I realised the watermark was over the text after making the meme. No one will remember this in three days so I dont give a shit.
Don’t get me wrong: I hate how consumerist Christmas is and how stores have started stocking Christmas decorations in September.
BUT
Living in America, the cutoff is Thanksgiving. Which does indeed cede part of the end of November to Christmas.
However, Halloween has encroached forward, pushed on by the goths. What started as merely Tim Burton fans has evolved. Krampusnacht has started to catch on as a more horror-themed holiday. So a lot of our Halloween decorations just stay up. And there’s no point on making a trip to the attic just to put stuff away so they stay out until the end of December with everything else.
Living in America, the cutoff is Thanksgiving. Which does indeed cede part of the end of November to Christmas.
Wrong and you should be ashamed
Once I started going to Dragon Con (Labor Day weekend), September also started feeling like Halloween season to me.
(It probably doesn’t help that more folks in my neighborhood put up decorations for Halloween than they do for Christmas, and start pretty early with them.)
For that reason, my Halloween decorations came down promptly on Nov 1. Maybe I should start decorating for Thanksgiving…
I swear I’ve seen Sabrina Carpenter in the Dec 1 outfit.
Is it not standard for every pop star idols rendition of “Santa Baby” for the ten thousandth time?
Am I the only one who always subconsciously mentally replaces “baby” in song titles/lyrics with “infant” to see how funny the result is?
You are absolutely not! I’m convinced that there are dozens of us around the world.
Also, I don’t just replace it in my head but while singing along as well. Oh, and I’m German, so I do simultaneous and extremely literal translations, replacing “baby” with “Kleinkind”, the German word for toddler. And yes, it’s hilarious every time.
Fuck the most capitalist of all holidays, and double fuck the awful music it forces on us every time we go into public starting mid-goddamn-November, and triple fuck the tacky decorations and power wasting lights.
power wasting lights.
To be fair, it’s all LEDs now, which consume very little power.
The dream of truly Griswoldian Christmas lights slips ever further from our grasp. Sure, we can blind the neighbors more easily than ever, but what’s the fun of that if you can’t take down the whole power grid along with it? 😞
