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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Y'know, good for you. This is the attitude I wanna have. Fuck em, but give me a game of lightsabers with my sister and two wrapping paper tubes >:)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Kids wanted Xmas to start after Halloween this year.

Xmas started after Halloween this year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

100%. Celebrating stuff early is not inherently consumeristic or capitalism driven

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Actually, it was always capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Meh, at least the blood diamond thing is dying fast and hard. Young people don't give two shits about real diamonds, and neither do some of us old farts.

Hell, my finance and I are both 52 and the question of "real" diamonds never even came into play. We just got on Etsy and picked a couple of dope rings that we loved, ~$500 for both.

Disclaimer: Her ring appears to have real diamonds, but they're tiny. For $260, for that ring, I'd say the price of diamonds has tanked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You forgot Super Bowl Sunday which takes place between New Years and Valentine's Day and is a heavy consumption day.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A disturbing amount of people put up Christmas trees on November 1st, I think the December region has been invading all the other months.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I want my childhood rules from the 70s back in play.

Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving, go down on New Year's Day.

Christmas ain't special if you got 3 months of it. 3 months is a season, not a holiday.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's only Christmas after Saint Nicolas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Good policy

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Christmas things stay in December but I'll buy hot cross buns any time of the year, if I can find them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Especially one and penny or two a penny, hot cross buns. If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They sell eggnog year round now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The music absolutely does hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

November Christmas music does cause me physical pain thanks

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ridiculous to see Christmas stuff in the market in September already! (I live in Finland)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its September in Finland right now?! Lmao jk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Stuff appeared when it was September.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*consumerism

Doesn't need to be capitalism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It just so happens to be a consequence of Capitalism, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And only the 25th region of December.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is a december region of the year?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is near the November region but far up in the future. Well that is if you want to go the next December region.

If you wanted to revive going to last year December region well... not possible yet. Maybe in future updates.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One benefit of Ayyamiha being at the end of Feb. After Christmas sales means the camel is leaving more loot which is good cause it's 4-5 days long.

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