What's My Beef!

May I ask the media (radio stations, TV stations, cable networks, newspapers, advertisers, etc.) why they are making Christmas come earlier and earlier all the time? Heck, it's even beginning before Halloween Day! At Target, it's just after Labor Day!

Now I used to be a kid just like you were some 27 or more years ago. What kid just couldn't wait for Christmas Day to arrive! Nowadays, we're kid-adults putting Christmas so out of perspective that we're hyping the holiday well before the end of summer. With the Christmas season getting longer and longer all the time, the full effect of the holiday season is more diluted, watered down, as its stretched wafer thin over the 13 week period before Christmas Day, making Christmas Day too commercial and too dominant for many of us to stand.

What happened to Thanksgiving season? Where's the decorations for Thanksgiving? Where's the pilgrims? The indians? The Mayflowers? The turkeys? The harvested foods? Instead, we're getting decorations from that other holiday more than a month ahead.

Wait a minute, Christmas! This isn't your season now. As a matter of fact, I am not doing anything closely resembling Christmas (except planning a playlist for the DFSX Christmas Channel to debut, well, Thanksgiving Day) until we get Thanksgiving planning implemented, the stuff bought, and the proper decorations hung around the place. When Thanksgiving Day arrives, we do Thanksgiving things (cook the food, eat the bird, watch the annual NFL games and parades), and for some of you, getting bothered by the younger relatives, or older relatives if you're young. There is no Christmas holiday anything yet.

Then, on the day after Thanksgiving (called After Thanksgiving Day), the president, or whoever feels like it, gets up at 6am, and proclaims to the media "Let the Christmas Season Begin!" Then, it's time to put on the Christmas Day hype, music, shopping, and all that jazz that goes with the days of the more solid four weeks preceding Christmas until the day finally arrives: the First Day of Christmas!

So look at the calendars, folks. What day is it? November 12th. That's right in the middle of Thanksgiving season, which is short this year at 22 days because Thanksgiving, which falls on the fourth Thursday in November, is falling on the earliest day possible!

The bright side? November 23rd is the official start of the Christmas Season, and this year, it's the longest at 33 days, but next year, the Christmas season is 27 days long when Thanksgiving Day pops up on November 28th!

So let's keep the Christmas season rich and fulfilling and not allow it to start until Halloween and Thanksgiving are well over with and keep the season in its proper perspective.

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