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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)

Also, Christmas isn't really that far away, it's like 45 days away or something, and considering how busy I am, that'll fly by faster than I would really like it to

Well, Thanksgiving is (mostly) an American thing, so I understand it when people go straight from Halloween to Christmas in other countries.

But here... it really does feel weird to me. (People totally do it for money-making reasons, though. Some people also just really like Christmas and enjoy celebrating it for, like, two months.)

It's all a matter of preference, but I don't really want to start listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. :)

it was my understanding that thanksgiving was built off of native american exploitation and i just never really got into it. you eat turkey and watch football and there's not a lot to say about it. it's a boring american holiday that was born from what is largely a lie and i just never found it that important