( CNN ) -- It 's now a week after New Years Day . Can we please stop saying , `` Happy New Year ? '' Telling people `` Happy New Year '' more than a week after the first of the year is like keeping your Christmas lights up until February . It 's tacky . And I grew up in New Jersey ; I know a thing or two about tacky . Plus it 's bad New Year 's etiquette . That 's not just me talking , that 's the opinion of etiquette expert Crystal Seamon-Primas , founder of the South Jersey School of Etiquette . ( Stop laughing . We are not all `` Jersey Shore . '' ) Seamon-Primas told me : `` In my opinion , after the first week , I stop wishing others a Happy New Year , the new year is well on its way . '' The biggest reason we need to stop New Year 's wishes weeks into the year is that it sounds so insincere . Hollow , not heartfelt , like something you say to a co-worker you really do n't know well to fill an awkward silence , a small step up from , `` That 's some weather we 're having , huh ? '' The same goes for the insincerity you detect when people greet you a few days after January 1 with the question : `` So how 's your new year been so far ? '' Really ? You are actually asking if I have survived the first `` grueling '' 48 hours of the year ? If you really care about how my year is going , ask me in October . Look : No one says `` Happy Thanksgiving '' on December 1 . I never heard anyone offer a `` Happy Fourth of July '' on July 6 . And when is the last time you heard a `` Happy St. Patrick 's Day '' on March 19 ? Even with the big religious holidays , well wishing starts before the holiday and stops with its occurrence . Go ahead and joyfully exchange wishes of `` Have a Merry Christmas '' the week before the holiday through Christmas Day , but not on December 29 . Happy Hanukah greetings are fine throughout the eight-day holiday but not after . And Ramadan wishes are contained within the 30 days of the holy month and stop with the Eid celebration at the month 's end . Tech : Losing New Year 's resolve ? Google wants to help . Sure , I get it : It 's a wish for a full year , not just a day . But among the vast array of omens that predict good fortune for the coming year , not one involves saying Happy New Year 's for weeks on end . Believe me , there are some odd superstitions out there that will supposedly bring you luck for the year , from kissing a loved one as the clock strikes midnight to writing your new year 's wishes on a piece of paper and planting it in the ground to eating lentils or black-eyed peas on New Year 's Day . There are even admonitions to avoid certain activities on New Year 's Day because they portend bad luck for the coming year . One such superstition tells us that eating poultry on New Year 's Day means you will financially struggle for the coming year , which I really wish I had known before I ate chicken with mixed vegetables on January 1 . If even one custom instructed us that extended New Year 's wishes would increase the chances the year would indeed be a good one , I 'd be saying Happy New Year 's every day until April . But none do . Consequently , I propose that from here out we need to come together in a bipartisan fashion -- as a lesson to our dysfunctional Congress -- and stop with New Year 's wishes after the first seven days of the year . If someone does offer you such a greeting two or three weeks into the New Year , do n't be rude , simply explain that it 's like wishing someone Happy Valentines Day on February 18 . In time , hopefully we 'll all be on the same page on this issue . However , even if you are reading this after January 7 , I still sincerely wish you , and your family , a very happy and healthy New Year . But this is the very last time I will say that in 2013 . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dean Obeidallah .
Dean Obeidallah : You can stop saying Happy New Year now . It 's tacky and too late . Even New Jersey School of Law president said after the first week , stop . He says we do n't say Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukah when those holidays are over . Obeidallah : It gets progressively more insincere . We agree to cut off the greeting at 7 ##am .