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.

The adverts and presents and cards appear from September. Really we are bombarded by Xmas 9 months out of 12.

I can't work out the maths here. Even if we were bombarded in September (which I don't think is true), that would only be four months. What are the other five? I don't recall being bombarded by Christmas in March

Every year people say the same thing, but every year the timings are the same really. Halloween is always a natural starting point for Christmas stuff to begin and has been for as long as I can recall.

Halloween is always a natural starting point for Christmas stuff to begin and has been for as long as I can recall.

I would have said after Armistice Day would have been a more natural time to start vaguely thinking about Christmas.

We do Thanksgiving and then Christmas stuff goes up on the Saturday. So this year it will be next Saturday when they go up.

It's Christmas in my house all year in terms of fairy lights though and star decor. I've had a shit past, autumn and winter have painful anniversaries and triggers, so I have sparkle and shine in my home cos it makes me feels good and happy even if things are tough.
Give zero fucks about what people think.

Too early for who?

Their home, their electricity bills, how others choose to celebrate Christmas has nothing to do with anyone else.

Getting our Christmas stuff out from tomorrow night and decorating Sunday, it’s my only free full day to do it until Christmas 😭😰 ideally I like the last weekend in November but never mind!
Plus husband going back to his hone country this year and I’m spending it here, so he gets a few weeks of seeing our hone twinkly and festive-nothing better than watching a film on tv, snuggled on the sofa with just the Christmas decorations lit up-I love it!

You're lucky, the flat across the road from me has had their trees gaudy lights shining at me every evening for a month already

I do find it weird - especially the people who put their trees up in November and take them down on Boxing Day. I know people say ‘what’s it to you’ and they’re right, it is absolutely nothing to me and I couldn’t care less, but I do assume that people who do it haven’t learnt to delay gratification.

As a child ours went up Christmas Eve and down on 12th night. (Tree was small scrawny thing from memory). I put mine up now early December (we have various house gatherings and I want it look festive for those).
However - the real reason is it takes me ages to decorate my large trees - I don't want to feel hassled too near Christmas.
Don't do outside house decs apart from a tree, so it doesn't affect anybody else.

However - I do t decorate for any other celebration like Halloween etc, so it's a once a year thing.

@Monkeynuts18 why delay gratification just for the sake of it though? Sure if you’re presented with cake before you’ve had your dinner, exercising self control is a good thing, but what’s the point in delaying enjoying your Xmas lights til an arbitrary deadline? They do no harm

Too early for who?

Their home, their electricity bills, how others choose to celebrate Christmas has nothing to do with anyone else.

We are still allowed to comment and judge.
First it pushes shops to start the Christmas tat circus earlier and earlier.

If I start putting Halloween decoration in August, I would be judged too.

Dammit! I'm putting Easter Decorations up in January next Year. That'll make the neighbours feel like the miserable party-poopers that they obviously are...

...and I'm refusing to go to my kid's primary nativity this year unless they do it proper and include the Slaughter of the Innocents and the whole Flight to Egypt bit. "Look, kids, a bit of the 'Christmas Story' that is actually relevant!" (OMG! Jesus Mary and Joseph were refugees!) Instead of the GIMME PRESENTS!fest that is has been Disneyfied into.

Please dont judge people you don't know. A very young family member of mine is extremely unwell with cancer and is going to be in hospital for at least 3 months from Sunday. They've fully decorated their home already so he can try to enjoy as much of Christmas as he can at home.
Neighbours or passers by may think it odd, but for them it's the only chance of Christmas joy at home they'll have this year and possibly ever again.

My fairy lights on the outside tree are going to be up all year. They are pretty and make me happy. I don't care if other people disapprove.
My tree went up last weekend. Again, it is pretty and makes me happy - nothing to do with being unable to delay gratification (although why this is seen as a good thing, I don't know) or wishing my life away. I enjoy Christmas and my decorations.

The day I let other people’s Christmas decs bother me is the day I pay myself on the back for having such a quiet life .
Who really gives a shit?

*pat

I don't think I'd notice if I'm honest. If I did, then I might feel a bit sad for them (because I'd assume that they had a sad reason for celebrating Christmas so early), but I can't pretend that I'd think about it for longer than it took me to walk past the house.

We are still allowed to comment and judge.
First it pushes shops to start the Christmas tat circus earlier and earlier.

What a load of nonsense. Why would you care when the shops start selling ‘tat’?

Mine will go up next weekend. I don’t mind seeing Christmas now. It’s fun.

I think your opinion is a valid point OP. For me personally it's a bit too early (ours go up on the first of Dec or few days after). I must admit though, I do love seeing people's lights early or not, it cheers me up!

Also we have Fairy lights up in the lounge that we never took down after Xmas we loved them so much.

We have ours up...why the hell not? I love it and it makes me smile.