Summer then Christmas?

It feels like Christmas is coming earlier and earlier with every year. I’m sure some of it is in my mind but it seems like this year, marketers are jumping the gun. It’s a week before Thanksgiving so it seems normal to put the Christmas CD into play and breaking out the shiny tinsel. But before Halloween?

Shopping for a Halloween costume last minute as always (grad school takes over your existence), I saw Christmas lights, decorations, moving Santa figurines, and green and red knee-high stockings. Moving Christmas into October?!?! This means that the Christmas season takes over a quarter of our year. Spring, summer, autumn, and Christmas. No longer are we celebrating the changing of the leaves and the signaling of preparation for winter. We are moving our shorts and tank tops to shortage and replacing those items with wreaths and flashy light shows to show up the neighbors.

Trust me, I am a Midwestern girl who loves the sight of fresh snow and singing Christmas carols as much as the next girl. But in October? I want the chance to enjoy the leaves changing and carve my pumpkin in peace without having to worry about what I’m going to buy my father who has everything he could possibly want or need.

The companies’ desire to get into the black with this current economy is important but Christmas in October? Give me back my time to watch the changing of the leaves. I will be out spending what little of the money I have like everyone else but it will be in the end of November and beginning of December, like it should be. Movement to Save Autumn and End of Year sanity? Sign me up.