Thanksgiving comes before Chirstmas

hollymoua · 2013-11-14 19:56:00

Hey all so i have been going around town shopping for some stuff when all of a sudden... I SEE CHIRSSTMAS ITEMS ON THE SALES FLOOR!!!!!!!!!

I was shocked because...

1st: thankgiving comes first after chirstmas so why put the chistmas stuff out so early

2nd: yea yea i know that black firday is coming up and people get their presents on that day but still....it would be nice to see some thanksgiving stuff rather then chistmas

3rd: dont you think that it weird to celabrate 3 holidays that is almost close together (thanksgiving,chirstmas,new years)?? come to think of it, it almost like i'm spending too mush money on these 3 holdiays lol

snortmort · 2013-11-15 02:06:53

Christmas stuff usually seems to come out as soon as Halloween is over, and sometimes even before. This past summer, we saw snowsuits and Christmas decorations at Costco in July!

rheasilvia · 2013-11-15 07:35:33

Well, in Poland we don't celebrate Thanksgiving and we also don't really celebrate Halloween. We have the All Saint's Day on Nov 1st and we celebrate it by visiting graves of our deceased relatives. We decorate the graves with flowers, wreaths and candles so shops are full of them. And then just after that we get the Christmas decorations.

But what really surprised me this year, and even offended a little, was the fact that I've already seen a Christmas-related advert on TV! It always used to be Coca-Cola's ad with their catchy "Holidays Are Coming" song that was the first one and now some other company decided to outrun them. I don't really know what to think of it. My world is broken... ;)

anyamalfoy · 2013-11-15 13:39:32

Same here ReaSilvia. It's usually the Coca Cola advert that starts Christmas for me. Only everyone else has put theirs on first. It's sad.

snortmort · 2013-11-15 15:00:37

Rhea - I really like the sound of that All Saints Day holiday - a far more pleasant celebration than Halloween. All Saints Day sounds like a sweet remembrance of loved ones who have passed on, whereas Halloween is more of a celebration of death and gore (and somehow, candy got mixed up with that) and it's so gross. Wish we had that here in North American instead of Halloween!

subway1 · 2013-11-15 17:02:19

In Canada, Thanksgiving is in October, but still, we always see Christmas stuff out...

harajukukiki · 2013-11-16 04:04:52

snortmort wrote:
Rhea - I really like the sound of that All Saints Day holiday - a far more pleasant celebration than Halloween. All Saints Day sounds like a sweet remembrance of loved ones who have passed on, whereas Halloween is more of a celebration of death and gore (and somehow, candy got mixed up with that) and it's so gross. Wish we had that here in North American instead of Halloween!

Actually, Halloween was originally an "All Saints Day." There's also a Mexican holiday called Day of the Dead that serves the same purpose as All Saints day and it's celebrated on October 31 and November 1st and 2nd. All three holidays are connected and come from the same origin.

Fo' real, if you want a holiday like that, don't be afraid to celebrate with your local Hispanics.

campanella · 2013-11-16 06:35:15

I know that feel. I'm still trying to get used to the advertisements appearing as early as September (July to me is UNACCEPTABLEEEEE!!!). In fact, the shopping centers around my city were already decorating the palm trees with lights in October. Black Friday is starting as early as 8pm Thanksgiving Day in my city. What's the rush?

I don't mind tuning in to the radio to christmas jingles, watching Hallmark movies, baking cookies or drinking eggnog by the kilotons, but can we all just slow down? It's like the whole country's patience runs shorter every year.

As I wrote this, I heard the Hershey's 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' commercial was playing on my mom's television.

rheasilvia · 2013-11-16 10:42:11

snortmort wrote:
Rhea - I really like the sound of that All Saints Day holiday - a far more pleasant celebration than Halloween. All Saints Day sounds like a sweet remembrance of loved ones who have passed on, whereas Halloween is more of a celebration of death and gore (and somehow, candy got mixed up with that) and it's so gross. Wish we had that here in North American instead of Halloween!

Well, this holiday also got pretty commercialised, as actually most of the things these days. The candles and wreaths are getting more ridiculous and expensive every year. And I can still remember that when I was little lots of people used to make the wreath themselves. Now nobody has time for that anymore.

But yet I believe a person can celebrate whatever they want and whatever way they want. We still can be honest about our believes :)

harajukukiki wrote:
Actually, Halloween was originally an "All Saints Day." There's also a Mexican holiday called Day of the Dead that serves the same purpose as All Saints day and it's celebrated on October 31 and November 1st and 2nd. All three holidays are connected and come from the same origin.

Fo' real, if you want a holiday like that, don't be afraid to celebrate with your local Hispanics.

Yes, they all come from some ancient and pagan holidays that were "borrowed" by Christians.

laurabow · 2013-11-17 04:34:45

campanella wrote:
Black Friday is starting as early as 8pm Thanksgiving Day in my city. What's the rush?

6pm here. In a few more years, stores will just be opening at their regular time on Thanksgiving morning.

Which will probably just lead to a pre-Thanksgiving staying-open-24 hours-Black Wednesday or something like that.

lady0filia · 2013-11-21 06:19:43

Yes, it's like Thanksgiving Day (here in America) is completely passed over and forgotten. Until you turn the TV on on the fourth Thursday of November and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is on. Woo! Even then, the floats are more for Christmas...
I love Christmas, but it's beginning to be that it never ends since it 'starts' so early. When it's over, the hype just starts back up again. And let's not talk about the commercialism involved, ugh. My beloved Christmas hardly feels like Christmas anymore...When you get too much of something, it doesn't feel special anymore.
And does anyone find it annoying when they show all the Christmas shows throughout December, but when Christmas Day comes...Nothing? At all. Where I live, the kind of shows/movies they have on that day are usually violent and have nothing to do with Christmas.

(I can't stand to see how Halloween has become, with all the gory decorations and such. For me, Halloween means black cats, pumpkins/Jack O'Lanterns, cute ghosts, and silly (or pretty) witches. Stories say that America's Halloween came from a Celtic event when the spirits of the dead would walk the earth on the eve of All Saint's Day, and so people would dress in grotesque masks to scare any demons away.)

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