When the decorations go up (was: Being Scrooge-like)

[Dicentra spectabilis]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Kathryn Cawte:

> I used to be very strict, refusing to put up the Christmas tree until 
> Christmas Eve itself. That softened to the weekend before Christmas. 

We in the U.S. have the advantage of Thanksgiving Day, the 4th
Thursday in November, which is considered the proper beginning of the
Christmas season.  (Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, isn't it?  Do
y'all mark the beginning of Christmas at that time?)

Stores used to hold off on Christmas decorations until the day after
Thanksgiving (a.k.a. the biggest shopping day of the year because of
all the special sales), but I saw X-mas decorations for sale on the
aisle next to the Halloween candy this year.  They're no longer
honoring the Thanksgiving barrier, bless their greedy little hearts.

I won't put up my own Christmas decorations until the day after
Thanksgiving.  The neighbors down the street (with the display you can
see from orbit) were rigging up their stuff last weekend.  I still
have my Halloween decorations perched in the windowsill (laziness, not
principle).

--Dicentra