Christmas Celebration Restrictions

"Originally, the term "Christmas season" in Western culture was considered synonymous with Christmastide, a term itself derived from Yuletide, which runs from December 25 (Christmas Day) to January 6 (Epiphany), popularly known as the 12 Days of Christmas. However, as the economic impact involving the anticipatory lead-up to Christmas Day grew in America and Western Europe into the 19th and 20th centuries, the term 'Christmas season' began to become synonymous instead with the traditional Christian Advent season, the period observed in Western Christianity from the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day until Christmas Day itself."

Now from what I gather marketing and media push the Christmas season because they believe the more time you anticipate Christmas, the more things you will buy. At a business owners standpoint this makes sense but my real question is why do people complain when stores start to sell earlier. I don't see a law that says you cannot anticipate the holidays before a certain date.Now personally I wouldn't mind if the holiday season started mid October but at the same time that would overrun the lead up to Halloween which is also one of my favorite holidays. Now the question is when does the holiday season officially start. You can get many different answers depending on who you ask. Some people say the holiday season stars on November 1st and this is the day that I would find most accurate but some people would say the day after thanksgiving or maybe even December first. Personally I start to truly celebrate the holidays on November first and people still look at me weird. What is an acceptable day to start celebrating? Does anyone really know? Since there is no official date, why does society look down on the celebration of a holiday that is purely based upon joy, happiness, and the birth of a savior? Why take that away from a person and make them feel restricted from something that makes them happy.

-Jessi