I don't like how early the Christmas season is pushed upon us. Here in Florida at least, the new Christmas ornaments come out in the card stores on July 1st of each year, and little by little over the months leading up to Christmas, Christmasy things start showing up in the card stores and other stores, so that by the time Christmas Day rolls around, everyone is so sick of it, they want it to be totally over and done with by December 26. On that day, you see Christmas trees tossed out by the road, and Christmas lights turned off until next year. When we were kids, we didn't even see anything having to do with Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. We'd put up our Christmas tree up and sent out our Christmas cards a week or two before Christmas, and we would leave our tree up and our Christmas lights up until mid January. After all, we didn't feel back then that the holiday season ended on December 26, and it really doesn't. Too bad it's gotten so commerical.