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I am a firm believer in <i>"home for the holidays" </i> with a traditional turkey dinner.
I would never go to a restaurant on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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I'm all for people getting their shopping done early, if that is an important aspect of the season for them. There are sales being conducted all throughout the year, and many offer far better deals than the After-Thanksgiving Sales. If an item is on sale in February and you know someone would like it as a gift, why not purchase it then and store it away until December? You could have the majority of your shopping done before Halloween and have saved a lot more money in the process. Plus I think it would be better for the economy if spending were to be spread out more evenly over the course of the year. There would be no need to ruin the Thanksgiving weekend.
Of course, this requires planning and thinking ahead, which wouldn't work because too many people make purchases on impulse. As hard as we try, there will still be the procrastinators who wait until December 23 to buy gifts.
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<i>"November is too early for stores to advertise for Christmas."</i>
I've been trying to get this point across for some time now.
Christmas should be a special time of the year. It becomes trivialized and routine when all of the hype starts in September and October. Stores should not put up "Christmas" decorations before December 1. Radio stations should not switch to a 24-hour "Christmas" music format in November (a local "classic hits" station just did this over the weekend. And it's the same limited playlist that will be heard <i>ad nauseum </i> for the next six weeks). The Hallmark Channel should not be airing "Christmas" programming during the miserable summer.
By December 24 everyone is so sick of this stuff that they wish the holidays were over. I have actually heard people express this sentiment. How sad.
You may have noticed that I put "Christmas" in quotes. This is because what is being promoted here is materialism, greed and profit rather than the holiday.
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An excellent example of how to decorate. It's sad you won't be home to enjoy it.
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Christmas is a special time of year. We should not be seeing these ads, movies, decorations or hearing the music before December 1. All of this oversaturation trivializes and cheapens the holiday experience.
By the time December 25 arrives, everyone is so sick of all the hype, some of which has been going on since October. I was at the Home Depot on October 1 and they were already taking down the Halloween decorations in their seasonal section and unboxing "Christmas" stuff. I have actually heard people remark in mid-December that they will be glad when the holidays are over. How sad.
One thing I will never comprehend is the Hallmark Channel with it's "Christmas in July" programming. Who wants to watch "Christmas" movies during the middle of the miserable summer heat?
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There are a few houses still displaying items which could be classified as "autumn" decorations. Scarecrows, pumpkins, and the like are associated with the harvest season, which can be applied to both Halloween and Thanksgiving. One house down the street has a large inflatable turkey next to the driveway.
In general, Thanksgiving decorations are rare; things seem to go from Halloween directly to "Christmas," skipping over Thanksgiving Day. We shouldn't be hearing about "Christmas" before December 1.
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When I hear it I turn the station.
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That's a valid interpretation but it still doesn't justify the constant overplaying of it.
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"Last Christmas" is one of the worst "holiday" songs ever released. It's about a failed attempt at a relationship, not about the holiday. Replace the lyrics <i>"last Christmas" </i> with something else like <i>"last summer" </i> or <i>"last April" </i> and it doesn't change the character of the song. What they sing about could take place anytime of the year. Just because the Wham! version added sleigh bells doesn't make it a "Christmas" tune.
How this became so popular is beyond me. I thought by the mid-1980s it would have become forgotten and consigned to the trash bin of pop music. Yet now there are versions by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor and many others.
This drivel needs to be removed from every playlist.
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Two critically-acclaimed made-for-TV movies came out in 1971: <i>Brian's Song </i> and <i>Duel</i>.
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I do the exact same thing. There are many sales being conducted all throughout the year. I have purchased gifts as early as February and stored them until December.
If more people would do this they would save a lot more money and not have to deal with unnecessary stress during this special time of year.
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Christmas is not about materialism. I keep gift-giving to a minimum and don't ask for things for myself.
I keep an eye open for sales all throughout the year; if I see something on sale that I know someone would like as a gift, I will purchase it and store it away until December. I have found potential gifts as early as February. I find better deals this way and can have most of my shopping done before Halloween.
I avoid malls during this time of year. The only shopping I do in December involves perishable items which have expiration dates.
If more people would shop this way instead of waiting for Thanksgiving weekend and its bogus "greatest sales event of all time," they would save a lot more money and have less stress during what should be a festive time of year.
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<i>Pieces of April</i> (2003)
Although it's a TV special rather than a movie, it deserves mention: <i>A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving</i> (1973)
It's sad that this holiday gets so little mention. The minute Halloween ends the "Christmas" advertising dam breaks and we are inundated with all of this "Black Friday" rubbish. How ironic that a day set aside for being grateful has been supplanted by the manufactured need for more and more unnecessary (and often unwanted) material goods. You can "thank" the retailers, the advertising industry and the media for this.
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Halloween was ruined when the U.S. Congress extended that pointless Daylight Savings Time into November, and Canada followed suit. There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing for this, believing it would increase the sales of holiday treats. They forgot one important point: Halloween activities take place <b>after dark</b>. With the clocks set incorrectly, kids lost a whole hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when Halloween fell on a weeknight with school the following day.
The "candy tampering" paranoia has been around for decades and is mostly another urban legend. Actual instances of this are extremely rare. You may find this article interesting:
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/menus/candy-tampering.htm
I had a total of 19 trick-or-treaters this year. That was it. Fewer houses are being decorated for Halloween these days, too. Out of curiosity I walked to the end of the block and over to the following street. Most of the houses were dark. Years ago almost the entire block would have been lit up with kids everywhere.
It's sad that fewer people seem to care about the holidays anymore.
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Thank you.
We need a holiday season, a special time of year to look forward to. Running in constant high gear 24/7/365 isn't healthy and leads to burnout. There should be a rhythm to life with days for working and days for celebrating. The latter is becoming less common courtesy of greedy corporations, the advertising industry and the media. It's all about profit.
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It's a film reference: <spoiler><i>Halloween III: Season of the Witch</i> (1982)</spoiler>
I wouldn't promote Saint Patrick's Day before March 1.
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Happy Happy Halloween 🎃, Halloween 🎃, Halloween 🎃...
<i>It's almost time, kids... the clock is ticking... and don't forget to wear your masks!</i>
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Interesting. I thought a lot of the Halloween traditions had their origins in the U.K. and Ireland. Is the U.K. also experiencing the trend where an increasing number of people no longer care about holidays, and see them solely as a money-grabbing opportunity?
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You are fortunate. In North America we have another week of this Daylight Savings Time nonsense. In 2007, the U.S. Congress extended it into November, and Canada followed suit. This ruined Halloween.
There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing for this, believing it would increase the sales of holiday treats. They forgot one important point: Halloween events take place <b>after dark</b>. With the clocks set incorrectly, the kids lost a whole hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when the holiday fell during the week with school the next day.
Once again another holiday has been destroyed by corporate greed. These companies must have lost a lot of sales in October because we are now seeing Halloween candy displays up in stores as early as July.
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I'm a Lacey Chabert fan, too. The only reason why I've ever watched a Hallmark film was because it starred a favorite actress. Despite this I still wasn't able to finish these movies. They're all too formulaic and bland.
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