When November first hits a big question is asked: How soon is too soon to celebrate and decorate for Christmas? Many people around the nation celebrate the holiday and there are lots of different opinions on whether Christmas should be celebrated before or after Thanksgiving. 

Waynesburg University students had opinions to go around. Some on one end of the question, while others were on the complete opposite side. Freshman Samuel Norris said, “As soon as Halloween is over, it is time for Christmas. Anything before that is a little crazy, but as soon as November first hits, Christmas goes up. My house gets very crazy. We are already decorated.” 

Another freshman, Sydney Brown, agreed with that statement.

“It’s never too early to decorate and we go all out at my house. We get the real tree and everything,” Brown said

Junior Aubrey Burns was one student who was in between one extreme and the other, saying, “I think about halfway through November is an appropriate time to start to decorate for Christmas. I’m not a big fan of the Nov. 1, decorations, but sometimes Thanksgiving is so late, it doesn’t give enough turnaround time for Christmas.”

Seniors Ryan Martin and Caroline Poole, junior Hudson Pincavitch and freshman Simba Dubé let the turkey have its time, and all agreed on waiting to celebrate Christmas.

Martin said, “I would have to say the earliest you start celebrating Christmas would have to be after Thanksgiving.”

 “I think that decorating for Christmas is so ‘slay’ if you start around Nov. 28, at night. I feel like you got to let Thanksgiving have its time to shine,” Poole said.

Along with Poole, Pincavitch said, “I think you have to wait till after Thanksgiving. It’s only fair it gets its time to shine, and it’s always overshadowed by Christmas.”

“I think anything Christmas before Dec. 1, is too early,” Dubé said. 

It’s safe to say that the majority of the students interviewed believed that Thanksgiving should have its time, and then Christmas can be celebrated thereafter. 

Along with determining how soon students think they should be celebrating Christmas, they were also asked how extravagant the decorations get at their homes?

Norris went into depth on what his house looks like around his definition of Christmas time. 

“We have at least two trees in each room. We have a room that has 10 or more stockings. We have all sorts of lights inside and outside the house with different pictures and paintings of Christmas throughout the house. A snowy village on the piano. Christmas music playing nonstop. It gets crazy,” Norris said.

Poole explained her family doesn’t quite go all out.

 “It doesn’t get too crazy. I’d say we decorate more cozy than anything. We do lights outside and a big wreath and then a Christmas tree, stockings over our fireplace and a little Christmas village,” Poole said.

Martin, along with the other students, wanted to express how much he enjoys the setting up for Christmas. 

“I absolutely love decorating my house. We do the basic stuff, just putting up lights and stuff but it’s fun to do with my family. Seeing it all come together is amazing, then putting on some Christmas music too is great,” he said.

As Martin just pointed out, Christmas music is a part of the holiday season. With this being a staple of the holiday, some University students gave some of their favorite songs that revolve around the holiday.Martin listed, “White Christmas” as his top choice. Poole and Norris both listed two songs, withNorris liking, “It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas” while Poole added, “Christmas This Year” by Toby Mac, while then both agreed “Jingle Bell Rock” was another top song for them. Burns and Dubé both agreed on “Santa Clause is Coming to Town,” but Dubé added that it must be the version by “The Jackson 5.”

There were even more songs to go around with the Christmas season, but nonetheless, throughout the nation people either think Thanksgiving should have its time or they don’t with the going here for the students on campus. It seems that based on the ones interviewed here at WU, Thanksgiving ought to have its time before Ole’ Saint Nick comes to town.