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15 Signs You're Obsessed With The Holidays

by Jaime Ritter

November 29, 2015

If you are completely obsessed with the holidays like I am, there are certain things you know to be true. Like, for instance, you still hate the gap-toothed jerk in the second grade who tried to tell you Santa isn't real. But, like your mom said, "The day you stop believing is the day you stop receiving." So, you keep on believing, and keep on obsessing over the holidays, girl.

It doesn't matter if you are the only 20-something in line to see Santa at the mall, or that you send out pictures of you and your dog in matching Christmas sweaters as holiday cards each and every year. If you are the kind of person who relates more to Buddy the Elf than most other humans this time of year, keep reading. There is a special place on the Internet for holiday-obsessed people, and you have found that place. Congratulations, my friend.

So raise your milk and cookies, grab your dreidel, and put on your tacky holiday sweater — because you are in for a treat. No matter what it is you are celebrating this time of year, here are 15 things all people who are obsessed with the holidays know to be true.

1. You start watching holiday movies the day after Halloween

Beginning with Nightmare Before Christmas, of course.

2. You have a lucky dreidel

Eight crazy nights? More like 40 — you start early. THOSE CHOCOLATE COINS WILL BE MINE, GRANDMA.

3. Decorating the tree is a ritual

GET AWAY FROM THE CRANBERRIES, BOBBY. YOU'RE NOT STRINGING THEM RIGHT.

4. Holiday shopping is your cardio

Let's just call it like we see it — you totally give the best gifts.

5. Your wrapping paper is always on point

Saks Fifth Avenue has nothing on your wrapping skills... probably because you have a closet dedicated to fancy bows and wrapping paper.

6. You have two — OK, 10 — holiday-themed Pinterest boards that you update on the reg

If you had the money, your house would totally look like Santa's enchanted dream house, and you'd bake perfect red and green sprinkled cookies and decorate your fireplace mantel all day long. Why do you have to do things like WORK? Ugh.