No sooner had Americans put away their Halloween costumes than the Internet started posting holiday memes and breaking out the tree lights. The onslaught of excitement sparked a contend here at OprahMag.com headquarters: When is the advisable time to bring on the vacation cheer?

Here, two of our squad members duke it out.

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Arianna, Digital Director: "Please Hold the Christmas Until Thanksgiving"

I love me some Christmas. Even as a decorated New Yorker with a studio flat besides pocket-sized for a tree, every year I prepare out some tinsel to accompany my favorite holiday-scented candles and the sounds of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" on repeat. I'm shamelessly dizzy while staring broad-eyed at the twinkling lights on every street corner, and it's my personal tradition to dance in my kitchen while I make holiday cookies for various gatherings.

But I'm simply not gear up for all of that holiday whimsy nonetheless.

I hateful, come on people! You still accept Halloween candy on your kitchen tabular array. How can you already exist putting out the Christmas decorations? Part of what makes the holiday season so special is that it's just that—special. It's a cursory, magical period during the twelvemonth when we all become to unapologetically indulge our childlike selves. For me, knowing that this window only comes once a year—and for a brusque amount of fourth dimension—is what makes me appreciate information technology more than while I take it.

Plus, we too can't forget that Thanksgiving is still a vacation to look forward to in its own right. While the actual history has go only a side note at this point, for Americans, Thanksgiving symbolizes family unit, gratitude, and food. And football game. Simply most importantly, food. Every year, I look forward to the multicultural smorgasbord that is the result of my family unit'due south pot luck-fashion gathering at my aunt's Long Island home. I dream nigh my sis's famous macaroni and cheese, my grandmother's pernil , and any other deliciousness my aunt and cousin have created. Knowing my fam, it's a day that volition likely involve a footling bit (okay, sometimes a lot) of drama. Simply it's always worth information technology for the love—and the food.

Once we've all had a hazard to terminate off our Thanksgiving leftovers and rise from weekend-long food comas, it is then—and just then!—that it should be time to think about the fa-la-la-la-la.

I mean, for those of you who waited for Santa equally a child: Remember how exciting it was waiting up as long every bit your optics could for Santa to arrive and then you could get your presents? Imagine if you lot had been waiting...for two months, since November 1st. Past the time Christmas came effectually, you would have been rolling your eyes even if Santa himself walked right in and sat on your bed.

Why would I blitz alee before I've even had the gamble to appreciate what'southward right in front of me?

I've long been a grown-up, but I all the same get excited thinking about waking upward on Christmas morning at my parents' abode in Maryland for our almanac tradition of French toast and Luther Vandross Christmas songs equally we open presents. But I don't desire to get alee of myself. Information technology's November! Why would I blitz ahead to something cute before I've even had the chance to appreciate what's right in front of me?

Now is the moment for reveling in fall leaves and cozy sweaters and apple cider—and then, in a week or 2, the early on stages of Thanksgiving menu planning. I'thousand in no hurry to conductor in Christmas, considering earlier nosotros know it—in the glimmer of an eye!—the holiday flavour will all be over. So nosotros'll be stuck in the dreary post-holiday menses where nix exciting happens.

To each their own, Brie. Just me, personally? I'll be toasting the holiday season with a glass of egg nog and my Mariah Carey playlist—after Thanksgiving weekend.

Brie, Deputy Editor: "Christmas Starts Now!"

The fact that it'south such a special time of yr is exactly why I similar to extend the season. Once Christmas is over, all we have to await forward to is dry out skin, dead presidents, and a holiday Pandora has decreed as a mean solar day nosotros're supposed to be nice to our significant others. So, why not get in last longer?

Full disclosure here, because if Love Actually has taught me anything, information technology's that at Christmas we tell the truth. I don't put my tree up–and yes, I too alive in a studio flat, only however discover space for i—until the terminate of November. However, that's only because I similar to time my own lighting with the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree anniversary then that I can decorate to the tunes of Pentatonix cooing and feel like I'grand a part of something bigger. It'southward tradition. Merely if I had my druthers (or pull with Al Roker), I'd get that matter upwardly tomorrow.

Simply balance assured, the very moment the Authentication Channel begins its official Countdown to Christmas (this year, that was October 27), my pumpkin candles get swapped for juniper and the Santa ephemera starts taking over my 300-square-pes apartment.

Mayhap that's because Thanksgiving has always been largely stressful for me. I think many folks would agree with me that the joys of Stove Elevation just don't outweigh familial tension–something I accept to choice but to deal with, just like the under-buttered mashed potatoes. And so kicking off the jingle bells early on helps me forget about that blip on the way to the 25th.

On that note, Christmas Day itself hasn't felt particularly magical since I discovered the hot pink bean bag chair that I asked St. Nick for in my mom's closet as a kid. Still full on all seven fishes from the night before, my married man and I brand a routine morning Dunkin' run (in our new pajamas and Santa hats). And so nosotros commonly spend the afternoon watching my mom nap while contemplating if we can fit in going to the movies earlier she wakes up in time to open presents and gild Domino'due south (unremarkably after eight).

I practise nevertheless go a cozy feeling when I read the notation my mom has been leaving me "from Santa" since before I was old plenty to decipher her handwriting. But mostly, it's the menstruum leading up to this typically anticlimactic 24 hours that make me endlessly giddy. There'due south no fourth dimension of the year that your habitation volition ever look prettier than when it's adorned with twinkle lights galore, magical cloches you tin imagine yourself living in, (artificially) snow-kissed windows, glimmering everything, and of class, your very own Norway Spruce—though mine was manus-picked from Target.

There are no rules about how long those good tidings accept to last.

So knowing how fleeting this period is, why non kick off the festivities the moment the Halloween costumes are stowed away, Arianna? Every bit you (and the song) reminds us, "Christmas Comes Merely Once a Twelvemonth." But in that location are no rules about how long those good tidings have to terminal.

All that really matters is that we're aligned on the most important matter: that the holidays are the best. But I'll be over here, with my Hallmark & Chill shirt, eggnog in paw, enjoying them for a month longer than you.

When practise you lot put upwards your holiday decorations? Permit the states know in the comments beneath.

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