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To be super excited Christmas starts tomorrow!

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Imanautumn · 01/12/2025 01:17

The elves have arrived, they’ve brought advent calendars, fluffy socks, Christmas teddies, Christmas pyjamas and Christmas bedding and a Christmas book to read :) not all new things I’ve got lots from charity shops so old but new to us :) I’m so excited I love seeing my kids happy faces - tell me about your Christmas traditions!

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DappledThings · 01/12/2025 13:21

25percentoffeverything · 01/12/2025 13:11

What, at midday on Christmas Day or something? 😂

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Middle of Christmas would be NYE which is the day the seven swans start swimming.

Coffeeandbooks88 · 01/12/2025 13:19

Christmas does not start tomorrow. Advent started yesterday however.

25percentoffeverything · 01/12/2025 13:18

OP, I am with you. The Christmas SEASON if it's more acceptable to some people has officially started.

I don't bother with Christmas stuff much, apart from the advent calendars and the elf but it's the beginning of all the Christmas activities and events, and the elf makes me laugh so I will be doing it for many years to come.

From Boxing Day we start looking forward to New Year'S Eve and January things, so the tree and everything can go, Christmas has gone. Who cares if people do it diferently?

25percentoffeverything · 01/12/2025 13:11

sashh · 01/12/2025 04:56

OP I'd make a bet that you are also one of the people who takes the tree and decorations down in the middle of Xmas.

What, at midday on Christmas Day or something? 😂

BeeDavis · 01/12/2025 13:10

Justlostmybagel · 01/12/2025 06:47

All the fun suckers are here, I see. Merry Christmas, OP!

There’s some miserable fuckers in this world 😂😂

25percentoffeverything · 01/12/2025 13:10

Cynic17 · 01/12/2025 12:47

Absolutely this. Christmas starts on 25th December (I'll make an exception for 24th, when the tree can go up, good dinner, midnight Mass).
It never started on 1st December when I was a kid.

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When I was a kid, it started with St Nicholas Day - I'm just starting mine a week earlier

Catcatcat111 · 01/12/2025 13:08

I think the OP is excited for the festive season. Me too! I love 1st December, advent calendars, a nicer breakfast and starting the countdown to Christmas!

ignatiusjreilly · 01/12/2025 13:05

AngelinaFibres · 01/12/2025 13:00

But 99% of British people aren't Christians.

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Where have you got that figure from?

The latest census figures show that 46% of the UK are Christians.

BurntBroccoli · 01/12/2025 13:04

I’m looking forward to the time off but not keen on Christmas itself since being a single parent has meant I spend a lot of it alone.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 01/12/2025 13:03

Yanbu 🥰🎄

Praying4Peace · 01/12/2025 13:01

GhostsInTheWindowsAndWalls · 01/12/2025 05:01

Oh bore off. Xmas stated last week in my house. People are different, deal with it!

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I hope u have a happy Christmas.
Please be aware that Christmas isn't enjoyed by everyone, for valid reasons.
It isn't about being boring

AngelinaFibres · 01/12/2025 13:00

sashh · 01/12/2025 06:26

Would you say that to someone about Eid? Diwali? Hanukah?

For a Christian Advent is important.

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But 99% of British people aren't Christians.

Girasoli · 01/12/2025 12:55

Also Coptic Orthodox (celebrate on the 7th).

Christmas/Advent started for us yesterday - went to mass for the first Sunday of advent. Gave the DC their advent calenders this morning.

Next Christmas thing to do is to remember to post Christmas cards out. I left it too late last year.

I like Christmas but I find the run up a bit stressful (2x work parties mainly). I love the nativity (DS2), and Carol service (DS1, though just DH can go this year).

SJM1988 · 01/12/2025 12:54

Christmas in our house is determined by the kids and they decided it was today as the elves have arrived. They basically mean festive period but to them its Christmas. I like to think it starts when we do out first Christmas activity - but October was too early this year when we tagged the tree!

