{"id":2103,"date":"2019-09-27T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:26:54","slug":"week-263-start-talking-about-the-holidays-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Week #263 – Start talking about the holidays NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Tis the Season!” (photo credit: Grace Church)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Week #263 – Start talking about the holidays NOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings all — and Happy Friday!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I’m going to revisit one of the five ideas I posted last week<\/a> on ways to Welcome Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I know it’s going to ruffle some turkey feathers again this year…but here it goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#5 – START TALKING ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS NOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(To see the other four ideas…check out Week #262<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week I acknowledged that this one is a little controversial because nobody likes to be rushed into the holidays…but waiting until November 29th to start talking about who is spending which holiday where is too late! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially this year, with one of the shortest “holiday” seasons possible: only 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve this year — versus 32 in 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me repeat that: 26 DAYS!!!<\/span> (That’s not even four full weeks!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I don’t know about you but I like to enjoy Thanksgiving Weekend for what it is (a very rare 4-day holiday weekend) — not some violent induction into the 2019 Holiday Season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO GET OUT AHEAD OF IT!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas and New Year’s are literally 3 months away. \u00a0That’s just the end of baseball season, Halloween, Election Day, and one Thanksgiving Day away…and BAM! They’re HERE!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, give yourself the gift of a well-planned holiday season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Happyness Challenge for the Week Ahead: Start talking about the holidays NOW! <\/strong>Some of you may be nodding your heads in agreement…and others may be wanting to choke me through the screen.  I’m okay with that…because if this post helps even one person get ahead of their holiday, I’m willing to take that risk!  \ud83d\ude42  This year, give yourself the gift of a well-planned holiday season.  Start planning…NOW!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And chances are, no matter what you do, you’re probably going to disappoint at least one person anyway…make sure it isn’t yourself!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spread Happyness — Too soon?  Share your thoughts in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9\/27\/19 by Grace Church
\u00a9 Grace Church
grace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week #263 – Start talking about the holidays NOW! Greetings all — and Happy Friday!!! This week I’m going to revisit one of the five ideas I posted last week on ways to Welcome Fall. And I know it’s going to ruffle some turkey feathers again this year…but here it goes: #5 – START TALKING ABOUT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}