Rushing the Christmas Season : the Commercial Trend

Halloween is just passed and if we walk through the streets we notice the shops are already decorated with Christmas trees and started already to store all kind of Christmas goods.

How can you now be in the mood of Christmas if the Halloween parties with pumpkins, ghosts, witches and spooky items are just passed? It is too soon; most everyone loves Christmas but the commercial trend changed the real Christmas traditions.

I love to see all the Christmas decorations in the streets but not two or even more months before. Different holidays are competing now and maybe within a few years we don't see the difference anymore between all the holidays anymore or some of them are "just forgotten". During my last holiday in Salzburg-Austria, I walked through a shopping street and I noticed already Christmas trees, Christmas decorations but also typical gifts for Eastern. Bugs Bunny was already there with the typical chocolate Eastern eggs. We were just in the beginning of the month September and it was already possible to buy presents for the different holidays.

It is totally wrong; if the commercial trend goes and shops started to sell these decorations months before; we will mix the different holidays and forget the real traditions. Maybe we will see pumpkins with Santa Claus and witches and ghosts are hanging in the Christmas trees. Bugs Bunny will sleep in the Christmas crib and our children forget all the real Christmas traditions.

Maybe you don't believe me; but how can you be in the mood of a certain holiday if all the typical Christmas decorations and gifts are already present in the shops months before.

It might seem ridiculous but the commercial trends tend to change all our traditions. If business promotions for Christmas gifts start earlier, people are going to start earlier with their purchases for Christmas time and they will celebrate this event for a longer time.

Christmas is also a time of many contests and for as well adults as children. Decoration contest, the best Christmas song, creative Christmas ideas, the most original "Father Christmas" are some contests which starts already soon after Halloween. Thanksgiving Day tend to become "a forgotten holiday" if their thoughts are already Christmas minded.

Rushing the Christmas season is really expensive. Nobody can ignore all these Christmas promotions in the shops months before Christmas. There is also a wide range of these promotions available online and probably most people changed their purchase habit with starting earlier to rush the Christmas season. I don't think we can stop this but it is completely wrong. Most everyone likes Christmas but I regret that the business promotions doesn't respect the real Christmas period. It is not unlikely that many people will forget the real meaning of Christmas "the birth of Jesus".

Christmas promotions are a real hype now and we have to ignore these actions. We need to teach our children to start celebrating Christmas in the beginning of December and not two or three months before. Christmas is a time of peace, love and original Christmas traditions. Keep these traditions alive in the right period!