When did you start decorating?

Christmas time, Christmas cheer! Christmas comes but once a year! (Okay, so the rhyming was a little cheesy.) Lights are shining and credit cards are maxing out. It's the holiday season. Dec.1 first was yesterday and today, Dec. 2, christmas lights are going up at my house. Of course, we're not the first. I saw lights up the day after Halloween. Now, to me, that is just a little extreme. It's like they skipped a Holiday. (you know the one with the turkey and the thanks, yeah that one) Now, if I were to put up my tree and lights the day after Halloween, I would get sick of it and by Dec. I would be wishing for Valentines. The twinkling lights and the wrapping paper are supposed to be squsihed into one month. That it what makes it fun! I enjoy the holiday cheer cramped into four weeks. (maybe "cramped was the wrong word to use, more like, I want the fun to be all together. I like the spirit of December, and it shouldn't be the spirit of oct.-Jan.) If it's spread out over several months, then wouldn't you get tired of it? I know that I would! On 0ct 31, a major holiday in America, I was going to a Halloween party to watch a SCARY movie. In the car I turned on the radio and suddenky I heard the popular Christmas jingle, "It's Begininning to look a lot like Christmas". Now, unless I'm going insane or blind, or the station is being broadcasted from Greenland, I didn't think it looked a lot like Christmas. Why so early? Why not playing that music around turkey day?? I know we are all soooooooooo excited for the Christmas season, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Okay? Good, now, go trim a tree.