to not understand why people put their tree up in November

[Memoo]

Bah humbug to the lot of you!

Its not Christmas!!!!!!!!

Mine goes up last weekend in Nov as that's the weekend our village has the big Xmas tree lighting ceremony and outside carol concert. Its on the village green right outside my house so I like to have my tree lit up in the window to add to the festivities.

I have heard that thing about a scarcity of christmas trees every year for about the last five.

It just dilute the magic, putting it up early. Am really liking the idea of the first star on Christmas eve being the trigger

"Actually this year they might have a point. APparently the Scandinavian Christmas tree stocks have been severely depleted this year and only around one quarter of the normal supply of real trees are going to be available and prices for a normal tree are predicted to be shooting up to around £43.

People are being advised to buy early because stocks are expected to run out very early. Stocks of artificial ones are also expected to run very low as a result. "
Marketing Ploy!!!!
A bit like when someone told horse owners that hay is in short supply. It has shot up this year from £3 a bale to £8!!! purely because people are panicking!

yanbu

30th november- wrong! 1st december- fine :o

I like ours to go up a few days before but DS likes it earlier so we usually aim for a week before. I get sick of seeing it up for too long and it feels more christmassy if put up just before.

It does irritate me, only because it becomes harder and harder to buy a real tree at the correct/traditional time, because they stop selling them around the 20th it seems. I only think it's a bit unreasonable if you then take down the tree on the 27th.

Mine goes up on the 23rd (traditional in Denmark). Other Christmas decorations like wreaths, candles and twinkly lights go up before then

don't get it either.

But last year they said there was a shortage of real trees too and prices went up as a result. Yet there were loads at our local garden centre (and prices for the non-drop ones were around £50). They blamed the currency exchange rates making it more profitable to sell trees on the continent. I think they just say that there is a shortage every year, and rotate excuses.

YANBU.

I was accused of being a Scrooge yesterday for pointing out to a friend who was putting her tree up that it was only November.

Ours will probably go up on December 18th this year. That is plenty early enough. We keep it up until twelfth night, it would be bald by then if we put it up now!

As for the "shortages", that sounds like a marketing ploy. We buy a UK tree anyway.

DH wants out tree up now Luckily (or unluckily) for me he is too busy sleeping/being a prat/feeling 'funny' to actually do anything about putting it up

I think for me as well, decorating the tree together is as much a part of Christmas as sitting down and opening presents, so putting a tree up that far in advance just seems a bit odd.

Way too early, but putting it up for three days is equally ridiculous and really wasteful if you have a real tree.
I will be putting seasonal bits out when I get the advent calendars out of the cellar, and I like the tree to be up for my birthday on the 18th because it always has been for all my childhood birthdays.
We go to a pick your own tree farm locally and there are plenty there so I'm not too bothered about panic buying.

As far as I'm concerned I get Christmas decorations out, NOT Advent decorations - apart from the Advent calendar. Christmas starts on Christmas Eve and officially goes on till Candlemas 2 February (I do bend the beginning slightly!). Although I do take down the decorations on twelfth night, I often leave the crib out till the beginning of February as the Kings have only just 'got there' on 6 January!