The Halloween Spirit Off-Season…

When you’re a Halloween spirit shocked and overwhelmed by the cloying intrusion of Xmas well-ahead of time, it ain’t easy. I mean, I turned on my car radio on Halloween to find Frosty the Snowman playing…true story! This is why Halloween-spirited foxes are tempted to attack Xmas-playlist radio stations airing in October with chainsaws. It would only be poetic Justice, after all…

Now I’m already mourning the end of spooky season, but the Xmas people were already stepping all over me in late October. If Xmas feels that it deserves to be a two-month holiday, can’t we Halloween folks demand the same? Equal rights, eh Xmas? It’s only fair, after all…

Now Thanksgiving is perhaps the last chance to slow if not stop the Xmas juggernaut, but I don’t have much hope for that, as Thanksgiving icons are basically turkeys. Thanksgiving seems to be basically about grossly overeating, then unbuttoning the pants to fall asleep while watching football, at least in the minds of many…

Christmas just doesn’t listen. Never has, never will. It’s the Godzilla of holidays, fueled by commercialism and profit, and when money talks, business listens…

This doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t at least fight the good fight…and when people wish me “Happy Holidays,” I will urge them to remember Halloween! 🦊🦇🎃

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November 4, 2023 at 11:08 pm
I know how you feel. When I see stores advertising Halloween decorations as early as Labor Day… 😉
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November 5, 2023 at 8:39 am
People who do such things should be taken out, and maimed! Halloween only asks its own space, it’s own time. Xmas wants it ALL! That’s why we have the obscenity of “Xmas in July” promotions… 😾
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November 6, 2023 at 12:06 am
I wouldn’t call it “obscene.” Just a case of Xmas being technically a summer holiday south of the Equator. So, conversely, when it’s July Up Over, it’s mid-winter Down Under!
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