Christmas is my favorite holiday. It’s my favorite time of the year because starting December 1st, everything and everyone gets ready for celebrating with friends and family. But I can’t figure out why Thanksgiving has become so overshadowed by Christmas. Thanksgiving Day is lots of fun. Every college student appreciates the week of Thanksgiving Break. I love when my family and I watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, eat way too much, and watch football. I don't mind seeing some festive Christmas things every now and again during November, but we don't give Thanksgiving its time to shine.
For starters, I think Starbucks is a big perpetrator of kicking Thanksgiving to the curb. We go crazy for pumpkin spice lattes way to early in my opinion, and by the time we are halfway into November they bring out the red holiday cups and the winter drink menu. Make a Thanksgiving frappucino and I’ll be happy.
I really want someone to explain this one to me. We all know malls start setting up big Christmas trees as soon as they can, but why do they hire a Santa to sit there for a whole two months leading up to Christmas? That’s so strange, and its not like kids are excited to sit on a stranger’s lap and have cameras temporarily blind them. That whole Santa in the mall thing should go away.
I think it is downright wrong that our society has made it acceptable to start Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving night. You all realize that people are dragged out of enjoying their turkey and their company to ring up your flat screen TV you got for 40 dollars cheaper, right? That’s not right. Black Friday is meant for Friday, not Thursday. That’s the end of my Thanksgiving rant, and I must say it was therapeutic. I want to wish everyone (except those of you who go out shopping the Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day) a Happy Thanksgiving!