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Thanksgiving use to be thought of the start of the holiday season. A few weeks ago, in early November I shopped around for Thanksgiving decorations. I like to shop for holiday decorations at Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby and At Home. I couldn’t find what I was looking for between those retailers.

The Thanksgiving decorations were leftover Fall decorations. The closest Thanksgiving decoration I could find was a Fall decoration that said “Thankful and Grateful”. I was looking for turkeys, Pilgrims, cornucopias or pumpkins. It’s OK if leaves and acorns are on the decoration but I didn’t want that to be the entire decoration.

The holiday season seems to start now with the first cool air of Fall. The release of pumpkin spice products for the year has eclipsed Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is wedged between Fall and Halloween and Christmas.

Christmas season crept up to right after Halloween. Thanksgiving got squeezed out.

Thanksgiving decorations may not sell well because many do not want to celebrate what it commemorates if you veer from the white washed, water down, easily digestible telling of history. I get it and I understand. I pick my battles, enjoy holidays and think turkeys dressed in Pilgrim outfits are cute. I finally found something on Temu. I found that disk with a picture of a turkey dressed up like a Puritan. It’s smaller than I would have liked but there isn’t much of a selection. I put the disk in the center of my Fall wreath. I think it turned out well.

Thank you China for making some old fashioned Thanksgiving decorations.