While most of us still have jack o’lanterns on our doorsteps and Halloween candy hidden throughout our homes, we can’t fight it any longer—the holidays are here!
I know it seems like just yesterday (it was) that you spent the family fortune ($8 billion in the US) on fake blood and cob webs, but it’s time to dig deep (into your pockets) and soldier through.
It seems like the holidays sneek up on us earlier and earlier each year. Those getting a head start on their holiday shopping probably noticed that Halloween had an identity crisis this year, with pumpkins and ghosts on display side by side with the twinkling lights, snowmen and evergreens.
This is nothing new, but it does seem like the holiday season only took a two month break this year (sometime in June and July?).
But is Christmas really sneeking in on Halloween’s territory or is it the other way around?
After all, Christmas has always been a time for super spending. It seems like the cost of Halloween has been creeping higher every year.
So we could whine and moan about the commercialization of Christmas, or we could accept the fact that the holidays now stretch from late July to early March…and allows Halloween and Thanksgiving to sneak in there.
After all, no one wants to be a Scrooge. So let’s all suck it up, and start the holiday season off on the right foot, and hopefully, without our credit cards in hand.
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