Without doubt, I can say that I have a strong bias towards autumn and winter as far as seasons go. It’s the coziest time of year, and I look for any excuse to wear giant sweaters and get decorating. Whether you elect to participate in the insane commercialism of winter holidays, you can’t deny the special feelings of joy and love they plant in your heart. Sometimes they also plant the desire to buy one, get one free or to increase the risk of burning your home down with all the Yankee Candles, but there’s a lot of great stuff about this time of year. Today, I sat down to evaluate all season of the year for what they have to offer, but in the end, there’s nothing like the holidays, even if they’re extremely cold and you can’t feel your toes anymore.

1. Spring

Pros:

- Cute baby animals are born

- Blooming flowers

- School is almost over

- Ideal balmy weather

Cons:

- No cool holidays

- Final exams

- School isn’t over yet

2. Summer

Pros:

- The ice cream truck

- Maxi dresses

- Thunderstorms

- When you get into a car and the seats and seatbelt burn you

- Pools

- Lots of BBQs

- Being able to waste away hours of your life playing Sims

- Camps, if that’s your thing

Cons:

- Chasing the ice cream truck for several blocks in the sweltering heat

- Melting lipstick

- Your favorite TV shows are probably on hiatus

- Sweating all the time

- Mosquitos

- Gross smells are magnified by the heat

3. Autumn

Pros:

- Crunchy leaves

- Halloween

- Pumpkin pie

- The probable release of a new Taylor Swift album

- Sweater weather

- Apple cider

- Candles

- Apple picking

- Flannel

Cons:

- Going back to school

- Apple usually announces how they’ve essentially downgraded their next product

4. Winter

Pros:

- Hot chocolate with marshmallows

- Lights strung up in trees

- Snow

- Fluffy bathrobes

- Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales

- Everything seems more spirited and cozy

- All the holidays! Hannukah, Festivus, Groundhog Day, Kwanzaa, Super Bowl Sunday, and plenty more

- Ice skating

- Starbucks’ holiday coffee flavors

- Cheerful Christmas music

- Sledding

- The Victoria’s Secret Annual Fashion Show

- Sweaters with tiny bells on them

- The chocolate on sale after V Day

- News Years Eve kisses

Cons:

- Travelling

- Stores that make employees come to work on holidays

- Those f***boys who still wear basketball shorts when it’s thirty degrees outside

- Yanking at car doors that got frozen shut

- The “Christmas Shoes” song

- Snow

- Freezing temperatures, sometimes accompanied by fierce wind

- The extreme commercialism

-Black ice