As I’ve begun celebrating the solar and mid solar holidays the creeping of Christmas has gotten so much more irritating. Let the solstice celebration happen at the solstice. I don’t want to deal with winter solstice themed stuff while I’m celebrating Mabon and Samhain. It screws with the sense of connection to time and seasons.

[–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, and that's not even accounting for how insanely corporatized those holidays are. I guess that you're supposed to have fun and enjoy the celebration but after a certain point it feels like these solstice holidays have become ads.

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Become? Santa as we know him was litterally a Coca Cola ad.

[–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Become, because I imagine they didn't start that way.

[–] amtwon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The Night before Christmas is from 1823 tho