Elves arrived here too! They just bring advent calendars in our house. The rest comes in the Christmas eve box they leave on obviously Christmas eve.

We put our tree up yesterday (always the closest weekend to the 1st). Outside lights went up the weekend before (very early for us!) and I will finish the final house decorations this week.

Not sure how many more years DS8 will believe so making the most of it this year. Grotto trip is booked and we've got the Lap of Lights thing as Silverstone this year to look forward too. Friends meetups have been arranged too.

I've been playing the Christmas radio for a good 2 weeks so I'm well into the festive spirit already

scalt · 01/12/2025 12:52

And a slogan that went with the elves when they were new was “a Christmas tradition”. Er, no. A tradition has been in place for some time. It has echoes of “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”.

Yes, I know, it’s a children’s thing, blah blah, don’t be Scrooge (who I think was a little misunderstood).

ComedyGuns · 01/12/2025 12:51

I should add that the Christmas tree farm trees are actually cheaper than the inferior city-centre trees!

scalt · 01/12/2025 12:48

It’s Advent, not Christmas. A period of reflection, and four weeks of “getting our hearts ready”, at least, that’s what I remember from catechism.

Cynic17 · 01/12/2025 12:47

Gingernaut · 01/12/2025 02:27

It's Advent until Christmas Day

THEN it's Christmas until 6th January

Unless you're Orthodox, when it's Christmas on 7th January after a 40 day fast and other religious observances

Absolutely this. Christmas starts on 25th December (I'll make an exception for 24th, when the tree can go up, good dinner, midnight Mass).
It never started on 1st December when I was a kid.

fishtank12345 · 01/12/2025 12:45

Millytante · 01/12/2025 02:08

Since when?
And where did these bloody elves come from, while we’re at it?!
One Winter not so long ago they just appeared everywhere, though the previous year they'd have been utterly unknown, and everyone has been behaving ever since as though they had always been a part of Christmas, like the Three Kings/Wise Men, Quality Street, or the holly and the ivy!

It’s December, this is true, but it isn’t Christmas quite yet. Control yourselves (and your confounded elves)! 🤣🙏🏻🎄🦌

retail for money (just like September Christmas things in shops), Its nonsense.

ComedyGuns · 01/12/2025 12:44

Thank you OP for giving me a Christmas nudge!

I have a four hour Christmas playlist on Spotify that I start playing on 1st December. I always start with Johnny Mathis’ It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas when I get up to feed the cats, and it makes my family feel very festive.

i woke up with a streaming cold this morning though, after a big weekend in London, and completely forgot, so this thread is cheering me up no end.

In the next week or so we’ll drive to a a beautiful Christmas tree farm in the countryside to choose the tree, which really feels festive as they serve home made mince pies and coffee and have music playing and animals to pet.

nomas · 01/12/2025 12:42

Imanautumn · 01/12/2025 01:17

New Christmas bedding every year? Where do you put it all? 😮

ACatNamedRobin · 01/12/2025 12:40

Gingernaut · 01/12/2025 02:27

It's Advent until Christmas Day

THEN it's Christmas until 6th January

Unless you're Orthodox, when it's Christmas on 7th January after a 40 day fast and other religious observances

@Gingernaut
Russian Orthodox.
The Greek Orthodox rite follow the same calendar as here.

FuzzyPuffling · 01/12/2025 12:39

Maybe a new name for whatever you're doing...
Presentmas
Foodmas
Partymas
Boozemas?

But not Christmas.

MaryBeardsShoes · 01/12/2025 12:37

AhBiscuits · 01/12/2025 07:59

When people use Christmas in this context, they are just talking about the festive season.

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Well then they should say that.

MaryBeardsShoes · 01/12/2025 12:36

GhostsInTheWindowsAndWalls · 01/12/2025 05:01

Oh bore off. Xmas stated last week in my house. People are different, deal with it!

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People maybe different but you are still wrong

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