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If people don't like thanksgiving being when it is, they can celebrate some other time. No ones forcing anyone to celebrate. Lots of places of business are closed, but that's not a big deal.
Thanksgiving is my favorite of all the holidays because it doesn't involve me having to buy presents for anybody; just being with family and like was mentioned, it is not a religious holiday so everybody can enjoy it no matter what your religious beliefs are.
I also like it where it is right now, the 4th Thursday of November.
They're different holidays. Thanksgiving is a harvest festival. Christmas is a pagan fest for the forest goods or a Winter solstice observance, depending on the pagan. (It got taken over by Christians after the pagan were converted.)
I'd prefer to move thanksgiving to October when Canada celebrates it as a more appropriate time for a harvest festival.
Now, halloween I could do without.
I dread Christmas. It's all about the gifts anyway. We all know that by now. I just hate giving gifts to family. They are so ungrateful. I have had family members complain about the gift I gave them a week later. Wrong color, size, style, etc. I usually put the receipt in the box. Somehow I forgot with this particular gift. I told the gift receiver to do one of two things. Either throw the gift in the garbage or re gift it. I don't care. From now on I'm only giving to the children not their parents...
My family quit exchanging gifts 25 years ago. If the urge to give overwhelms you, give to your local charity and tuck the receipt into a Christmas card.
I'd prefer to move thanksgiving to October when Canada celebrates it as a more appropriate time for a harvest festival.
Now, halloween I could do without.
Halloween is the harvest festival. It's the calends of winter, and the oldest festival continuously celebrated by the human race.
If anything, it should be farther from Christmas, not closer.
Hear here! I can see the point of having Thanksgiving in fall, because of the harvest coming in, and of course that's pumpkin season. But I can see the point of having it even before Halloween. It just packs so many holiday stovetop-o-ramas together in the space of a few weeks.
I love Thanksgiving even though I do all the cooking and it's exhausting. At least it feels like fall even those years it's still hot in Texas. I just pull out the scary Halloween decorations and leave my scarecrows and pumpkins up so I get a splash of fall colors under my green live oak tree.
Now Halloween I want moved. I'm lobbying for my neighborhood to make it the last Saturday in October. No more grouchy wired kids at school the day and hopefully the trick-or-treating by car will decrease if we do it before the actual day (we get a lot of people who drive from other parts of the city then drive from lit up house to house or drive behind their kids so it's dangerous for everyone trying to walk around).
I agree with your thoughts on Halloween. Just make it on the weekend.
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