to shout "NYER I told you so" at you all

[MaryChristmaZEverybody]

You crowd of fecking bah-humbuggers.

If you kept Christmas for December and put your decorations up at a reasonable time you would still be enjoying it now.

Instead of moaning and groaning.

Idiots.

No, I mean, I bought things from two shops online this year just after Christmas.

I hate the fact people have to go and work just after, It seems very unfair. But I try and keep my sale shopping to a minimum until things have calmed down.

I resisted as much as I could but someone at DS's school was very pushy in selling trees and so my tree went up on 10 Dec.... it looks miserable now will have to take it off soon

Maybe I'll keep it until NYE

As a family, we have always sat watching the news on Boxing Day with faces like this - - at the people queuing up for the sales.

This year, we actually met some of them. Friends of DH's who, "Don't like to drink Christmas Day, because we like to be in town by 8am."

Freaks.

My children are still in their pyjamas, eating Christmas biscuits for breakfast. That is how it shoukd be,

Mine will be up until the 6th January. I love them, always have, but have got a bit more slack about putting them up now (used to get them up on 1st December!)

YANBU, of course

people wouldn't have to go to non eessential work if people were not so keen to shop all the time, shops wouldn't pay staff to open if there takings were nill

I just knew you'd be a proper Christmas person, Thumby. Happy Christmas to you and yours.

Yanbu.

Neer so there.

In Norway decorations are put up on the 23rd, or thereabouts.

I know Ivy. But then again people feel pressure to go and shop as soon as the shops reopen, because otherwise they are afraid everyone else will get the cheap stuff first.

I think it goes both ways.

And everything Christmassy will stay until Twelfth Night, as they should...

You are probably NBU. I had a strange November, got very excited about Christmas back in October, spent too much, had big plans, even posted a list on here.

I had premature excitement Christmas ejaculation

I can't wait to get everything down, people back into work and school and get back into normal routine. The house will get a good scrub down too.

Mine will be comming down today, ds3 won't stop climbing it and taking the decorations off

My tree didn't go up until 21st but like roomy after 1st I like to look forward - lengthening days, lighter afternoons, faint signs of spring - tje furst snowdrops and crocuses are the best thing you see all year in the garden. I find the dark days before Christmas v depressing.

Tree was going yellow and I only bought the bloody tree on the 23rd. And DS kept smashing baubles

Yesterday, down it came.

Bah humbuuug!

We are going to ILs tomorrow for Christmas part 2..got to wrap presents tonight, am trapped in never ending Christmas hell

I want to keep the tree (sadly moulting now) up until July. I love the lights.

I didn't buy it until the 23rd and, apart from dd's present, did all my present shopping on Christmas eve afternoon. It's the best day to shop as most people are down the pub. Food shopping just before the shop shut on the Sunday afterrnoon. Blissfully easy.

I love christmas but I can't stand thinking about it before December, it fucks it up for everyone

YANBU. If people just relaxed in November and enjoyed a nice quiet peaceful lull, instead of hitting the shops the minute hallowe'en is over and putting up their decorations weeks and weeks before Christmas they could then enjoy Christmas instead of being fed up and exhausted by the time it arrives and dying to get the decs down.
But then, I suspect those people were out yesterday booking their summer holidays and will be shopping for bikinis and summer dresses next week. Then, when we're all just starting to get into Summer they will be sorting out their back to school stuff.
Some people just cannot enjoy the present moment but are always rushing ahead to the next big event.

I have the post-Christmas malaise, I get it every year - 10 days off work, I think 'I hate work' and decide I want to give it all up, simplify life and get a job in a cheese shop as I am 'wasting my life'. Then by the 3rd of January I am delighted to be back at work and AWAY from the fucking wall to wall cheese/pate/sausages/lindor/stollen food fest.

Here here Maryz, mine will be coming down on the 6th, they only went up on the weekend of the 22nd. I only finished my little homemade wreath on Christmas eve so not flipping taking the thing down after 2 days. I practically went blind handbeading it, it's staying up all year, so ner!

see i think the Julian calendar had some good points, for example the new year started on 25 march, meaning that after christmas you are not rushing to celebrate NYE and can have two seperate celebrations.

It would be better to have mushed the Julian and Gregorian calendars together rather than just swap one for the other, but the british waited to see how the rest of Europe got on with the new calendar first and then as always didn't think about how it would effect the british who are different from other europeans

Thankyou OtterReindeer!

Getorf, I agree re. Christmas Eve shopping - I did that a few years ago with a friend and it was great! Right up to the point where she decided she had to go into M&S and we found all the crazed food shoppers - people fighting over the sprouts, that kind of thing

I took my tree down yesterday. It went up on the 9th, which for us was perfect. But once all the gifts from under it have been opened, the crackers pulled and the candy canes eaten, and the extent of its moulting has been fully revealed, it just looks a bit sad. Taking it away gives us more space for cramming in folk for Hogmanay/NY celebrations.

I leave everything else up though, and in fact the lights and other decs went up before the tree. I can't do either putting up or taking down in a day and prefer to spread it out. Plus one of the sets of tree lights is permanently up anyway.

I don't usually put my tree up really early, but I'm often pretty late in taking it down again... My record is July....

I'm Scottish, so Christmas and New Year are both part of the festive season. Although my mum grew up not celebrating at Christmas at all, as her dad was generally still at sea (fisherman), and traditionally all presents and parties happened at New Year. We tended to spend Christmas Day with one set of grandparents, and New Years Day with the other set, alternated each year, and i still find it quite strange that down here in the deep south that New Years Day isn't a "big family lunch" occasion. Why rush around on Christmas Eve/Day/Boxing Day packing in all the relatives when you cna spread them out over two sessions?

Mine went up at the start of December and will be coming down on the 6th of January.

Just to clarify, I'm talking about my decs and not my knickers.

I did make the mistake of going into Asda just before it closed on christmas Eve to get some bin bags and cocktail cherries - it was bedlam.

I found out that my SIL did all her christmas shopping on Chrostmas eve as well. We suggested that in the future we just give each other a hundred quid and spend the afternoon drinking instead