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 ?

What.... why?

I suppose if you want to take the time, effort and money then fine. I tend to change my perfumes with the seasons so I suppose changing your cushion coverrs is just a version of that really

Blimey. I struggle just to keep the house tidy, never mind seasonal decorating. I do still have the fairy lights round the fireplace that I put up last Christmas if that counts.

My grandmother used to 'decorate for autumn'. What this actually meant was she changed the curtains to the thick winter ones (and washed and put away the light weight summer curtains). Moved the dining table away from the window to the other side of the room as it was too cold to sit close to the window in winter. Got the blankets and draught excluders out of the cupboards. Took the deck chairs out of the lean-to and put them in the garage.

When I lived in a cold house with curtains, I had summer and winter curtains. Is that the same thing?

I used to work for a homewares retailer. Their busiest month is October not December because of all the people that decorate for autumn/winter. Some customers had decorations/ different homewares for every season. Add shein and temu selling this ridiculousness and the retailers really are winning.

You should do it today if it makes you happy.

I live in an EU country where lots of families decorate for each season, usually with a mix of natural stuff collected from the forest and ceramics and wooden items they bring out every year. Porches, doorsteps, wreaths on doors and window sills seem to be very commonly decorated for each season and extra added for a week or so before Christmas and Easter.

I don't do it but it's nice to see as long as you're not using disposable plastic tat (which here a few people do, especially at Christmas and Easter).

Surely you clean and wash things sometimes and need to put a replacement out.

Weirdly my mam used to do this to a point but it was more changing the curtains to more autumn/winter ones. She did it every year then again towards the middle of Spring. I’m sure it was something people did years ago as I know my grandparents both did it. But definitely nothing more than that

It mostly IS plastic rat though.

Here are some of them,not quite displayed properly, yet. We made about half a dozen last year, along with some felted toadstools. This week I'm going to felt some acorns and conkers.

(They are currently sitting on top of a whole frame of honey in a glass box, in case anyone is wondering. It's for our stall at our village scarecrow Festival next weekend)

That is quite hot! For September!

I believe we may have thunderstorms later I hope so!

I like seeing autumn stuff in shops but I'm not going to waste my time, money and space decorating for Autumn/Halloween/Christmas (yes I'm a Grinch and have the socks and a Bah! Humbug hat)/Valentine's/Spring/Easter/Summer. Commercialism at it's worst and people are sucked into the idea. I bet the people who think they should are the ones that sulkily whinged when they were children "but everyone in the class has one". When in reality they didn't.

😂😂😂 Yeah this

İs it plastic orange leaf garlands with a pumpkin shaped fruit bowl and a grey wooden plaque which says 'wolly hats and hugs' hanging on the wall? İf so, I'm out.

Indeed. I'm waiting for the lists of autumn themed activities and requests for suggestions for filling "countdown to autumn" boxes to appear from those worried about whether they have "done enough" for their children and teens this autumn...

I’ve got cobwebs on my living room ceiling and a pigeon has pooed near the window, if that’s the sort of thing you mean?

You have to clean curtains?!

Jokes aside, no I wash them every couple of years on a sunny day and rehang the same day.

Can barely be bothered to decorate for Christmas. Do not decorate for any other reason.

I ventured into TKMaxx last week, it was full of Autumn decorations.
I nearly bought towels and tea towels with harvest designs and then I had a sharp word with myself.

@RainbowZebraWarrior they are fabulous and I love that you've made them yourself too ☺️

Never been a thing for me! Halloween when the kids were little yes.

I'll be starting this week. I needle felted pumpkins last year and have a few that I've bought here and there to go out. Starting to slowly take summer blankets away and wash and change into the cosier ones. Still have the summer duvet on as it's still quite warm at night.

Weird how people who don't partake in seasonal decorating like to look down on those that do. It's not about commercialism for me, I just love the seasons and adapt to them. Doesn't take much effort and alot can be done for free/cheap but I enjoy doing it 🤷

I would suggest the beginning of October, really.

It would look most appropriate then.

I get the feeling that this September isn't going to be particularly autumnal, rather the last of the summery days.

How nice that you enjoy this, Op. And that you make time to put out little pumpkins and candles.
You should decorate when the cold air starts invading the evenings.

A couple of times I have decorated for Autumn by default.
I left the Christmas tree in the corner and by Autumn it had orange needles, some falling on the floor.

I saw a window in my neighborhood that already had the Halloween decorations up. As for my autumnal decor I shall collect a huge sack of fallen leaves in a few weeks time and empty them out in the living room for that autumny vibe.