Forewarning: This is based off of my own experience, and I decided to write it all out so you could get in my head a bit.
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Halloween > Christmas
Halloween > Birthdays
Halloween is a magical time, free of stress, guilt, and hatred, when people come together and then leave almost immediately. There's also pumpkins, those various fall-colored orbs of wonder, and the calming sense of time change. One can parade around at night without fear, and each individual can feel safe within their own skin. The spirits come back to visit and party with the living, and it's truly unique and joyous. It's not about the candy, or the costumes per se, it's about having the sheer freedom to be who you are and the shared, yet individualized environment to do it in. It's also deeply spiritual if you're into that sort of thing (ie: paranormal, mediumship, etc.), but I won't get too into that since I know a lot of people aren't.
Christmas, on the other hand, is full of expenses, stress, hatred, forced and elongated Human interactions, and stuffy hot indoor environments. With companies wanting more money, and therefore putting out Christmas Decorations before they even put out Halloween ones, it's a reminder to BUY BUY BUY instead of give thanks for what you have and those around you. Christmas music blares when it's still 100 degrees outside, and it fills me with angry anticipation for when I'll be jammed inside a house with too many other people with the thermostat set at 80. I'm an artist, so I make things, and people always leave their gifts behind after I've spent upwards of 50 hours (each) painting or sewing them something especially for them. Christmas is nothing more than degrading and shaming in a formal art form. I come from a low middle class family, and to see my family's face when they couldn't afford something, or to experience such guilt when they got me something so terribly expensive... it made Christmas awful, and honestly, it still does.
I get that this is primarily my own experience.
I'm FINE with the Christmas films and music during the Christmas season because people do not share my experience. However, I will protest when it starts much too soon because it's just not okay to feel this much pressure. It's not okay to go into a grocery store and see children whining over toys and see stressed out parents that don't even know if they'll be able to pay for the few groceries in their cart. No one should feel this way, and it's just plain wrong to force it down upon everyone so darn early.
If the season was still about family, togetherness, and giving back, it would be fine, but it's not anymore. It's even tainting Thanksgiving, by making people work on the day itself and stay away from their families. It's dehumanizing and it's disgusting.
Big companies want more money.
So they put things out earlier each year at raised prices.
Whatever's left by day after is discounted to the original prices.
It's fine for Christmas things to be put up early in tourist destinations and craft/art stores because it serves a purpose. Tourists travel to be together with family, and a lot of places that appeal to them do gorgeous decorations. Crafters and artists make things to sell to people. If they can't get a hold of things months in advance, then they can't make their stock in time.
It's just this big business that Christmas has turned into.
It's just not fun, and it's not worth it, and it's been that way for the 20 years I've been coherent enough to notice it.
I'm a few weeks away from 24, so it's been two decades of guilt and shame. Imagine feeling this way about Christmas and then having your birthday in December. I'm nothing but a burden. I hate causing more stress and financial worry on top of what Christmas season brings. Even if I tell them I just want cake, they keep getting me things and it makes me so upset.
I just want to be with my family and enjoy their company, but material happiness is so jammed into people's minds and (now don't get me wrong, I love stuff, and retail therapy is great in my book, but) I just hate that it's constantly BUYBUYBUY, GIVEGIVEGIVE, and everyone rolls their eyes when it's not a commercial item that they're receiving. We're held to a falsified standard, and we're lead to believe that items make love and keep people around. Diamond rings, the latest technology, cars/hoverboards/KangooJumps. They're what's on everyone's list in some form, and if someone can't provide it for their friends or family, then it's implied that they don't love them enough, and it's revolting.
ONLY 59 MORE DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!!!!! 
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