What date do you decorate for autumn?

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I have got some lovely autumn decorative bits but not sure what date I should start putting them out.
Is 1st September too early ?

Absolutely agree.

This thread has reminded me about this song I had forgotten that I loved singing at school
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Oh I love Autumn so so much! 🍂🍄🔥

1st of Never

what's extreme about decorating for Halloween?

do you hold Christmas tat to the same standards? or just the celebrations you don't enjoy.

I've got Halloween "tat" that is on display year round, or that comes out year after year, the same as my Christmas tree that is easily 20 years old and still going strong (absolute bargain. a black tree from M&S that was reduced to £25 and still looks as good as the day I got it)
have you never justified buying something plastic that you will use for years? maybe even decades?

nothing wrong with being a bit Wicker Man. great film with a great vibe to it.

BUT the Wicker Man is nothing to do with Autumn. it's about the Beltane celebrations. so, first of may. completely other end of the cycle.

I’ve just had a couple of gorgeous orange chrysanthemums delivered. I will place them in the garden along with some pumpkins and light some cinnamon candles.

exactly. that's WHY you decorate seasonally. to bring some nature and warmth and cosiness indoors when it's dull and grey

Oh How I want to tell you to do one. Are you so jealous of Americans?

Where do you store it all out of season? I’ve got no room cos I have way too many Xmas decs, so in summer/spring I don’t have storage for Xmas and autumn. I figured it would stay a us only thing cos they tend to have massive basements.

I've got Halloween decorations I've had for decades. some is displayed year round. My Christmas tree is also a good 20 years old, easily. still looks as good as the day I bought it.

why are my decades old Halloween decorations that I add to as and when I find something I love any more environmentally destructive than my Christmas decorations?

especially as only some of the Halloween ones get packed away until next year

probably 20 or more years ago, I made a pentagram shaped door wreath out of birch branches and copper wire. I wire different greenery, berries, flowers and so on onto it, and replace it when it becomes old and shabby. which means it changes with the seasons. it has seasonal foliage, fruits and flowers.

that's not American or newer than 5 years in the U.K.

get your vitamin D levels tested. I've always had really bad S.A.D. and it turned out I pretty much can't absorb it to normal levels. full RDI supplements help the fatigue and joint pain it causes. and they help the S.A.D. even though the doctors said the link between the two is tenuous. it's helped me a lot, more than things like daylight lamps and so on.

why should only Christians get to enjoy the changing of the seasons?

JumpingBird,where do you live.? I had a Christmas tree from Woolworths over 30 years, only then given to the charities shop because we downsized,the one I have now is getting on for 20. I theme Christmas, but the decorations are donkeys years old. The newest ones I knitted out of oddments when my dog was a puppy.... she kept pinching them. She was 9 in may.

Crowley Kitten, obviously you can do whatever you like. I think I was down heartened at the thought of another thing I might have to do plus expense plus environment. I'm not a churchgoer now but it came to me that we have always celebrated autumn through harvest festivals, a fading tradition.
If people want to decorate with autumn leaves or whatever, fine. I can't see the point of pumpkins at all though and hate the waste.

Know your place, pleb! Americans are beneath even the British working class according to Mumsnet class hierarchy 🙄🤪

I came on this thread as I love autumn and thought I'd find others who enjoyed it as much as I do but from what I've seen people have just come on the thread to be judgemental and rude I find it so bizarre you would even comment if it's not something your interested in doing scroll on.
I love decorating for autumn I have autumnal cushions,garlands mugs I change my candles for ones with autumnal scents. The decorations I have are ones I reuse each year I might add small things each year just as I do with christmas I use natural items such as conkers, pine cones etc to decorate with also. I will probably put my things out mid September but if you want to put yours out now Op you go for it do what makes you happy nothing wrong with that, enjoy!! 🍁🍂🌰

I have different weights of duvet but, other than that, I don't comprehend "summer bits".

All my coats live in the coat cupboard all year around and all my clothes live in the wardrobe all year around. My blankets live in the storage footstool all year around.

I can need the electric blanket in August so I don't dare to put any warm items where I can't reach them easily.

Do you not decorate in a cosy way to start with? I didn't paint my bedroom in an uncosy way, I painted it a kind of off-white with buttermilk carpetting to make it seem warmer.

I wonder if this desire to put autumn leaves in the house is a consequence of the recent trend for prison grey walls and laminate floors.

In Spring/Summer I don't have the need for warm tones on top of the normal colours in the house, I have actually a lot less on window sills as I have the windows open all the time so things fall down when it's a bit windy.

In autumn/winter I obviously air the house but not all day long.

I also don't need the blankets everywhere, they are in the wardrobe, not on the sofa.

And candles with maple leaves in the wax or gnomes in orange/brown with leaf motives don't really fit in other times of the year.

I’ve seen the error of my ways. Off to buy a buttermilk carpet forthwith. Absolutely no need for a pretty tea light holder if my carpet is buttermilk.

And candles with maple leaves in the wax or gnomes in orange/brown with leaf motives don't really fit in other times of the year.

I think our home decor tastes are sufficiently wildly different to explain why I don't feel any need to decorate for autumn. Houseplants and sci-fi models and retro video games memorabilia look in-place all year around.

I can't have candles because of DCat.

Thing is, I don’t care. I have no opinion on how other people decorate or how they spend their money.