Christmas - Taking Over Time Itself

As of November 15th Starbucks began using their festive holiday paper cups, playing Christmas music, and offering their holiday-themed drinks (Many contain peppermint. Avoid the eggnog lattes, however, I recommend gingerbread lattes, as they actually taste like liquid Christmas, or, as N puts it 'Liquid Death.') This is a sure sign that Christmas has now overstepped Thanksgiving by at least two full weeks.

When I was a child I had the entire collection of Berenstain Bear books. The Christmas book mentions that, "The Thanksgiving decorations had barely been taken down when the Christmas decorations went up at the Bear County Mall." (...or something equally cheesy.) The book was published around 1987. This means that the Christmas "season" has been starting about one day earlier each year for the last 15 years. By 2020, Christmas will overtake Halloween.

Granted, many early-bird retailers have already started putting up Christmas decorations in mid-October. By 2020, these gun-jumpers will have their stockings hung by September 1st.

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November 18, 2002 04:44 PM, Maggie said:

Back to school special on Christmas ornaments, buy (current year + 3) Christmas decorations, now 50% off!

November 19, 2002 09:39 AM, Erin said:

In 300 years the Christmas retail season will be all year round.

ALso, I forgot to mention the main reason I posted this:

Just outside my office building there is a row of small decidous trees that they put Christmas lights on every year. They've been putting the lights up over the past couple days - but the thing is, the little oragne leaves have not actually fallen off the trees yet.

In fact, the act of putting up the lights strips some of the leaves off the branches. Ridiculous!

November 19, 2002 09:40 AM, Erin said:

Auug! This text window is too wide! I can't resize the box! The scroll is all messed up!

November 19, 2002 09:41 AM, Erin said:

Damn you moveable type!!

I guess I'll try to fix this.

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