I am a huge fan of Christmas. I absolutely love the holiday. I cannot wait for the end of Thanksgiving, so I can start listening to the music and watching the movies. But I personally do not believe people should jump the gun on the holiday. I can’t stand walking through shops or sitting at restaurants where they play Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I think we should at least get through one holiday before we start the next.

A few weeks into my freshman year at Southern Methodist University, I couldn’t believe that they had already opened a Halloween USA costume shop right next to the campus. Halloween was more than a month away and we hadn’t even gotten through Labor Day yet. Though Labor Day and Memorial Day aren’t as big holidays in some people’s minds; they still exist and are treated as most national holidays. It was completely insane. I couldn’t see why anyone, college students or not, would need a costume this early. It is incomprehensible to me.

Walking through Michael’s – The Arts & Crafts Store on Homecoming Weekend, only a week after Halloween, they already had Christmas trees, lights and decorations hanging all over the store. I couldn’t even begin to describe the frustration I felt. It is obnoxious that we can’t even get through one holiday before we begin thinking about the next. As one of the biggest fans of Christmas, I can’t wait for “the most wonderful time of the year,” as some call it, but I want to finish my Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing before I prepare my next holiday meal.