To not put Christmas tree up yet?

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My DP really wants to put the tree up early this year. His reasoning is that we have just moved into our own place and it would be nice to have as long as possible for our DS who is one. He wants to do it tomorrow if he gets enough people to agree with him.

The reason I dont want to is we havent finished unpacking and it's all down to me. He isnt helping as he brought all the stuff to the new flat, without my help. We think this is a fair trade.

I cant however finish unpacking yet as there is storage issues. Tools still left behind by people who helped get the flat ready to live in and some drawers not yet been brought over.

So AIBU in not wanting to put it up until the flat is completely finished?

Way way too early.

Mine is going up the weekend of the 14th/15th this year because Dh is on call the weekend after (which is when we would have done it) & will be manic so unable to help (by help I mean keep the dc out of my way). It doesn’t come down till 12th night though.

Still haven’t decided if we’re putting a tree up this year at all. Didn’t last year. It was great because I thing to put away afterwards.

OP, it’s too early now.

I do because once Christmas is gone, so 26th here really, I can't see the point of a Christmas tree anymore.

It's the 12 days of Christmas though so, in my view, not gone until 6th Jan!

Not for at least another month! We're only a third of the way through November.

It's Fucking November. Even the shops only put theirs up last week.

@ThatMuppetShow

In case you missed it, the OP ASKED, posters are entitled to reply.... and think that November is way too early for a Christmas tree.

The OP did ask and people are entitled to their opinions. However, on these kind of threads, there are always a few people who post with a smug superiority, because they don't put the Christmas decorations and tree up til Christmas Eve, and they've taken it all down by Boxing Day evening.

I mean what's the point in even bothering?

Then there are the posters who chant 'we don't bother at ALL, as we are not sheep, so we don't get dragged into 'all the commercialism!' 🙄

Upshot is, put your decorations and tree up when you like, and take them down when you like... But the air of superiority that comes (from a few posters) who only have them up for 48 to 72 hours, is quite nauseating. Like they think they're better somehow because they don't have them up for a month. (Or not at all in a few cases!!!)

I also find the 'Christmas is over on Boxing day' mantra very odd too (as well as tedious.) It's really NOT over on Boxing day. As I said earlier, Christmas is a season, not just a day.

I used to do my decorating the first weekend of December as DHs birthday is the 25th November so made sure that was done and dusted. Now DSs birthday is the 1st of December, which is a Sunday this year so it won't get done until the weekend after, and after reading this thread I'm now dreading trying to stop a one year old trashing/climbing it. We leave ours up until after NYE mainly because I like the lights when it's bleak outside.

YABVU to consider early November.

Yanbu

@fahhhhlaaaalaaah Yes it will be pulled up, quite simply for being ridiculous. When I was a child I went to quite an expensive private school, almost everyone I knew there put their decorations up at the start of December. I don't think income has anything to do with it, just personal preference.

Putting Christmas trees up very early seems to be a fairly recent thing. Traditionally they went up a few days before Christmas and stayed up until 6th January (12th night). If the tree goes up before 1st December won't you be sick of seeing it by Christmas?

Agree with @HappyDinosaur

Where I come from (a middle class/upper class area in Cheshire,) many of the people with lots of money/high incomes/million pound plus houses, (and those who retired at 45 to 50, and those who don't HAVE to work coz they're so wealthy,) have their Christmas decorations and Christmas tree, and fairy lights all over the garden (and house sometimes,) between 30th November and 5th December. And they stay til 6th January.

The upper class families in the area (living in Halls, Mansions, and farms with multiple dozens of acres,) also put their decorations and Christmas tree and fairy lights up as soon as December hits. A few of them have it all up and the lights switched on around 25th November. And they are on til 6th January.

The less well-off people don't usually bother til around 20th December, because they are too busy working.

I think @fahhhhlaaaalaaah must live in a less middle class/upper class area, and doesn't generally get to see or mix with proper rich, or upper class people. Just those who think they're something, when they're not.

People with their trees up already make me a bit

I’m on a FB group where people starting putting there’s up early October.

What is the point?! Surely by the time Christmas actually comes around your a bit over it?!

I don’t put mine up until I have the money to do my shopping. Otherwise it makes me feel a bit depressed. December 1st at the earliest.

Ours won't be going up for another month.

It's November. It's not even advent. It won't be for weeks.
You have a 1 year old... good luck anyway.
You're unpacking from a house move.
All sensible reasons why it is not time for a Christmas tree for a few weeks yet.

I do mine when I get a free afternoon in December which varies each year. It stays up until the end of Christmas i.e. Jan 6th (or thereabouts depending on the way the dates fall).

I'll admit to not understanding the premature Christmas people who rush everything up late Nov/ very early Dec then want to sweep the lot away by Boxing Day because the novelty is long gone. People who CBA and put it up late and away early make more sense to me as it's more consistent.

However, on these kind of threads, there are always a few people who post with a smug superiority, because they don't put the Christmas decorations and tree up til Christmas Eve, and they've taken it all down by Boxing Day evening.

Yeah I’ve noticed this, it’s such a bizarre brag.

“Mine goes up at 23:59 on 24/12 and comes back down at 00:01 26/12. Not a minute longer.”

Just don’t bother if you hate it that much

People can be proper bitchy on here
I think the main reason my DP wanted to do it early because hes excited that we are in our own place for Christmas, which is quite sweet.

Mine is up already!! 😂
Had a shitty year, mum passed away a few months ago and I've lost some close friends this year too through suicide and cancer. Wanted to put the tree up to cheer myself and my children up, figured life's too short so jusy did it. No regrets!

Nope. Ideally up on Christmas Eve, but definitely not before December!

... but yes, it’s sweet that he’s excited. And whilst I roll my eyes slightly at Christmas decorations up in November, each to their own

December 11th here...