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I agree, thanksgiving is really important, and we shouldn't jump straight to christmas (it's so far away rn lol)

Even if you don't celebrate thanksgiving, you can still celebrate autumn & the harvest instead of jumping straight to the bleakness of winter

Money.

Thanksgiving doesn't generate the kind of spending that Christmas does. There are no Thanksgiving presents. You buy some extra, fancier foods and that's it. Maybe you take the family out to a restaurant if you don't feel like doing all of that cooking. Unless you're stinking rich and throwing a catered banquet for you and a few hundred of your closest friends the average family doesn't drop as much money on Thanksgiving as they do on Christmas. That's why the Christmas season has been pushed back to just after Halloween.

Basically, it's because Christmas is the biggest cultural holiday in our culture. The only thing stopping it from spreading to September-ish is Halloween, which is the second biggest cultural holiday in our culture

There's a lot more money in Christmas than there is in Thanksgiving

For christmas, there's things like christmas presents, decorations, christmas trees, and all that sort of thing, meanwhile the only things you would probably buy for thanksgiving would be the food itself (and gasoline so you can drive three hours to eat at your weird aunt's house on the other side of the state)