Christmas trees up in November???

[lottieandmia22]

Since when was this a thing? Suddenly an increasing number of people are putting up trees and decorations because it’s now early November? What?!! It is nowhere near Christmas. What is the point?

Good luck upper. See if Deborah Meaden will go with it?

I don't put mine up until about mid Dec and take it down as soon as possible after Christmas! That's plenty for me.
I always get a real tree and they start to look a bit droopy after 2 weeks. Any longer than that and I don't think it would still look nice on Christmas Day. Plus there's no where really to put it so it's just kind of in the living room and gets in the way.
Apart from those practical considerations, putting the tree up is, to me, the start of the actual proper Christmas celebrations and I am not ready to do that until about mid Dec. I don't mind the "all the effort for a week" thing. My house is usually quite tidy and neat (a place for everything) but I like to totally overdo it at Christmas with tree, paper chains, special candles, Christmas light shade etc etc but I can't bear the clutter for more than a couple of weeks!

I could not care less what other people do in their own homes though and if putting a tree up in November makes them and their families happy then more power to them. I can't stand all this sneering about how other people celebrate.

I put mine up the weekend before 1 December so that I can relax and enjoy them for the whole of December. I also make sure all my presents are bought and wrapped by then. December is my favourite month of the year and doing everything early means I can enjoy every single minute of it. Can't wait.

I love Christmas, I got engaged at Christmas, I got married on Christmas Eve, I spend my year looking forward to Christmas but my decorations never go up earlier than the second weekend in December - though I do spend a lot of time buying decorations cards presents etc from about August.

One year, an house on our street had the tree and full decorations up in early October. I thought it was ridiculous and passed comment to family, neighbours etc (relatively lightheartedly) One day, not long after they went up I mentioned it to another neighbour who knew the ‘early decorators’. She said ‘their 7 year old boy has cancer and he isn’t going to make it to December, he wanted one last christmas’. I nearly choked on the size 6 foot I had in my mouth and from that day I will never ever judge something so minuscule again.

The restaurant of the premier inn in Dagenham had theirs up in September.

I don't get it either. It's not called an Autumn Tree. It's called a Christmas Tree. Christmas does not fall in October or November. I don't even get people chucking them up for the whole of December but at least that is Advent which is connected with Christmas. A week before and a week after is about right in my mind. I think anything longer does make it seem less special, to me at any rate.

My DP family have a competition. Last year his aunts went up the day before Halloween. She didn't win this year - her daughter did, she put hers up yesterday prompting her son to ask if it is Christmas tomorrow because last year she moved house Christmas week and was gutted her tree didn't go up until Christmas Eve.
I don't like Christmas so hate putting the decs up, although keep being told off as now DS knows who Father Christmas is apparently I need to pretend to like it. BAH HUMBUG

Putting christmas decorations up in November is really common behaviour.

I can't summon up any kind of reaction to be honest.

The killing of trees for decoration, now that makes me sad.

DH and I have our birthdays a week apart in mid November, i like the tree up early and he doesn't so we compromise on no tree before his birthday but I'm welcome to decorate before mine. We have 3 trees so usually I put one up for my birthday then the other 2 go up as and when. I bloody love Christmas.

Mine will be up at the end of this month then I can start wrapping presents and putting them straight under.
I work in retail which is always manic at Christmas and I'll be 22 weeks pregnant this year so I am trying to be organised early, if people don't want to see my tree in November they can go elsewhere for a cuppa!

You will have to dust the presents TheNewMrs.

I put mine up in the first week of December then take it down on January 2nd. It always feels like long enough. I love christmas but November is too early IMO.

I put ours up 2 weeks before Christmas - I get a real tree (sustainable before anyone screams at me!) - I don't like them up to early as as a child we would do it the Friday before Christmas

I do find the people who stick them up as early as possible are always the ones that pack them up boxing day moaning about the mess!

I don't do it myself but it's been a thing for YEARS.

@Sparklingbrook they need a wipe over whether the tree is up the end of November or the middle of December regardless I find! The majority will be sealed up in gift bags this year for ease which will help

My dd likes the tree up for her birthday at the end of November.

A few Christmas bits have already sneaked out.

My nutcracker is out and a Christmas candle.

Putting christmas decorations up in November is really common behaviour

No judging other people for what they do put up in their own house that doesnt effect anyone else whatsoever is really common behaviour. As well as snobby.

Each to their own, but here nothing happens at least until the schools have broken up. Then everything is away on 1 Jan at the absolute latest.

I know an "Up on Christmas Eve, down on Boxing Day" person though, so I think we're quite generous.

It's not for me but I don't really have an opinion either way on when others do it. We put ours up 'early' (by my standards, will be 16/12 this year) mainly because the dc love it. I tend to take it down the day they go back to school or 12th Night, whichever comes first.

I know an "Up on Christmas Eve, down on Boxing Day" person though, so I think we're quite generous. That sounds like too much effort in a short space of time MiddlingMum

Surely by the time Christmas comes it's an anticlimax if you have your tree up in November . I put my tree up about 15th Dec and take it down on the 5th Jan.

I put mine up a week before and that's only for the kids. Will probably have a wreath on the door two weeks before.

The tree comes down on St.Stephen's Day!

I hate Christmas.

Surely by the time Christmas comes it's an anticlimax if you have your tree up in November confused

Nope not in the slightest. What is there about looking at all my lovely decorations and lights for weeks in the run up to CD and then enjoying CD with my family surrounded by them that could possible be an "anti-climax"?

I love Christmas, and winter, it's my favorite time of the year! Pre children our tree always went up on the 1st December, with Christmas music playing and mince pies. DD1's birthday is the first week of December and we like to keep things separate so it goes up the weekend after that.