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I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, black leather pappa chair in my living room...and pretty soon I'm going to have to move it, because we always put our Christmas tree right between my chair, and the big stereo speakers our son Eric the inventor built for us a few years ago.
We don't put up our tree till Christmas Eve, and it may be a bit early to be thinking about it right now, but that seems to be all the stores ARE thinking about. Some of them have had Christmas decorations up since just after Labor Day.
Some people resent the fact that the Christmas shopping season seems to start a week earlier every year. I really don't mind. I like Christmas. People say, "Why can't we have Christmas all year long." Well the way it's being started earlier and earlier every year, by somewhere around 2020, it WILL be with us all year long.