There is a disgraceful pattern of temptation spreading throughout living rooms all over the world. Some people think it’s ok to put up their winter holiday decorations on Nov. 1.

There should be no debate as to when decorations for each holiday should be put up. When a major holiday ends, you may begin to decorate for the next major holiday. To anyone who puts winter holiday decorations up after Halloween: you’re wrong. Putting up winter holiday decorations in early November is like ordering fish at a steakhouse. It’s a joke. It’s laughable.

It isn’t Christmas time yet on Nov. 1. It just isn’t. November is fall. Christmas is in the winter. It’s that simple. I don’t want the sun shining and leaves falling in front of someone’s Christmas tree.

If you get a Christmas tree in early November, then when you wake up Christmas morning, you deserve to see it gone.

If you can wait a couple weeks until after Thanksgiving it’s the perfect time. That’s the real start of the winter holiday season. That “tis the season.”

The joyous Christmas season is different from the Halloween season and mixing them is like pouring hot sauce over spaghetti.

The depressing Seattle gray winter will be arriving soon and having some good holiday tunes going in the background while decorating your house is unbeatable. It’ll stop the sad and murky nature of Seattle in December from setting in. It allows you to find a way to not think about how the constant raining and gray skies makes you feel miserable. Why do it in the middle of fall? That ruins the potential immaculate vibes of decorating in the winter. That’s wrong. So wait. Resist the temptation.