As with all things, Christmas is what you make of it. ... What is shown on TV and what is displayed in the stores has very little to do with it. Perfectly stated.
If you don't get excited about store displays and don't watch a lot of television, then Christmas is still a religious celebration. That has not diminished at all.
Thanksgiving is, thankfully, still very uncommercial.
Halloween: This year, on October 31, I came home from work at 5 pm to my completely undecorated house, helped the kids carve a pumpkin, put a few plastic decorations outside and took the kids trick or treating. The decorations were down by 8 pm and the pumpkins were in the garbage the next morning. Three hours of Halloween is about all that I can take.
Kidd, that is excactly what our house did also. my hubby carved the pumpkins the kids brought home from the pumpkin farm around 4:00pm we took the kids out about5:00pm were back home 6:30ish and done with the whole thing. i do not decorate my home for halloween,i dont like halloween.i never have,even as a kid. we lived so far out of town we didnt do halloween. now i do decorate for thanksgiving and christmas and i start on the 1st of nov. i love the thanksgiving/christmas season.