Alternatively, you can let me put up my damn 5 minutes of happiness tree and the “I like the pretty color” lights. Christmas is literally the comfy smell-good season for me. And Thanksgiving can co-exist. Yeah its pretty much about presents and wrapping paper for the stores, but just because a bunch of assholes like it for evil reasons, doesn’t mean I have to cull my enjoyment to “defeat” them.
TL;DR I’m gonna just keep the Christmas Tree around and redecorate it for each holiday. And I’ll have Halloweenmas, Thanksmas, New Yearsmas, Birthmas whatever other holidaymas.
I’ll go full fucking elf.
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.
Christmas things stay in December but I’ll buy hot cross buns any time of the year, if I can find them.
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.
Yeah but my mother in law makes some beautifully potent aged eggnog and so storebought just isn’t on my shopping list even at christmas.
A disturbing amount of people put up Christmas trees on November 1st, I think the December region has been invading all the other months.
It’s only Christmas after Saint Nicolas.
Good policy
Or it puts a smile on my wife’s and kids face.
And who wants to put up decorations when there’s 3 feet of snow and it’s -20c out.
Let other people have joy in the little things, doesn’t hurt you.
The music absolutely does hurt.
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.
I could have Christmas up all year, but than it loses it magic.
It’s from after Halloween, to new years.
What’s magic to someone else won’t be magic to you, don’t shit on other peoples happiness just to make you happier. That’s what’s destroying this world.
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November Christmas music does cause me physical pain thanks
Actually, it was always capitalism.
Hasn’t Christmas has been around longer than capitalism?
No
Where would you place the starts of those two?
Religion is a product of capitalism and it’s right hand. The other hand of capitalism is state.
Religion is a product of capitalism
This is such a bizarre take. That would mean capitalism existing before religion.
Of course it did
When do you figure those two things started?
I’m sorry, this is one of the most amazing twists on this meme I’ve ever seen. I burst out laughing. Is it OC?
It was made (in Canada) by @[email protected]
dead :(
I can see them just fine! Just to make sure, this is a Mastodon account, so I’m not sure you can see their posts on Lemmy
Ah, that’s what they mean. No, lemmy doesn’t federate posts that aren’t on any community, meaning all microblog posts. Kbin does however, I’m pretty sure.
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And only the 25th region of December.
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
I think Christmas has become the poster child for this unending cycle of “event seasons” that is pushed by retailers. New Year’s celebrations and sales give way to Presidents Day sales and Valentine’s (if you really love her you’ll spend $10K on a real blood diamond) then it’s Easter (gotta buy cute new clothes for the kids to celebrate the rising of the Christian lich god) then Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Pride Month, Fourth of July, Back to School, Labor Day, Halloween, say hi and bye to Thanksgiving bc Christmas ads featuring white people buying ridiculous shit for their spouses take precedence.
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.
To be fair, people like holidays and it’s tradition far older than capitalism, the calendar in most of catholic and orthodox countries (and afaik the nonchristian religions aren’t that much different in that) since medieval up to even XX century in some places was literally counted not by months and days, but from holiday to holiday and there was dozens of them, so every few days except maybe the great fast there was this or that holiday. Capitalism just took the heavily cutted protestant version and concentrated the holidays even further, but the actual celebrations are just few days (we can’t give proles too much free days, we need the labour to steal!) so that the preparations got extended beyond the wildest expectations.
*consumerism
Doesn’t need to be capitalism
It just so happens to be a consequence of Capitalism, though.
Ridiculous to see Christmas stuff in the market in September already! (I live in Finland)
People in my neighborhood put their Christmas lights up immediately after Halloween and might take them down before February.
Now I’m no mathetologist, but that’s 1/4 of the goddamned year! It’s not Christmas. It’s sad nostalgia for an aging generation, trying to recreate their own half remembered childhoods, and, like everything else in modern life, late stage capitalism is more than happy to take advantage and milk it for all that it’s worth.
On a serious note, doesn’t having a holiday season take up 1/4 of the year detract from its specialness and solemnity?
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.
I usually put up my Christmas lights at the end of September if I can. Programmable RGB lights so I can use them for Halloween as well as Christmas. I turn them off between Halloween and Thanksgiving usually, but now I’m seeing tons of Christmas lights already on in my neighborhood and I didn’t actually put my lights up this year. Probably will just go without putting them up this year as I hate going up on the ladder, but I have some RGB spiral trees to put up in the yard at least that I’ll still put out probably after I get back from Thanksgiving break.
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.
There’s a lot of them and it’s pretty cheap, go for it lol.
That’s it, the joke is finally played out. Shame, it was one of the greats.
