BAH!
(Pic swiped from svashtar)
This is everything that sucks about Halloween AND Christmas.
Christmas has “afterglow.” You can leave your lights or your tree up for a week (or three) and nobody pays much mind. It’s perfectly legit to have a “second Christmas” when the in-laws visit on the 28th. That damn Paul McCartney song lingers like wet dog smell.
But Halloween, no. Hoping to get some discounted Halloween items the following day to accessorize your Krampus costume? Screw you! You can’t have Halloween stuff, it’s ALL CHRISTMAS NOW! Besides, only WEIRDOS would wear a rarsuit when it isn’t even Halloween! Put that thing away! It’s CHRISTMAS!
When I’m King of the Universe, Christmas will be allowed to ramp up only after all Halloween candy has been consumed, and will have a maximum wind-down period of 48 hours, not this three weeks bullshit. Paul McCartney will be irrelevant and it will be the rarsuits that linger like wet dog smell.