Who knows when the Christmas season really begins?

For those who don't follow the liturgical calendar, it basically begins and ends whenever they are accustomed to beginning and ending it.

For the rest of us, Christmas begins on the evening of the last day of Advent and ends at Epiphany.

Businesses do. They once petitoned FDR to move Thanksgiving back a week so that they could start the Christmas shopping season earlier. He did, but the uproar became so great that it was moved forward to it's present day and locked in forever.

I have seen some businesses start putting up Christmas decorations and sending out catalogs in August, saying "It takes time to fill customers' orders, so we need to start now so they can choose and get their orders by Christmas."

Uh huh. These are also the same merchants that wail that people aren't spending enough over the holidays, and they aren't seeing the profit margins that they desire.

The only "jingle bells" that matter any more are those of the cash registers, it seems. Maybe we should change our motto from "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to " Life, Liberty and the pursuit of profit".

It starts once you decide on it to start and as much as Christmas Day. For retail it starts on Black Friday. frequently the day after Thanksgiving- although some shops began on Thanksgiving Day this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and ends frequently Christmas Eve.

January first through December 31

According to Wal-Mart, September.

Wal Mart does. They start putting up the decorations the 2nd week of September.

it begins when you start going broke faster

whenever you start to keep it in your heart every day