Today, people might start saving for Christmas in September or even in August. However, the Christmas season really starts right after Thanksgiving. Street lights and store windows are decorated in the traditional Christmas colors of red and green. Snowmen, Santa Clauses, and Nativity scenes appear in many shop windows. Many people decorate their homes with colored lights, and evergreens , Christmas trees, holly wreaths , and mistletoe are common sights.
Young men enjoy mistletoe very much, because they can kiss any girl they find standing under it.
Thus many fraternities hang mistletoe at the entrance, and some young men carry a piece of mistletoe with them and hold it above the head of whichever girl they want to kiss. People send Christmas cards to their families, relatives, friends and business customers. They may put the cards that they have received on the wall, the mantle , or hang them on a string, as Christmas cards are very colorful and beautiful. During the Christmas season, Christmas carols are heard all over, on radio, on TV, in church, and at school. Many people do Christmas shopping in December.