Christmas Trees in November

[MrsDylanBlue]

What is this fresh hell?

People putting their trees up in November WTAF? Its another week until bloody December?!

I hate the bloody commercialism the bloody colour themes people moaning about putting one up and having another two to go (in their own home so entirely optional).

Why does this have to be another “thing”.

Bah humbug I say.

@Dairyqueen2 adding "like it or not" to an opinion doesn't make it fact.

Also, we're all the same here. Fuck arbitrary classes and anyone who thinks people should live by them are ridiculous.

And I don't even have a Christmas tree. What class am I supposed to be?

I love Christmas but I couldn’t abide the decorations being up before December. I get sick of seeing the bloody things by Boxing Day , there’s no way I could cope with five weeks of them. I also always have a real tree, it wouldn’t survive that long.

What I can't hack is how my parents do it.

Their tree never goes up until Christmas Eve - fine, was pretty exciting to do that as a kid. It would stay up until we had a twelfth night party when we'd take it all down.

Now it's annoying though - if we go home to visit from our lovely decorated house, theirs feels bland until the decorations go up. Worse, they keep them up until the end of January.

It's arse about face. When everyone else is celebrating or just enjoying their decorations, their house is dull by comparison. When everyone else has put theirs away they're lit up like, well, a Christmas tree.

My grandmother is dying and this will be her last Christmas. She loves Christmas and so we’ve put it up early so she can see as much of it as possible. Hope that’s ok with you @MrsDylanBlue

@puzzledlady
Such a lovely idea.

I put mine up at the weekend. I'm a single Mum going through a rubbish time at the moment and my thought my DS and I needed cheering up.

It's also up in the hope that it might make me realise I need to do some shopping sharpish!

There's personal preference, there's situational circumstances, there's time available to decorate it, there's family visiting. So many reasons people decorate at different times in the lead up to Christmas Day. I am glad we are not all the same and it is not dictated when we are allowed to put up decorations.

I love Christmas and I get into the Christmas spirit 1st November straight after Halloween. However, I do hold off on putting the tree up until December 1st. November is for buying the presents and pinteresting Christmas diy ideas that never happens.

Some people just can't wait for anything anymore. Obviously people are free to put their decorations up anytime they like. And other people are free to quietly think they're daft.

'November without hearing Christmas muzak in the shops? Why is every TV advert from Nov 01 to Dec 24 about Christmas? It's because of unimaginative fuckers like you.'

Does calling music 'muzak' make you an imaginative fucker then?

Mines up

Who does it hurt? Does it really offend people if someone puts a Christmas tree up in their own home before December?

Its a personal thing, I put mine up all different times every year, just depends how busy I am in the run up to Christmas.

Ours is up and has been for the last week. First year that we've put it up early but we've had a bloody awful year and we wanted to bring Christmas forward a bit to cheer us all up and have something nice to look forward to. It's been a very relaxed process, I let the children decorate the tree over 3 days and I'm slowly christmasifying the house without the usual frenetic stress. We're also going away for Christmas so this is going to give us more time to enjoy it. The tree that's up at the moment is artificial but we will get a real tree too- probably much closer to Christmas though. Yes! Christmas is here and we love it! and if that makes us tacky then so be it but we're tacky and happy.

Trees up before December, I'm afraid, is a class indicator, like it or not

Making a statement like this says everything about the kind of person you are - unpleasant and uneducated. Please can we drop this ridiculous obsession with class.

I am an inveterate snob so find it terribly vulgar.

I remember a poster a couple of years ago saying her grandmother used to wonder if people who put their decorations up in November thought they were living in a shop

We put ours up this week, earliest we've ever done it.

Couple of reasons -

1. Very excited 3 year old, hasn't stopped talking about it since my own birthday this month (she kept asking when christmas was, and we just said "After Mummy's birthday").

1. We've just fully redecorated the room, and it made sense to just get it all done now. Painting, wallpaper, flooring, shuffle furniture, get the tree and decs up, job done. It's in the dining/playroom, so still have the living room to decorate later.

I was a fully paid up member of the real tree week before Xmas, take it down after 12 night and anything else was naff.
Then I started living in other countries and realized my narrow view of what was right was just an indicator that I hadn't got out of my bubble enough.
This year I am starting decorating this week as it is normal in the US and I am pushing through my internal discomfort because snobbery is ridiculous.

I don't mind when anybody puts theirs up. November does seem too early, but OTOH I love seeing them in people's windows when it's cold and dark and miserable.

Ours will go up on 6th Dec, over a week earlier than usual, because we have family coming on the 7th and I want the house looking festive. It will come down after Twelfth Night. Dh saws a bit off the bottom and we keep it in a bucket of wet gravel, so it will last..
I always hate taking our tree down - it seems so sad. God knows January is dreary enough anyway.

Bit early for me. But Saturday and mine will most certainly be up!

But it doesn't bother me what other people do. Lots of people in our street have them up

It does get a little annoying to see Christmas decorations everywhere super early (I once went through a fully decorated airport on 1st November which I thought was just unreasonable). Having said that, where I live there are only a few places that I know of that do Christmas trees and if I want a nice big one, I have to get it as soon as they start selling them! So I've got mine up already.

November is too early! I used to put them up a week before Christmas, but since having kids I do most of the decorations and lights in the first week of December, except the tree which goes up in the second week - otherwise the needles will be gone by Christmas!

I’ve been pondering on this today, and have concluded that my early (fake) tree is way less offensive to the eye than the 4567 sad, rejected looking real trees that litter the pavement waiting for the garden waste truck to pick them up in January.

I don't think anyone said they're offensive to the eye. Just that some people find the constant pushing forward of the Christmas celebration a bit wearing. It's not just decorations - already it's taking longer to get in and out of work because of queues of cars at every shopping centre, and it's been like this since the beginning of November.
I know people who worry about the escalating cost of Christmas and people who find Christmas a lonely and difficult time and really hate being reminded about it earlier and earlier every year.

It's all very well to say 'who does it affect when I put up my tree' but it's part of an overall move towards making Christmas an ever lengthening, expensive and stressful time.