Is Putting Your Xmas Tree Up Early Waging War Against Thanksgiving? | 12 Days of #108Mas

One thing I never fully understand is the variety of implicit rules that life deals us that aren’t necessarily laws, and they don’t actually serve the purpose of improving our existence. It’s like one day someone dumb said something and other dumb people copied it until it became part of our culture. Then the collective dumb shouted down everyone that asked or even worse, acted against the edict. The main culprit of our limited faculties that I annually stand in defiance of is the “rule” that one must wait until after the Thanksgiving bird has been consumed to put up their Christmas Tree.

This year I happen to put up the Xmas tree on November 3rd. It’s arbitrary, I had time that day and I thought it would be worth putting it up. Then of course, all hell broke loose with my twitter (I ain’t calling it X, Elon, gfy!).

War Against Thanksgiving?

So is a person putting up their beautiful Xmas tree in time to be part of the Thanksgiving a WAR on said holiday? In my personal opinion, NO! The tree lights up the room and provides a festive atmosphere to those retiring to my living room post-meal to watch the Bears lose the game but save a time out for the future against the Lions. It sets the tone for a day of food and relaxation.

I think the reason people think it is a “War on Thanksgiving” is because of how putrid the non-food items are for the holiday. Ever go to someone’s house and see all their Thanksgiving decorations? Of course fucking not!! Nobody has anything up, yea, you might have a lunatic or two in your subdivision that has inflatables up, but you know that the pineapple comes out later and the weirdos in the cul-de-sac will fahk on them. That’s not celebrating Thanksgiving, that’s some weirdo kink (we ain’t kink shaming here, just making a Thanksgiving observation).

Also, did you ever ingest any Thanksgiving music? Well I tried to this year, I tuned into local Xfinity channel 741 Music Choice – Sounds of the Seasons: Holiday. On Thanksgiving Day they played Thanksgiving songs and boy was that ass. I dare any of yous in the future to attempt it. I was trying to be open to this argument, but alas, I am right and you are dumb.

The Xmas Tree isn’t an adversary of Thanksgiving, it’s a fucking ally and the sooner we all realize that, the greater the collective holiday season will be, so while that bird is cooking, I hope the lights on the tree are twinkling and adding to the holiday for you. That does actually improve your existence. Trust me.

-BeefLoaf