What's My Holiday Again?

     Thanksgiving is just next Thursday, and there are already a ton of places decorated for Christmas.  Sure, there are a few inflatable turkeys out there.  Strangely enough, they are almost always the same one, although I have seen at least one with a different facial expression.  I mean, should all of these turkeys look so happy for Thanksgiving?  This one turkey I saw was more sullen than happy, but that is understandable.  This year, the house that had the zombie pilgrim its hand place just below its belt in a suggestive manner didn't do anything this year.  It had over a dozen figures, the last of which was taken down barely a week ago.  However, the 'Beetlejuice' mannequin is still on the porch, if you know where to look for it.  More importantly, many people started to decorate for Christmas the days after Halloween.  I feel that is just a little too early.  In the pace of a few days, many homes started to go all out this week. One home, that I don't usually pass, had put up over a dozen inflatables in the yard over the past two days. They weren't up today, but I could see them lying on the grass.  The weirdest thing though is the number of places with Halloween decorations still up.  Now, I'm not talking about generic autumnal decor, because that is still appropriate for the season.  No, I'm talking about actual things that could only be for Halloween.  For instance, the stable that had multiple skeletons, including one of a horse, didn't take them down until this past weekend.  The house with the skeleton climbing a pole still has it up, although almost the rest of its autumn decor has been removed.  Just this morning, I drove by a house which still had cloth 'ghosts' hanging from a tree and other decorations on its porch.  Two weeks is more than enough time to take everything down.  For my store, I will start taking down the leaves this Friday so that the window can be cleaned before the big Christmas decorating starts.  The rest of the stuff will come down by next Monday.  Everything for Christmas should be up by the day after Thanksgiving, but it probably won't.  If it was up only to me, everything would be done by then.  I've done it once before, without any help.  However, if I delegate some chores, my part get done faster, but their tasks take at least a day longer than I think they should.  There might be a few new details this year, but it's too early to know for sure.