“At some point, you have to stop letting Halloween stand between you and your calling.” SUBURBAN AMERICA — Local homeowner Melissa Garland began decorating for Christmas at 12:01 a.m. November 1, ending what she described as “an extremely difficult period of restraint.” “I wanted to respect the other holidays,” Garland explained, dragging a nine-foot artificial spruce past a trick-or-treater who had not yet reached the sidewalk. “But they’ve had their time.” Her husband, Brian, confirmed that preparations had been underway for several weeks, although Melissa insisted that assembling the tree in the garage, testing the lights, and replacing the family photographs with winter landscapes did not technically constitute decorating. “That was infrastructure,” she said. The transition began at midnight, when the household’s final pumpkin was removed from the porch while still containing a lit candle. By 12:04, the front door bore a wreath large enough to require visitors to enter sideway...
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