The turkey holiday deserves its time to shine
Walden Sullivan, Staff Writer
’Tis the season for premature celebrations! Halloween’s over, and to some, that means it’s time to put up a tree and get cozy with a cup of hot chocolate. Those people could not be more wrong.
Undoubtedly, the right time to start the Christmas festivities is the day after Thanksgiving. Not a day before, nor a day after. November needs its time to shine, and we shouldn’t be robbing it of its only holiday.
In the correct sense, Halloween, fall and Christmas are completely separate. Even though Halloween occurs during fall, the only logical sequence of the holiday seasons is that October is Halloween, most of November is Thanksgiving and December is Christmas. The reasoning for this improved calendar is mainly based on the different forms of celebration for each holiday. When it’s Halloween, cozy and aesthetic fall does not fit in with the holiday. Halloween is a time to pull out your dusty book of scary stories and don a spooky mask, therefore the essence of Oct is a macabre one. On the other hand, the Thanksgiving season should be characterized by coziness- pumpkin pie baking in the oven, apple picking and family. It should not be about watching “Home Alone” while drinking hot chocolate. This opinion is shared by many, who believe the Christmas season is often pushed on us prematurely.
“Start celebrating Christmas right after Thanksgiving. There’s nothing else to do in between the two, you know?” Grace Garcia (’25) said.
A proper timeline can also boost one’s spirits, getting folks into an appropriately jolly holiday mood. Monty Oxman (’24) is a firm believer of this correct holiday timeline.
“We should start getting in the Christmas spirit right after thanksgiving. That way there’s something to look forward to for the month in-between the holidays,” Oxman said.
There are also several benefits to correctly sequencing your holiday festivities. Ever heard the saying “don’t count your chickens before they hatch”? If you jump headfirst into Christmas before Thanksgiving, there is a high chance that you will have more issues on actual Christmas. For example, If you buy a real Christmas tree in early Nov, it will rot by the time Christmas comes along. Those trees are expensive, and you don’t want to have to get a second one in mid-December. On the other hand, If you start celebrating in Dec, you will have a more limited selection of things like Trees and Wreaths, preventing you from being paralyzed by choices. Additionally, the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving are a time for family and gratitude. Do you really want to disrupt such imperative traditions with Hallmark, canned Christmas celebrations?
All of this goes to show the many reasons why Christmas celebrations should start right after Thanksgiving. Whether you start celebrating in March or Nov., the holiday season does not begin until after the turkey is digested.
