To want to ban any threads with 'Christmas' in the title until least the 1st Nov (apart from mine obviously!)

[shadypines]

OK I've seen two Christmas threads today on MN and that's two too many! It's fecking August!!

Christmas is on 25th Dec, nobody should put lights up until 1st Dec or later and there should be nothing in the shops until November. As for Christmas music in shops I would allow this on Christmas Eve only.

Nobody should have a works Christmas 'do' in early November either (yes colleagues I am talking to YOU.

I always think the people who have a problem with Christmas threads about shopping etc must have plenty of money

or no money and hate being reminded that this huge expense is coming around again whilst your still trying to recover from the last one.

Or maybe MrsBungle they have crappy family situations which mean they want to bury their heads in the sand and not think about Christmas before they have to. I save a little bit throughout the year anyway so it's nothing to do with money.

Aside from my gloom about Christmas as a whole I hate the way every occasion has such a massive fuss surrounding it these days - I only came back from my summer holiday at the weekend yet I went into a shop last night and saw a Hallowe'en display . What the hell is wrong with enjoying the different seasons and occasions for their own sake at the appropriate time?

And yes I hate Christmas threads before December or in any other topic but I guess that goes without saying.

Christmas mn names appearing/threads...its AUGUST!

mn is not the shops which already nhave xmas stuff.

At least let august go!

Please no, it's much too early to even think about the 25th December.....I can't bring myself to type the C word

If I don't think about it now, I can't make the last posting date for the UK. Some of us bloody have to do Christmas in September. If I didn't live overseas I wouldn't touch it until December.

I agree. Couldn't believe all this Christmas bargain stuff started in July. Or else set aside a special section which nobody else needs to see before 26th December.

YABU - just booked panto with Warwick Davies - so excited!!!!

Some of that Christmas bargain stuff gets shipped from China, so worth getting in early enough.

I started a thread about Christmas Eve traditions, and then had some one start a thread in chat grumbling about it. I wouldn't mind, but I'd posted it in the Christmas topic so it would only be seen by people who were interested in that kind of thing

My ambition is to post a Christmas thread that gets on 'Active threads' and then Mintyy comes and tells me off. It's not a Christmas thread until Mintyy has objected to it!

YABU if the threads were in the Christmas topic. Some of us love talking about Christmas all year round.

Well I don't have a lot of money either and a crappy family situation made worse by Christmas. Personally, the Christmas bargain threads, for example, help with my budgeting and buying. I do agree they should be kept in the Christmas topic. I like talking about Christmas and will continue to do so.

Get away! I love Christmas and only found the forum here a week or so ago. I can't start Christmas in December as I need to spread out the cost and buying over a few months.

However, this artificial tree nonsense up in Nov or on 1st Dec isn't my bag at all. Real tree, not more than a week before Christmas is the tilliebob household law

YADNBU

And I keep overhearing people in shops buying christmas pressies

Dont get me wrong, I love Christmas. I don't love the maaaasive shopping fest tho.

So please post in the christmas topic if you can't wait til November!

My bloody slimming world consultant put a pic up on the fb support page saying this or something like it.

If you lose 2 ppounds a week you could lose 1 stone + in time for xmas

If you lose 4 pounds a week you could lose 5 stone in time for xmas.

a. it is unhealthy and pressurising to expect ppl to lose weight that quickly (she obvs wants to give her members the gift of gallstones in time for xmas).

b. Why is xmas the time limit. Is the world going to end on New Years Eve. Is there something i havent been told?

I was in tesco today and they have Quality Street Roses Celebrations tubs out (i say tubs cos they are plastic now) and Christ have they SHRUNK. We have an old Roses tin from the 90s in a cupboard and it is huge and DEEP.

I'd love to know where people think shops should store Christmas (aka seasonal) stock until 1st November?

helen one of the managers of my local Superdrug told me that she was sent Easter eggs one Christmas Eve.

She sent them straight back on the delivery truck the same day

I have just been accused of being Bahmbug on another thread.

I really wish people would think just a little bit outside of their own Mulled Wine and Character Jumper lives.

This is part of my reply:

There is a Christmas Topic, so people who feel that way [excited] can share those thoughts and I think that's great, it's nice for those who can get excited about it, to have a place to discuss it.

However, The Christmas Topic there for another reason as well. It is to protect the people for whom Christmas is an incredibly emotional trigger.

For a lot of people on MN it is a very, very difficult time. Whether that's because they have lost a child, haven't been able to conceive a child to spend christmas with, have lost a partner or parent or for any other reason.

It was decided a few years ago that a Christmas Topic would enable quite a number of people to enjoy the topic year around and give other people a space where it's not rammed down there throats as it can be in the shops from September.

People who have posted here for a long time know and (mostly) respect that. Of course new people don't know that, which is why people either report the threads to have them moved or ask the Op's to do so. If MN see them, they move them, without being asked (well, at least the staff that have been here a while do or did).

If the posts are in the Christmas Topic, people can choose to hide the topic, if there are on the main boards they are still forced to keep seeing Christmas all the time, even if they don't open the thread.

I definitely thought this would be posted by Maryz.

Yanbu. Today on Facebook someone is posting they've booked to see Father Christmas already. Arggggghhhh!

I understand that Christmas could be a trigger for a small amount of people but so could birth, weddings, birthdays or holidays which are popular topics for discussion on mumsnet.

The people posting about Christmas obviously have that on their minds, I agree that aibu to only spend 200 pounds on my puppy for Christmas type threads are unnecessary always in august but threads dealing with complicated family situations are no different to posting aboutother future events. If Christmas posts should only start on December the 1st then all posts should be about events which will happen in the next month

Pressed post too soon! When I was 12 weeks pregnant I posted an aibu along the lines of aibu to give birth alone, no one waded in saying it's more than 6 months away stop thinking about it, your post could be upsetting other members, it was on my mind so I posted much as I would if Christmas was on my mind.

Christmas can bring family, financial and emotional problems to a head, it's only natural that people will be thinking about itiin advance.

' If Christmas posts should only start on December the 1st '

No-one is saying that though.

They are talking about using the Christmas topic properly so that posts about Christmas are there.

If it is but one factor in eg complicated family relationships (rather than the focus of the thread) then yes of course it might get mentioned within that thread. But they wouldn't have a tinselly title, as the thread is about the relationship and the Christmas complications could equally have been some other event/gathering.

And The Holidays
Some of us celebrate more than one.

I mean do other religions start 6 months in advance planning the main feast day and talking about it. I'm usually in trouble because of my attitude but I don't want to think about Christmas in August.