Aibu to think you don't put your tree up in November?

[MardyBra]

I've just seen my first Christmas tree post on Facebook. WTF! It's November.

It was hard to stop myself from putting a sarcastic pithy comment on their post. Trees should not be decorated until December, although it's OK in shops/restaurants once Hallowe'en is out of the way.

Anyway, it looks like a real one. I'll have the last laugh when all her needles fall off by the time I get mine up (the week before Christmas, like any sane person).

I have but as I share care and the way Christmas falls I only have dc for 7 more nights before Christmas! Never done it before but I feel justified this year!

Plus I got a bargain IKEA tree and it's lovely

""I love Christmas, but it's not Christmas, it's November""

As said, yesterday was Advent Sunday, which if your celebrating Christmas because of it being a Christian Celebration, then you should have started decorating your house, lighting a blue candle and engaging in contemplation etc would do.

If you want to stick to Christian tradition.

It used to start anytime from September to early November.

Also, those putting up the tree may be observing the "twelve days of Christmas" which in many Churches/Cultures didn't start until Christmas Day.

I celebrate it as a Winter Festival, I always put off putting up my Decorations and then regret waiting so long.

I sometimes leave them up later, which sort of ties in with the tradition (in Elizabethan England) of not taking the decorations down until Candlemas, which is February.

In other words, search hard enough and you can claim "its traditional", regardless of what you want to do.

I sometimes leave them up later, which sort of ties in with the tradition (in Elizabethan England) of not taking the decorations down until Candlemas, which is February.

I have to say, nothing dictates to me, when or where I can put up or take down ( in my case) our decorations.

I dont understand why anyone would follow some old formula if they want to do something else.

Having said that - this pleased me to read Birds and I feel I am in really good company on the times I have kept mine up till February.

I love the effect of the sort of Miss Havisham feast, as christmas stays in a state of just left...it helps me enjoy it more and lingers. I love the christmas table left dressed for days after the big meal, the crackers sill out, and so on.

Haven't RTFT because I'm lazy.

But

I completely agree it's seems like this year a lot more people have put the trees up before December has even begun I understand if there's an underlying reason but 99.9% of the time there isn't! I'm a crank though.

The sad thing is that people are then fed up with Christmas by the time it arrives and want everything down by Boxing Day!

I have never met anyone who ruined their Christmas by having their tree up too long. I have never been sick of my tree and always feel sad when it comes down in January. Don't care or mind what other people do.

What I do mind is being people judgey about something which is not remotely harmful to anyone or anything.

I wouldn't personally put them up that early, but I suppose it's each to their own. To me it would spoil it to put them up so early.

When I was little we always put them up on Christmas Eve and it was the most magical part of Christmas.

These days I tend to put them up about a week before Christmas as a compromise. Normally once we've finished work for the Christmas break.

We often end up leaving them up later than you are "meant" to though, because I hate the thought of taking them down!

DH put ours up yesterday because he wasn't working this weekend and therefore had time to get all the heavy boxes out of the shed. First Sunday in Advent was yesterday, so I tried very hard not to get to pant-hoikingly judgy about it even though it's still November

I absolutely love Christmas, but nowadays don't put our tree up until about a week/week and a half before Christmas.

When DP and I were first together (25+ yrs ago) I put our tree up in November. Our first Christmas in our very own flat. So exciting!!!

By 15th December, not many needles left. By Christmas Day, we had a very large twig with baubles.

Ours is going up tomorrow. I'd wait until the dcs break up from school but ds2 is so excited so I promised it would go up on the 1st. I don't give a shit when anyone else puts their tree up. Ds2 has had one in his room for 2 weeks and it's apparently staying there for ever and ever

YANBU. I like Christmas, but I also like a bit of a lull between Hallowe'en and Christmas. Starting it all in November just makes everything feel a bit forced, and then you're jaded by it all before the big day even arrives.

I wish everyone would calm down a bit and wait until December. It still means a 25 day lead in, which is surely plenty.

LOVE Christmas but tree and decorations don't go up until the weekend before in our house. Burn an advent tea light every night from tomorrow and the Nativity would be out from tomorrow if our house wasn't in such a mess. Decorating - should be finished for Christmas.

We put ours up first weekend in December and have been told that's too early.

Everyone has different opinions on Christmas decorations I wonder what a poll would say if it was asking when do people generally put their deccies up

Ours went up yesterday because DH works all next weekend and I'm not fit for dragging boxes up and down from storage. I must say, it's quite cheery in the corner in this dark, dismal weather. Tomorrow is December anyway.

i was going to put mine up tomorrow but one of my grandsons was being mean to his sister so to cheer her up we decorated the tree so i have broken my own tradition this year

our neighbour's tree went up on 1 november.

Mine goes up about the 12 ish and comes down on the 5th January. It's stint may be shorter this year because I have a mad 4 mo kitten!

My tree is as cat friendly as I can make it, no lights, nothing breakable...etc, but its still going to be fun keeping him off it!

All the people I know who put their trees up early are moaning on FB on Boxing Day that they are sick of them and are taking them down.
Not sure when ours will be up, hopefully for DS2's birthday.

The sort of people that put their tree up in November usually don't have a real tree and then post smug FB posts on Boxing Day about it all being packed away for another year when there's still 10 days of Christmas left to go!
Happy St Andrews Day.

Does it matter if people have a real tree or not?

We get a real tree so it doesn't go up until a couple of weeks before. I don't want a limp tree on Christmas Day. Trouble is, now people are moving the Christmas season further forward (back?) sometimes we've gone to pick a tree and there having been many left to choose from. So it's not just the faux tree people, there must be a lot of houses with brown twiggy trees looking sad by the time Christnas Day arrives.

Ffs, ignore the spellings. This fucking phone.

Does it matter if people have a real tree or not?

I didn't suggested it 'mattered', I couldn't give a monkeys what sort of tree people have but, you're unlikely to put a real tree up in November as it would be bald by Christmas.

Exactly, SauvignonB - as happened to us (my post about 15 or so back).

Bald Christmas tree, floor full of needles (even though we did keep sweeping).

You could only put a fake tree up in November (and be fed up with it in December).

Re the comments that it's no one's business - Christmas being moved back earlier and earlier is something that annoys a lot of people, and in some ways diminishes it.
Trees and decorations going up in November are part of that, so I think people are entitled to discuss it on a public forum and to have opinions about it.