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Y'know, good for you. This is the attitude I wanna have. Fuck em, but give me a game of lightsabers with my sister and two wrapping paper tubes >:)

Same here. Decorating the tree is just fun and it smells good. Plus it's an excuse to make the outside of the house pretty when HOA normally doesn't allow it most of the year.

100%. Celebrating stuff early is not inherently consumeristic or capitalism driven

Kids wanted Xmas to start after Halloween this year.

Xmas started after Halloween this year.

Macy's played a significant role in popularizing Christmas consumerism through events like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and their holiday displays. The first parade was in 1924.

It was around that time Christmas was portrayed as a shopping holiday. It was such a successful marketing campaign that the rest of the holidays were sure to follow.

Meh, at least the blood diamond thing is dying fast and hard. Young people don't give two shits about real diamonds, and neither do some of us old farts.

Hell, my finance and I are both 52 and the question of "real" diamonds never even came into play. We just got on Etsy and picked a couple of dope rings that we loved, ~$500 for both.

Disclaimer: Her ring appears to have real diamonds, but they're tiny. For $260, for that ring, I'd say the price of diamonds has tanked.

You forgot Super Bowl Sunday which takes place between New Years and Valentine's Day and is a heavy consumption day.

I want my childhood rules from the 70s back in play.

Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving, go down on New Year's Day.

Christmas ain't special if you got 3 months of it. 3 months is a season, not a holiday.

It's only Christmas after Saint Nicolas.

Superior in all ways.

https://youtu.be/oDuma1M09B0?t=12

They sell an advent calendar on AliExpress and I guess other similar places were you keep moving him down from the nakatomi plaza tower for each day.

I haven't bought it because I resisted my temptations but I keep worrying that by the time I might want to buy it it will not be sold anymore.

The music absolutely does hurt.

November Christmas music does cause me physical pain thanks

I hate to say it, but how can it be precious if it is not special? You could have Christmas decorations and music all year round, but then nobody would smile because there would be no special time anymore with which it'd be associated.

Edit: Additionally, if it is not in anticipation of something special, the flashiness just becomes plain annoying.

Especially one and penny or two a penny, hot cross buns. If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons!

They sell eggnog year round now.

I think the answer here is much simpler than that.

It's warmer early Nov than it is in Dec so putting them up is more enjoyable.

And taking it down later is just pure laziness.

Its September in Finland right now?! Lmao jk

It just so happens to be a consequence of Capitalism, though.

Well, in some countries it's also 7th region of January, but that's religious details. Here in Ukraine, we've recently switched the official Christmas date, so we kinda have both

It was made (in Canada) by @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social

Is near the November region but far up in the future. Well that is if you want to go the next December region.

If you wanted to revive going to last year December region well... not possible yet. Maybe in future updates.