How early is too early for Christmas?

AndreaTamira wrote: »

Well, Advent kinda starts the season. So, 29th November this year.

I refuse to do anything that is related to Christmas before that point.

But, if you like to start earlier, knock yourself out. Have fun, there isn't enough of that around as is.

Eating my own words, here. There is a small German christmas market in my city in New Zealand next Saturday and I really want to go. ( because I miss my Christmas Markets, and also it's kinda funny in a sad way I will go to one half around the globe while all the ones in Germany are cancelled.)

So, guess the Christmas season is gonna start a day early for me.

I LOVE Christmas. Anything before the day after Thanksgiving is too early.

Also -- is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

I always feel bad for Thanksgiving. Whenever I'd walk through Target during the holidays, they went straight from Halloween to Christmas, leaving maybe one end cap for Thanksgiving stuff.

It deserves more!

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

glassyo wrote: »

I always feel bad for Thanksgiving. Whenever I'd walk through Target during the holidays, they went straight from Halloween to Christmas, leaving maybe one end cap for Thanksgiving stuff.

It deserves more!

I wish we in the US would switch to a mid-October Thanksgiving like our Canadian neighbors. The weather would be better, and we'd have a longer gap to Christmas.

I've wanted to do a Thanksgiving more like the first Thanksgiving (meaning the one with Pilgrims and American Indians in 1623, I know there were "thanksgiving" type events before and that it was not a yearly holiday until much later) for ages, as I thought it would be fun and different to try to make dishes with that constraint. No one else thought that was a good idea (although my sister thought it was interesting), and so I never did, but this year since it will be tiny, we are doing it (but not being strict in some respects, for example, I don't have flint corn, so we are using sweet corn). Main dish is venison. Because of this I've been researching what was available, and realized that since it was in October, different types of fresh produce would have been available than can actually be harvested in November. October makes more sense in general if one is in a colder climate anyway.

I found this interesting: "From the time of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln, the date of observance varied from state to state. The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century, coinciding with, and eventually superseding the holiday of Evacuation Day (commemorating the day the British exited the United States after the Revolutionary War)."

I did know this: "Modern Thanksgiving was proclaimed for all states in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Influenced by Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for approximately 40 years advocating an official holiday, Lincoln set national Thanksgiving by proclamation for the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war. Because of the ongoing Civil War, a nationwide Thanksgiving celebration was not realized until Reconstruction was completed in the 1870s."

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

lemurcat2 wrote: »

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

glassyo wrote: »

I always feel bad for Thanksgiving. Whenever I'd walk through Target during the holidays, they went straight from Halloween to Christmas, leaving maybe one end cap for Thanksgiving stuff.

It deserves more!

I wish we in the US would switch to a mid-October Thanksgiving like our Canadian neighbors. The weather would be better, and we'd have a longer gap to Christmas.

I've wanted to do a Thanksgiving more like the first Thanksgiving (meaning the one with Pilgrims and American Indians in 1623, I know there were "thanksgiving" type events before and that it was not a yearly holiday until much later) for ages, as I thought it would be fun and different to try to make dishes with that constraint. No one else thought that was a good idea (although my sister thought it was interesting), and so I never did, but this year since it will be tiny, we are doing it (but not being strict in some respects, for example, I don't have flint corn, so we are using sweet corn). Main dish is venison. Because of this I've been researching what was available, and realized that since it was in October, different types of fresh produce would have been available than can actually be harvested in November. October makes more sense in general if one is in a colder climate anyway.

I found this interesting: "From the time of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln, the date of observance varied from state to state. The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century, coinciding with, and eventually superseding the holiday of Evacuation Day (commemorating the day the British exited the United States after the Revolutionary War)."

I did know this: "Modern Thanksgiving was proclaimed for all states in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Influenced by Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for approximately 40 years advocating an official holiday, Lincoln set national Thanksgiving by proclamation for the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war. Because of the ongoing Civil War, a nationwide Thanksgiving celebration was not realized until Reconstruction was completed in the 1870s."

If you want it to be SUPER-authentic, you'll introduce a deadly disease to people who have no immunity to it....

Oh....wait.....


Sorry....dark humor is my jam today.

Okay, big gathering back on!

I also switch up a harvest wreath for a Christmas one, but I'm having the Christmas one delivered tomorrow, so may go ahead and put it up. I also have some Christmassy hanging baskets that I will put up on my front porch (the flowers that were in the ones currently up are dead, so they need to go).

I hate the chore of putting up outdoor lights, but if not for that I'd have them up at least as of the time change, as I see them as as much about it being dark way too early and adding some counter to that as Christmas. Last year I didn't get the lights up until mid December, but I'll try to do it this weekend this year.

My husband bought me an olympic bar for Christmas and I have started using it already since the gyms are closed. We had planned to be away for Christmas but that may now be scuppered. May still not decorate as I hate going into the loft to get the decorations.

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

If starting Christmas early makes you happy, then you should do it.

For me, in a normal year, it has to be after Thanksgiving...usually I put up the tree the first week of December.

This year, everything Christmas is going to depress me, because I know I won't be able to see all my family and celebrate like we usually do. I'm not doing well with the "everything is normal" crowd.

I'm really sorry for my comments above because I see now how they sounded. I absolutely understand your feelings - I am very sad about not being able to see my family in person this year. One of the ways I manage my anxiety is to adopt a "fake it til you make it" attitude about some things, I know it can be grating. I wasn't being thoughtful when I typed that above.

Please don't feel sorry, I know exactly what you meant. We're all dealing with this in different ways, and I get the mindset of keeping at least the appearance of a positive attitude. I wish it worked for me, and I certainly don't blame you if it works for you. I should probably stop going into these holiday threads.

I'm just more stressed than usual today, for....reasons.

This is me this year:



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