To have put my tree up?

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I couldn't wait anymore ahhhhhhhh!

I don't even know when the 'official' time to put up tree and decorations is!

I'm itching to get mine up already but DH is a miserable sod doesn't like the idea. So it'll have to be December when ours go up.

OP YANBU if you enjoy having tree and ecoraions up then go for it!

decorations even- dunno what ecoraions are

Well that thread was utterly offencive!

So because i have put my tree up i am Common and an idiot!

No Wonder this country is so fucking miserable all the time with you rotten sods walking about

To all the nice posters Thanks xxxx

redflag - we always wait till the lastest time, but that's a religious thing (at least 2 sundays into advent).

However, i have a shop and I have to put up my decorations at the beginning of November in order to get people into the spirit of spending money.

You just need to work in retail - then you'll be allowed to put your tree up much earlier.

don't listen to them, though, they're just being bah- humbug about it.
(actually, 3 years in retail will knock the christmas spirit out of you!)

redflag, new to the concept of AIBU are we?

piscesmoon are you me? Couldn't agree with you more.

Sorry, but you did ask...YABU! Especially if you have put your tree in your front window so that my weans can see it and nip my head every time we drive past to put ours up!

I take it it's not a real tree? Otherwise will it not be dead as a dodo by Christmas Day?

Even as a DC I realised that half the fun of Christmas is the anticipation and it is all taken away if the parent can't wait and starts in November!

Growing up, my mum used to say every year (from as early as I can remember) "oh, you're getting too old for Christmas now, I'm going low key this year"; I'd go to bed on Christmas Eve and the house would look normal. I'd get up Christmas morning and the house was transformed - it was AMAZING; I would also get a present every day for the 12 days of Christmas, so not a mad pile on one day (though I did get a few on 25th itself).

I get really cross when people start taking decs etc down before 12th night - don't put them up so early and you won't be fed up with them!!!! And don't get me started on people who buy all their presents early and wrap them before December starts. I know one mum who buys them all in the Jan sales... that's just WRONG.

I take my Decs down on New Year's Day!! And have bought and wrapped all my pressies, and written all my cards, baked the cake and the pudding and ordered the turkey.

I have baked my cake and made mincemeat and bought some cards and 3 little stocking filler presents-it will all get done in time-it isn't December yet.

piscesmoon whats the marshmallow test?

I usually have the tree up from the first saturday in december until the 5th jan, but this year dd2 is 7mo and is crawling and pulling herself up so considering not even having a tree! :(

There is a big swingy chair where the tree was last year (DS is autistic and loves it)

We'll be lucky to find space for a few baubles and they'll have to be very high but they'll be lovely.

I have wonderful christmas tree memories (like DD decorating it as if the xmas fairy had thrown up on it...)

ENJOY YOUR TREE OP

The Stanford Marshmallow test is explained here and those who can wait for delayed gratification do better in life.
If their parent can't wait until at least the middle of December to put up a tree they don't have much hope!!! I would teach DC that good things are worth waiting for and the anticipation is half the fun-spoilt entirely if the parent doesn't understand it.

I misread that piscesmoon. I thought you said Stepford Marshmallow test. Which would have been another thing entirely .

you can't take your decorations down till Epiphany, amothersplace ! it's just wrong

In my family, tradition was that there were 3 golden bells on the tree, but only one made a noise.
My mum would hide it round the back every year, because it annoyed the hell out of her! and every year, we would find it, and sit in the chair knocking it so it would ring.

When I moved out of home, I made sure that the first tree decoration I bought was a bell that rang.
(but I have it at the front of the tree)

I'm good at waiting for things.
always have been.
did well at school, too.

my big sister can't wait for things (always had to find the pressies etc). she's very clever, but didn't do well at school. I put that down to the fact she didn't try, though...

YANBU!! Bah to the cynics - if you still hold some of that awe about Christmas that you had as a child (remember how magical tinsel, baubles and lights seemed?) then why not enjoy it for the month leading up to Christmas day?

YABU. I LOVE christmas, but not in November

My presents are 90% done and wrapped - I have a run of birthdays mid-November onwards so I tend to do the shopping in bulk and then split between Xmas/Birthdays. Can't cope with the stress of going into December not fully organised, and my income's so erratic these days that I have to buy things when I've got the spare cash in little drips here and there. Also about to move house so have the presents wrapped in a box labelled Xmas so they're all together and not going to get lost.

I'd be thinking about putting my tree up now if I could - I have really bad SAD, and after the year of utter utter shit, I'm struggling to cope more than usual this year - putting the tree up gives me a lift that gets me through a couple of the toughest weeks before the slow coast to Christmas begins. Can't put it up this year because of being in house move limbo and it's driving me nuts.

Mind you I'm giving serious thought to completely obliterating Christmas from existence this year, recording a lot of normal telly to avoid the specials and just hibernating till after New Year - not much to celebrate.

When I was little, my mother used to buy me a tub of ice cream each fortnight or so.
I used to wait until the last day before she went shopping again to... even start it. I just loved savouring the anticipation so much .

I have about a dozen more stories like that from my life.

But I have my tree up already. Because it's pretty.

So which marshmallow box do I fit into, eh? EH?