It’s a cliché that the holiday season seems to start earlier and earlier every year. I don’t mind it, though. I get into the Christmas season — probably because I’m Jewish.

In the mid-80s, I used to watch “Days of our Lives” religiously (pardon the pun.) One year, on the Christmas episode, the Brady and Horton clans gathered around and sang cloyingly religious songs like “Silent Night.” My dad remarked that the writers were probably Jews who were trying to imagine what Christmas must be like for the Christians.

Anyway, one reason the holiday season is so long this year is because Thanksgiving was the earliest it could possibly be. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November, so it ranges from November 22 to November 28. This year it was on November 22. That’s 33 days before Christmas.

The earliness was brought home this past Saturday night, December 1. We went to the Big Apple Corps’s holiday concert. It was great, but they played lots of holiday music, and at the end there was a big holiday singalong.

On December 1.

Even worse, in early November, Matt and I went to Macy’s to buy a couch, and the furniture department was fully decked out for the holidays. Trees covered with lights, golden angels, stuffed animals, depictions of Santa, holiday music blasting from the speakers. I joked to a saleswoman that she must be sick of it already and she said yeah, especially because the holiday display had been up since September.

Soon enough, New Year’s Eve will come, and we’ll all go to bed, and we’ll wake up the next morning, and just like that, the holiday season will be over and we’ll have a long, dark winter ahead. That always makes me sad.

So enjoy it while you can.

As a reminder, my chorus, the Empire City Men’s Chorus, is having its holiday concert this Friday night, December 7, at 8:00 pm, on West End Ave. and 86th Street. If you’re around, I hope you can make it.