Proposing a statute of limitations on Christmas trees
I am writing this on the 22nd of November. For those of you in the Excited States of America, that’s Thanksgiving week. For Canadians like me, that’s six weeks AFTER Thanksgiving. But I digress.
I was looking out my condominium window one night earlier this week and was startled to see the twinkly shape of Christmas trees in the majority of windows in the building next door.
Yep, more than a month before December 25, and the glitter has begun.
I’m used to this premature holiday-making in the commercial world. Costco replaces Halloween decorations and candy with Christmas ephemera round about October 15. Malls are (re)decorated soon after, and the Christmas ads on television start about the same time.
Apparently everyone is expected to be giving their loved ones cars, electronics and diamonds, by the way. In this economy? Not sure what planet these advertisers live on….
But I digress again.
It seems to me that the “kickoff” of the Christmas decorating season seems to have shifted to one of two trigger dates: either the weekend we change the clocks to Daylight Saving Time (subject of another rant on another day), or Halloween.
