Well it is that time of year again when I turn into Ebenezer Scrooge.
This morning on my way to work I heard the hosts of the morning show on a local radio station discussing Christmas, and putting up their trees.
Which naturally left me saying, “bah, humbug.”
As I write this it is currently Nov. 14.
We are currently about 40 days from Christmas, still plenty of time until we should be worrying.
In life we are often told that the best way to achieve goals is to set small goals.
So maybe it is time we do that with Christmas, too.
There are plenty of things going on in November and each of them deserve our attention.
We just got through Remembrance Day, which to be perfect honest deserves more attention than it gets.
Now we have American Thanksgiving; I know we are not American, but let us get through that before we start worrying about Christmas.
Of course there are also a number of important things happening during the month of November including Movember and National Diabetes Month.
We should be worrying about these instead.
While I understand that sometimes, particularly in Saskatchewan, it is important that decorations go up early. Especially this year, we have had cold snowy weather for a couple of weeks already but that does not mean they need to be turned on.
We are at a point in the year where there are more important things to worry about than a holiday, which over the years has become overly commercialized.
Let us stop worrying about Christmas in November and start worrying about Christmas in December, when we did when we were children.
Let us take steps to get there.
American Thanksgiving is next.
Then we have the last week plus of November to make final pushes for both Movember and for National Diabetes Month.
Then maybe once we get into December we can start worrying about Christmas.
