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In this satire article, Tessa will talk about people who celebrate Christmas too early.
People who celebrate christmas too early
People who celebrate christmas too early
By Tessa Hager
By Tessa Hager
It is that time of year again: The smell of snow is in the air, mittens and scarves are back in fashion, and Mariah Carey has defrosted to make her way back into our car stereos. While everything is Christmas right now, we all know (or maybe are) those people who are ready to break out their Christmas trees and inflatable Santas for their front yards on Nov. 1. Leaving friends confused and possibly even annoyed, these Christmas fanatics enjoy torturing the Thanksgiving-enjoyers with Christmas before any Halloween decorations have even been cleaned up.
While many people love Christmas, quite a few of us want to finish our Halloween candy first. On Nov. 1, most people still have their Halloween decorations set up outside their houses. We need to give people time to clean up and recover from Halloween before throwing a so-called “jolly” old man in their faces. Let us put Lewis (the famous not-a-Jack-o-lantern) in storage before pulling out the inflatable Santas. Let us finish eating all the Reece’s pumpkins before giving us candy canes. Let us enjoy our carved pumpkins until they turn to mush on our front porches before you demand that everyone needs to buy a Christmas tree.
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Hershey’s is one of the main companies that tortures the people who enjoy Christmas after Thanksgiving. Their famous “Jingle Bells” advertisement featuring the green and red Hershey’s Kisses sometimes makes its first appearance near the end of August. August. Before Halloween. Before Labor Day. They were playing “Jingle Bells” before school had even begun. Focusing on Christmas so early on makes it feel less special when the day actually arrives. According to The Queen’s Journal, the newspaper from Queen’s University, “If Christmas celebration becomes normal year-round, it won’t hold the same charm. Celebrating it for three months straight will definitely cause the holiday to become tired once December 25 arrives.” Many people want to enjoy other holidays in between but still love Christmas. Not wanting to celebrate Christmas in November often has nothing to do with one’s love for Christmas, just a desire for the “most wonderful time of the year” to remain special.
We all know of the Grinches of the world– the people who hate Christmas. The Christmas-obsessed people of the world often cannot comprehend the point of view of the Grinch but, even at the end of the famous Dr. Seuss book, the Grinch ends up celebrating Christmas. Truthfully, he does not hate Christmas; he hates the hype behind it. Many people appear to hate Christmas, but it is mainly because of how it can be shoved in our faces too early. According to The Waltonian, another university newspaper, “People love to rush through life and get to the good parts but that takes away from the good things happening now.” Skipping over Thanksgiving–a holiday about being grateful–and going immediately to Christmas-- can make us greedy, especially since Christmas is so focused on gift-receiving.
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Christmas is a wonderful holiday that can make even the grumpiest of people show a smile on their faces, but how can it continue to feel magical if we waste all the magic before Thanksgiving? Everyone should take the time to appreciate every holiday as it comes, but not a moment before the previous one has finished.
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