Many people begin to get into the Christmas spirit pretty early in the year, but how soon is too soon?

Remember that episode of Phineas and Ferb when they made it snow in the summer? That’s kind of like how we are celebrating Christmas. Phineas and Ferb made it snow when it clearly was not supposed to. Likewise, we are celebrating Christmas at the wrong times and in the wrong ways. It seems like everyone has been in the Christmas spirit since last February.

People started getting ready for the holidays and started tweeting about Christmas in September, and once October hit, everyone went wild. Stores put their holiday decorations out at the end of September, some even before that. This is ludicrous because we still have to get through Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Black Friday sales have crept their way closer to the beginning of the week each year. Black Friday isn’t even on Friday anymore. It should be called Black Thursday or Black Week. How ironic that we willingly leave our families on one holiday in order to pursue another. But that’s a different story in itself. (You can look on page 4 for that…)

I don’t think we as a society have a good grip on what’s really important. If we are so focused on binge watching every single Christmas movie known to man starting in July, then we will miss out on all of the little life events in between.

So how soon is too soon? Well, ABC Family’s “25 days of Christmas” seems like a pretty reasonable window for celebration. Twenty-five days. Not 365. I understand that the build up to Christmas is what makes this holiday so special. However, if we spend 364 days a year preparing for December 25, what makes it more special than any other day we’ve been celebrating all year? If anything, by that point, everyone would already be completely Christmas-ed out. All of this pre-celebration has got to stop. It is taking away from the actual holiday itself. If we’ve been in the Christmas spirit since last December 26, then Christmas becomes just another day and not the special, meaningful day that it is meant to be.