Yesterday afternoon I thought I saw something disturbing on the front of the Foster Wheeler building near my office: Giant Christmas wreaths.
The problem: It was Halloween.
It's a little early for that, isn't it?? I seem to remember Thanksgiving as a point at which commercial buildings would decorate.
Foster Wheeler gets coal in her pantyhose for jumping the tasteful decoration gun.
2 comments:
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year -- so let's make it last three times as long! But if you think about it, all that crap in the stores is just the commercial side of the observance, which really is unnecessary anyway. "Holiday" comes from "holy day" -- and that's about what you believe and cherish, not how much you spend or how (ahem) big and shiny your tree may be.
You are correct about Thanksgiving once being the point at which the tinsel appeared. I can't pinpoint exactly when the massive sea-change happened to bring Santa out of hiding by Columbus Day, but it's recent. Within the last 10-15 years, maybe?
I think I noticed the shift to pre-Thanksgiving starting about 20 years ago, but could constrain it about 15 when I was in college. 10 years ago is when I started routinely thinking "isn't it a little early for this?"...and have found it in-my-face overwhelming in the last 5 or so. I have not lived up North for about 8 years, so I am not sure if it is regional to TX, especially Southern TX, or nationwide (more inclined to think it is...).
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