To think this is way too early - Christmas tree

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Just come back from a week away and noticed as I turned into my road a house with a Christmas tree and lights up already. It is not yet the last week of November.

a neighbor does it 1st of November every year,inside,window front garden and back garden

hes a old chap that lives all alone so i think it cheers him up

we are doing it Saturday

We are worse than scum by MN standards as our tree goes up 1st December and comes down about the 27th or 28th.

My Nanna has her tree up and she is in her 80's

I thought it was lovely tbh

Celebelly we are worse than you, I sometimes put the tree up on Christmas Eve and always take it down before New Year. One year I put the tree away in the loft without taking any decorations off it first.

It’s way too early for me but I can’t get fussed about when other people want to put their decs up, although if they’re the sort of person who thinks Christmas is done with on the 27th Dec they can bugger off !

My tree is up... in the fucking loft where it belongs until December.

Tice

You have no idea what might prompt someone to do this.

Mind your own business

I know someone who puts their tree up in October

My husband rolled his eyes when I suggested 1st Dec for our tree!

My children are already moaning at me as apparently everyone else has their tree up, I'm putting ours up in 2 weeks time.

Of course it's too early.

It will be quite dry by Christmas as well

We are pretty desperate to get ours up. I think the last weekend before December is fine. We take ours down on Boxing Day though. We also use a plastic tree. I suspect that breaks at least 4 Mumsnet rules.

Ours is going up this Sunday 🌲

We are doing a fake tree for the first time this year as crawling DD and pine needles all over the carpet are not an enticing combo. I will raise a glass to MN on the 27th when I'm taking down our fake tree

I like to put it up early AND take it down "late" -it's twelfth night ffs! Not late at all but the 12 th day of Christmas I'm going for Saturday. All the towns put their lights on last week so I figure I'm behind the times

In one of my old Enid Blytons the Famous Five put up their Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.

That’s what we did when I was a child and I’m not old enough to have been a child when Enid Blyton was writing. DH’s parents also put up their tree and decorations on Christmas Eve after he had gone to bed, it was part of the magic when he came down on Christmas morning.

If it brings them joy who cares? They put a Christmas tree up not drowned a puppy
Did you know that for every tree up before Dec 1st, an elf drowns a baby reindeer?

I don't mind people decorating early, but what I hate is when they're declaring all over social media (or forums like this) that they're taking it down on Christmas Day night or Boxing Day because Christmas is over. That sucks the fun out of it for those who like to celebrate Christmas at the traditional time (12 days).

DH’s parents also put up their tree and decorations on Christmas Eve after he had gone to bed, it was part of the magic when he came down on Christmas morning.

that sounds lovely, but I could never gather the energy to do that!
(by the time kids fall asleep, would be putting the tree up at 3am )

I knew I would get loads of”what’s it to you” responses though.

Then why did you post? You’ve made up your mind, you knew what the responses would be - what a waste of time.

We bought our tree today to put up at the weekend. Our village Christmas lights are turned on at the weekend so we like to do ours on the same weekend.

I've got mine up and no I'm not wishing my life away. I just like Christmas trees.

It would be way too early for me but it’s clearly not too early for them.

DS has an early December Birthday and I like him to properly celebrate his Birthday (Although he’s only a toddler) and then Christmas starts the following weekend. That’s our plans anyway.

I think it is becoming increasingly popular to put up early and take down early.

I might put mine up this weekend. I love alone, I've had a difficult few months, the next few weekends are kind of busy, it just might bring me a bit of joy.

I don't really care what anyone else thinks.