This morning, a radio personality marveled at someone who hadn't taken her Christmas tree out of the box yet. He found this puzzling, as waiting would mean that "the tree is only up for two weeks."
I thought about how much the world has changed over the last 40 years, and how, outside of stores, most people didn't used to put up their Christmas trees as early as they often do now. It amuses me now that one columnist wrote back then that it wasn't proper to put up the tree until Christmas Eve.
That's a degree of willpower that most people, including me, don't have these days.
