Putting Up A Christmas Tree Before Thanksgiving Is Psychopathic Behavior

We had the age-old Christmas tree debate on Macrodosing this week because Madeline wanted to put up a tree in our new studio before Thanksgiving and I absolutely won't allow that. I guess it makes sense because I also feel strongly about the issue, but people have firm takes on this topic.

I love Christmas. There is not a better month of the year than December for my money. I love Christmas so much, in fact, that I can't hear a stray Christmas song in July or have a tree up in early November because it makes me genuinely sad that it isn't actually Christmastime. It's for this reason that I can't imagine putting up a tree before Thanksgiving.

There's simply no way anyone who has their Christmas tree up on November 10 is still proper levels of merry and bright a month later. The four weeks from Black Friday to December 25 are the perfect amount of time to have the tree up in your house, listen to all of your favorite Christmas songs and enjoy all the activities of the Christmas season while maintaining adequate holiday cheer throughout. It seems counterintuitive, but people who put up their trees early actually have the least amount of Christmas spirit because they're not actually ride or die. They're content to just have the decorations up and pretend they're Christmas diehards when they're actually the biggest casuals.

And if you want to put your tree up in early November, where does it end? If the logic is that the earlier the better, why not in October? August? Let's just leave the trees up all year.

Putting up your Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving is one of the best moments of the year. You turn on those first Christmas songs, bake cookies and decorate the tree basking in the fact that the most wonderful time of the year is upon us. If you're doing that on November 1, respectfully, you're a psychopath.