CREATING CHRISTMAS
Already?

The Missourian article "Creating Christmas" by Melissa Dean details some local businesses' early plans for holiday shopping. While it's great that people are excited about the season and looking forward to it, isn't it a little premature to be having open houses for Christmas shopping at the beginning of November? I think it is, anyway. My brother works at Best Buy, and he had to work later this week because the store's already open one more hour for holiday shopping. It seems like everyone's going straight from Halloween to Christmas. What happened to Thanksgiving? Instead of giving thanks as a national tradition, it seems as if, as a nation, we're putting more emphasis on the consumer-happy holiday shopping season, which isn't necessarily a good thing. My iTunes automatically starts to play Christmas songs, and I skip over them just because it doesn't feel normal to be celebrating to Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving, not even a second earlier.

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