This last week some of my co-workers have begun playing Christmas music in the office. That means they were doing so three weeks before Thanksgiving! I argue that Thanksgiving is an important and valuable American holiday and that Christmas music should be reserved until after Thanksgiving. Many disagree!
Do you (if an American) wait until Thanksgiving to begin listening to Christmas music?
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Nope. Once Nov. 1 hits it is Christmas music for me. I am a huge Trans-Siberian Orchestra fan and I love listening to their Christmas music albums for two months 🙂
Well, I share more here in this recent article I posted, but I played my first Christmas tunes on 25 October, a month before Thanksgiving. But I haven’t played much in these past 3 weeks.
Nov 1st? Oct 25th?
If you read my article you will see I love the lead up to Christmas just as much as Christmas.
I do as well…I just think before Thanksgiving basically annuls Thanksgiving!
Alright, so here’s why I started playing Christmas music so early:
For the past five or so years I have always started celebrating on the traditional day after Thanksgiving date. But every year when Christmas would roll around I would be left feeling like I hadn’t really had enough time to celebrate. Things just got way too busy and time went by too fast. So, what makes sense? Being disappointed in the same way year after year? No! ALBERT EINSTEIN tells us, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So instead, I pushed back the start date so that by the time Christmas rolls around my cocoa drinking, carol singing, ornament hanging, and gift giving Christmas needs will have been met sufficiently.
Its just good logic. 🙂
I say we follow the logic further and begin celebrating Christmas in March. 🙂
By all means, do! And mark my words, when October gets here each year I’ll begin playing Christmas music just as I did this year!
Fine, I’ll play Christmas music all year long. By the time December rolls around you’ll hate Christmas and you’ll never celebrate it again.
I doubt it. But touche’ just the same.
I win!
OK, I have to admit that while I haven’t started playing Christmas music yet, we did start putting up our decorations yesterday. Here’s why: One of my daughters has a birthday on Dec. 30, so we take our Christmas decorations down on Christmas day (or the day after at the latest). We want to give enough time between Christmas and her birthday that we can make sure her special day is just that…special.
That being said, we have a lot of fun with Christmas decorations and celebrations. Maybe one day we’ll figure out how to make just as big a deal of the resurrection as we do of the incarnation!