I'm taking a guess here, but it probably stems from the old church traditions, where the season (ie 4 weeks) before christmas is technically advent and it's not christmas until the baby jesus is born & you've been to church and paid your tithes. OR Possibly it's some kind of response to the pagan Yule, held around the winter solstice (20/21st Dec). I imagine that early european church leaders would have frowned upon any kind of christmassy celebrations during the yule period - especially because most of the 'christmas traditions' are actually 100% old pagan customs LOL.
Or it might've been some kind of excuse that parents used to get the kids off their back or to save mum from an extra month of vaccuuming pine needles up off the floor
Realistically though - in the past, christmas was much simpler and involved less expenditure and preparation. The Dec 1st thing sounds like a sane reaction to a commercial world gone crazy.
Last edited by AnyDream; November 2nd, 2013 at 10:55 AM.
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