Slow Your Roll, Santa! (with gifs)

What is the deal with Christmas??

Okay, I feel like that came off more Jerry Seinfield than I intended it to...But the question stands! Why do we all rush into the Christmas season immediately after Halloween? There are other holidays inbetween too!!!!

I mean, Veterans day is on November 11th and Thanksgiving is November 26th and we barely bat an eye at them. Sure, there are a few Thanksgiving commercials and Military get discounts on Veterans Day, but they are almost drowned out by the Christmas decorations and WAY more commercials and tv specials and songs and IT IS ONLY THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER, PEOPLE.

I feel like as soon as the clock strikes midnight on Halloween, all the stores go through some sort of Cinderella transformation and the bats and pumpkins turn into tinsel and trees.

I mean, I saw a Christmas commercial in September this year. SEPTEMBER!!! The month we're still back-to-school shopping and getting ready for Halloween. You can't just jump the gun 4 months in advance, Christmas!!!! You're like that kid from school that cut to the front of the lunch line because they thought they were better than everyone else. You remember that kid? Yeah, we all hated that kid.

I know this all sounds very Grinchy of me, but I'm not saying I hate Christmas. I love Christmas. It's a season of giving, and good cheer, and hot chocolate, and cookies...I just don't like what we've turned Christmas in to.

Like I said, Christmas is supposed to be a happy time, and yet when we see commercials for it so early in the year it invokes a sense of dread. You start worrying about having enough money for gifts, what do I get everyone? When do I start putting up my decorations? Is it too so? What if I wait and I'm the weird person who's the only one on the block without decorations? Do I get a real tree or a fake tree? If I get a real tree now will it last until Christmas? Have I even saved up enough money for gifts? How many family events do I have to go to? Do I have to plan one? BAKING! How much do I have to make? Do I have enough ingredients? Do I order presents online or go out and brave Black Friday????? (I could go on and on about how WRONG Black Friday is, but that's a topic for another post.)

Christmas is starting to evoke the same sense of fear that Krampus does!

And now I have to explain Krampus to you! Great!

Brief history lesson:

Way back when, Saint Nick wasn't the only one who came for Christmas. Krampus did too. While Saint Nick rewards the well behaved children, Krampus punishes the badly behaved. And while Saint Nick is a jolly human man in red robes, Krampus is like a combination between a yeti and the devil, who is super tall, with claws, hooves, sharp teeth, and large horns. Yeah, creepy as f***. Eventually Krampus got downgraded to giving bad kids coal, and then we just gave that job to Saint Nick because Krampus is super fricken creepy and no kid needs the image of that thing coming into their house at night to "punish" them.

So, yeah...Christmas is the new Krampus.

(To prove my point, check out the trailer for the movie "Krampus" here.)