Okay, then, following are my arguments, and feel free to weigh in with your own.
Back in the day when most everyone bought real trees, they had to wait until mid-December to put them up, or they'd be a dried up mess by the time Christmas came around. Now that there are great looking, affordable fakies available for everyone, we aren't forced to wait. We can put them up as early as we want.
On the other hand, part of me feels a little grinchy about Christmas, and because people have come to expect my opinionated grumpiness and sarcasm, part of me wants people to think I don't care about the decorations. I don't want to be one of those people.
On the other hand, I really do care. I love it all, the lights, the ornaments, the packages and bows, the homemade candy (the one I can't wait for this year is the rice crispy caramels with the marshmallow in the middle made by Teresa), the music, ohhh the music! Let's get out the tree right now!
On the other hand, Christmas is about celebrating and honoring Christ's birth. It's about giving and re-committing, etc., and decorating with flashing lights, especially early, shifts the focus to commercialism.
On the other hand, is it really worth it to go through the four hour ordeal of hauling out all the glitter and stringing the lights and hanging the stockings with care, only to have to un-do the four hour ordeal two weeks later? If I'm going to spend the time, I want to enjoy it for at least a month.
On the other hand, bah humbug!
And there you have it. I'm a six-handed grinch!
Some say the day after Thanksgiving. Some eager folks say November 1st. I heard the first Christmas commercial on the radio weeks ago. So what's your take? When is it appropriate and why?
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