OutKick⁠97%

Is December 26 Too Soon To Take Your Christmas Decorations Down?⁠97%

By Austin Perry⁠0%

12/26/2025, 5:31:25 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Out-Group Homogeneity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Horn Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 55.2% saturation with 235 hits. Analysis detected 1,871 faulty-reasoning hits from 426 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠97% (761 of 20,497 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 96.30% of the article peer group.

Maybe let the holiday breathe for a few days before you tear down every reminder of Christmas. 
So, a funny thing happened when I went to take my dogs out for a walk this morning. 
Right before I hopped on to start writing for the day, as I was walking the pups for their morning poops, I spotted one of my neighbors tearing down their Santa Claus inflatable while also stripping the lights off their roof. 
I was floored, mostly because it was 7:30 in the morning and I couldn't fathom doing any hard labor that early in the morning, but I was also taken aback because they were taking their Christmas decorations down the day after the holiday. 
You could argue that Christmas doesn't even end unofficially until after New Year's Day at the earliest, so the fact that this absolute Scrooge is out here ripping down his holiday cheer at the earliest possible convenience is psychotic. 
I've made the argument in the past that people who put their holiday decorations up too early are people that I never want to be associated with (in part because of my inherent procrastination), but I'd also argue that anyone who takes their decorations down this soon is a legitimate psychopath. 
At that point, you might as well just not put up any decorations at all; what's the point in this instance? 
I scoured the social media-verse to see if anyone else did something so diabolical, and it turns out there are some real sickos on X. 
Making a family tradition out of taking your decorations down on the 26th is pretty sick behavior, and saying you're "sick of looking at it" probably means you were never in the Christmas spirit to begin with. 
I still have a hard time knowing people like this exist, but I guess these are the same people that those Anne Hathaway "psychopath HR director/boss" memes are about. 
Regardless of where you fall in this argument, just know that there is a right and a wrong answer. 
I'm not asking you to keep your tree up until April (though that's your prerogative, and I can appreciate some good laziness from time to time), but how about we give the holiday season a little time to breathe before it's "on to 2026?" 
Some of us are conservatives, others are liberals, but I'm hoping we can all band together and stop this assault on Christmas. 
Ah, who am I kidding, this is probably a liberal movement anyway. 
We are on our own, boys and girls. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 10.1%Austin Perry: 0.8%Outkick: 0.6%Actor-Observer Bias10.1%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 3.4%Outkick: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 8.8%Outkick: 5.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 4.5%Austin Perry: 0.8%Outkick: 0.4%Blind-Spot Bias4.5%This article: 8.7%Austin Perry: 10.4%Outkick: 8.8%Confirmation Bias8.7%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.0%Outkick: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 10.3%Austin Perry: 14.6%Outkick: 12.5%Framing Effect10.3%This article: 11.5%Austin Perry: 5.4%Outkick: 3.2%Fundamental Attribution Error11.5%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 5.6%Outkick: 5.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 1.1%Outkick: 1.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 42.5%Austin Perry: 2.5%Outkick: 1.3%Horn Effect42.5%This article: 31.0%Austin Perry: 11.6%Outkick: 5.1%In-Group Bias31.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 2.1%Outkick: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 10.1%Austin Perry: 17.1%Outkick: 12.8%Negativity Bias10.1%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 7.2%Outkick: 4.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 45.3%Austin Perry: 5.5%Outkick: 2.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias45.3%This article: 4.5%Austin Perry: 5.2%Outkick: 6.1%Overconfidence Bias4.5%This article: 16.0%Austin Perry: 3.4%Outkick: 2.5%Pessimism Bias16.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.4%Outkick: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 5.4%Outkick: 3.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 2.5%Outkick: 2.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 4.4%Outkick: 3.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%Austin Perry: 2.6%Outkick: 1.3%Status Quo Bias14.3%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.2%Outkick: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 42.5%Austin Perry: 5.7%Outkick: 4.0%Ad Hominem42.5%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 1.0%Outkick: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 10.4%Outkick: 4.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 3.7%Outkick: 3.6%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 55.2%Austin Perry: 16.4%Outkick: 10.0%Appeal to Emotion55.2%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.1%Outkick: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 5.2%Austin Perry: 4.6%Outkick: 2.4%Bandwagon5.2%This article: 4.5%Austin Perry: 2.7%Outkick: 1.7%Begging the Question4.5%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.4%Outkick: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.1%Outkick: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.6%Outkick: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 21.4%Austin Perry: 3.2%Outkick: 2.3%False Dilemma21.4%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.0%Outkick: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 2.8%Austin Perry: 1.5%Outkick: 0.7%Genetic Fallacy2.8%This article: 45.3%Austin Perry: 19.1%Outkick: 11.5%Hasty Generalization45.3%This article: 10.3%Austin Perry: 0.7%Outkick: 0.2%Middle Ground10.3%This article: 8.7%Austin Perry: 1.0%Outkick: 0.4%No True Scotsman8.7%This article: 21.8%Austin Perry: 1.0%Outkick: 0.7%Personal Incredulity21.8%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 2.5%Outkick: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 2.8%Austin Perry: 2.4%Outkick: 1.2%Red Herring2.8%This article: 4.9%Austin Perry: 2.3%Outkick: 1.1%Slippery Slope4.9%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 1.6%Outkick: 1.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 5.2%Austin Perry: 2.4%Outkick: 2.0%Straw Man5.2%This article: 0.0%Austin Perry: 0.2%Outkick: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%

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