You step outside embracing the chilly air, the barren trees, and the smell of pumpkin spice. Halloween is over, days are becoming shorter, Thanksgiving is approaching, and the holiday season will soon be upon us. That raises the question: when is the appropriate time to truly start celebrating Christmas? This means listening to the Christmas classics, drinking nutmeg, and decorating your tree and house. In the words of Mariah Carey, “it’s time” on November 1. However, when do high schoolers think it is “OK” to start the festivities? In multiple interviews with students, we asked the important question, “when do you think it’s time to start celebrating Christmas”?
When asking sophomore, Hayley Boe, when she starts decorating for Christmas, she answered, “When you put up your christmas decor a month early, you get used to it; but when you put it up later, it’s this feeling, walking into your house, of ‘Oh its Christmas!’” Boe highlights how putting up jolly decorations too early might dim that feeling of excitement and anticipation whenever you see them.
Another perspective junior Delya Lewis presents is this one. “My family -we have this tradition where we go get our Christmas tree the Friday after Thanksgiving; and then I decorate the entire house.” Lewis brings a new idea that for some people, the decorating time is important to family tradition and is the same every year.
That brings up another question of when people start listening to Christmas music. Sophomore Garrett Sullian responded, “Around winter break. I’m not a huge Christmas music guy so it can’t be that early.” Sullivan’s take on it is similar to the ideas of Boe, and Lewis where Christmas celebrations should take place after Thanksgiving, rounding into the Christmas season.
However, this is not the case for everyone. With the question of when do you start decorating for Christmas, freshman Owen Marshman stated, “I start decorating around a week before Thanksgiving.” This is unlike what the previous people stated however, is true about multiple others.
Senior Gigi Gildark stated, “Sometimes I decorate during November; however, I know that some people don’t like decorations during that time.” Gildark conveys the idea that everyone has their own preferences as to when they like to start getting into the Christmas mood.
Christmas is such an exciting and joyful time, which everyone is looking forward to. Having numerous advent calendars, the Christmas countdown, we are anxiously awaiting that first smell of that pine tree, the first jingle of that song, and the first glimpse of the start of Christmas.
Just like Mariah Carey at 11:59 p.m. on October 31 anticipating for that clock to tick to 12:00 a.m., when do you start defrosting?
