gobble gobble day :-). Granted we have to be all set in the whole wrapping department, like Dec 1, because we aren't staying home this year and I want our gifts under our tree for a photo lol! What can I say, I'm weird! And the we need to ship everything!

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  8. You are certainly not alone on this one! I love Christmas and all, but I don't start hauling out the decorations until the weekend after Thanksgiving is over either. Once I OD on turkey, then it's full steam ahead for putting up the tree and lights. But not before then.

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  9. To be fair...here in Canada, our Thanksgiving is over so naturally, a lot of people have started decorating. However, there has been some major controversy this year that you should not decorate for Christmas until after Rememberance Day, Nov 11, to honor the veterans...I have to admit, i started to pull my stuff out, but to my defence, only the winter stuff, my snowmen, my winter signs and stuff. No tree and no turning of lights on until at least Dec 1

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  10. Yesterday I ordered a holiday drink at Starbucks and the barista said, "Didn't you know? The day after Halloween is the new Christmas season!"
    Well I have seen it trending that way, but I'm so not ready.

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  11. I hate that it is earlier every year. I don't decorate until the day after Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving and I hate that it is overlooked.

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  12. I have learned to deal with the Christmas commercials on now. And I get a bit stunned when each year the stores have stuff out earlier and earlier. I like to shop, but really now. I think its rather stupid to decorate now. Think about it, your ornaments are going to be up over 2 months. Your going to have dusty ornaments. Do you really want to be wiping cobwebs off your xmas tree? Just more work for your self. At least wait till the long Thanksgiving weekend. AFTER you've stuffed yourself silly with Thanksgiving goodies!

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  13. The earliest I've ever done my Christmas decorating is the week of Christmas and that is only if we aren't going to be here for Thanksgiving.
    I can't imagine already having it out - and I love Christmas decorations!!!

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  14. Totally understand!!!I don't see what the rush is. I haven't even really begun to SHOP yet. However... over here in my part of the woods... they've been talking about starting Black Friday sales like now. This week. Or next week. And some stores are going to remain open on Thanksgiving day all day. Well, that's nice and all but... I still have two bagfuls of halloween candy to get through.

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  15. Poor Thanksgiving, always getting overlooked because of big brother Christmas. I like Christmas like the rest of them, and all the decorations and fun, but it gets its month AFTER Thanksgiving.

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  16. I'm with you...it's too early, people!! I am totally set with the day after Thanksgiving...but not until then. (And I am so glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't like the stupid elf and swore she'd never get one...then gave in!!) --Lisa

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  17. I tried to dash into our local drug store to get a last minute Halloween item last week AND.... all the Halloween stuff was already off the shelves and they were putting Christmas stuff up. ??????

    If it wasn't for that last bag of mini chocolate bars on sale....kids were gonna get candy canes in their trick or treat buckets!

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  18. I agree. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and he gets treated like the ugly step-sister. I don't do any decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Elf on the shelf is creepy!

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  19. I second this. My thought exactly. I feel like the only person that decorates for thanksgiving. I mean in half the stores you can't even find thanksgiving decorations. And dont even get me started on the stores opening for shopping on thanksgiving. Not okay. at all.

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  20. I have my house decorated for Thanksgiving. With all three of the lonely decorations that I have :)

    We have a strict Dec. 1st policy on Christmas decor here.

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  21. Totally agree with you. Thanksgiving just gets lost in the shuffle. I saw Christmas decorations in the stores BEFORE Halloween this year! WTHeck?? I will not decorate till after Turkey Day, period.

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  22. I hear you. I believe Christmas decorations should run from the day after Thanksgiving through the day after New Years. But I'm outnumbered in my house. Those Christmas decorations will be creeping in any second now. Tis the season...

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  23. In my complete ADHD opinion, it is ridiculous! Thanksgiving is a very important day that shouldn't be looked over because we aren't spending gobs of money! In fact, I think we are doing the right thing by not spending gobs of money! ARGH....

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  24. I am right there with you. I HATE how people rush Christmas. And it just gets earlier and earlier every year. When I was a kid, we didn't decorate our tree until just before Christmas Eve. My how times have changed. I for one don't put anything up until December 1.

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  25. It is way too early. They have all the stuff in the stores, so I end up looking at the stuff. I caught myself the other day & thought wait I don't want to buy Christmas stuff this early. I saw that someone mentioned egg nog. They actually had egg nog out here before Halloween. I got it in early October.

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  26. LOL the benefits of being in Canada, our Thanksgiving is in October. This year I saw Costco pull out the Christmas decor in July!!!

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  27. When we've already had snow, it certainly doesn't feel fall-ish around here anymore! We decorated for Christmas very early this year, but that was because I wanted one last year to enjoy our tree--on December 13 we're packing up the tree and a whole bunch of other stuff to give it to relatives because we're moving overseas. So I knew if we didn't set it up early we wouldn't think it was worth it to set it up at the normal time for just a few days.

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  28. We only have KMarts here in the Keys - yeah, no Wal Mart or Target - I'm deprived!! LOL

    But yeah, I hate it when people start decorating for Christmas before December. I love Thanksgiving!! Why must people feel the need to pass over it?

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  29. Absolutely! Christmas is ruining Thanksgiving! http://conservativesdrinkgoodbeertoo.blogspot.com/2013/11/christmas-is-ruining-thanksgiving.html

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