Every year, it seems like Christmas comes earlier and earlier. With stores putting up holiday decorations for sale, the giant lawn balloons, and even just sectioning off a part of the store for this holiday as early as the week before Halloween. Although I do enjoy all the things that go with Christmas, this year is when I want to draw the line.
Christmas items should not make their way to the shelves until mid to late October, as there are still two major holidays before--Halloween and Thanksgiving. Now as stores start to put away their fall decorations and put the overstock candy on sale in a few days, they should be putting up their Thanksgiving decorations but they aren't. Places like the Walmart a few minutes away from campus has already done the sectioning off and put up Christmas lights, fake trees, and even put on music in the separate section of the store. Meanwhile there is only maybe one or two small sections for Thanksgiving.
If I was brought in to fix this issue, I would start by taking down any sign of Christmas. Not because I want to be a Scrooge but because it is just overkill to start this early. Start putting up Christmas stuff for consumers to see and buy maybe a week before Thanksgiving. Keep the music off until after Thanksgiving when it is actually time for people to start preparing and decorating.
One other thing that I would want squashed would be the holiday commercials such as the Rent-a-Center one during the NBA games and the Duracell one that I personally have seen pop up now and then. This is way to early to show this stuff and should be aired closer to the end of November and early December when people are actually getting prepared for the holiday's by buying gifts.
So, even though I know none of this will happen since Christmas like other major holidays is now seen as a major source of cash for big corporations, I will be sitting here ignoring any signs of holidays that are no where close on the calendar eating my half priced candy and getting ready for a feast on Thanksgiving.
