To think I am not The Grinch

[teawithalice]

I had someone call yesterday and I was criticised (fairly jovially) for not having any Christmas decorations up.

As an adult living alone, surely it's fairly normal not to bother? Plus, not everyone celebrates Christmas anyway.

Or AIBU?

we haven't put any up yet it's too early but of course you can do what you want ,!

We're only one week into december!

House full of kids here, no decorations up yet because it is only the 7th. I'd be sick to my back teeth of the decorations and from trying to stop the 10mo scale the tree by Boxing day if I had them up now.

Not having them up yet is one thing, not having them up at all is pretty Grinchy (if you acknowledge Christmas). A nice tree up makes the house feel so cosy!

It makes such a mess, though, costs money and I have very limited space (one bedroomed flat) - plus I'm rarely in and people never only occasionally visit.

I'm not doing it till next weekend. It seems to have become a thing that people do it early and then take them down on Boxing Day.

A nice tree up makes the house feel so cosy!

What if you're going for "sophisticated" or "minimalist" or "shabby chic" rather than "cosy"?

We don't put ours up till 12 days before Christmas and we have 5DC.It's tradition for us.It's what my Parents did and what my DH parents did.

If you celebrate Christmas then I think you should bother for yourself.Who cares if no one else sees them if you like them have them your worth it.

My mum doesn't bother. She can't be arsed doing it and she's never at home for Christmas anyway.

Well, I don't celebrate Christmas - I like it, but I don't do anything special. But I don't "not" celebrate it either (I mean I don't have cultural or religious reasons for not celebrating it.) It really would be a daft thing to do, to buy a tree. I like the lights in the town centre and elsewhere, they are gorgeous. It's just not quite fitting for my home.

If I had children I would have a tree :)

Nah a tree always makes it look cosy unless this is your tree

I don't decorate either. I spend Xmas day with family and will admire their tree and be glad I don't have to faff with my own.
Living in small flats storage is limited.

Yes, that's one of the problems I have jay - and it's such a faff trailing rubbish outside.

Yanbu. I never bothered before DC either, what's the point? Never at home, always at family over the actual Christmas week. Seems really stupid and pointless.