To think it's ridiculous putting your Xmas tree up this early?

[weltonn]

I understand we've had a shit year this year, but I wouldn't dream of putting my Christmas tree up in October. I have a friend who has taken down the Halloween decorations and has now put the tree up. It hasn't even been Halloween yet?

What is getting me through this time at the moment is knowing that in just over a month it will actually be time to put the tree up and I'm really looking towards to getting new decorations and doing so.

AIBU here?

shame these people are just ruining it by spreading it so much.

Ruining it for who?? How can someone else putting their decorations up early in their own home possibly ruin your Christmas?

I think it's a bit crazy and o wouldn't do it.
But then I wouldn't want a friend who can't just accept my quirks and instead comes on line to ridicule me and denounce my stupidity

Weekend before Christmas as usual, it seems to take away from the whole celebration if up for weeks/months. It must also feel like forever for children who associate Christmas with Santa coming.

Wait? These people aren't decorating the outside of the house, are they? I think I might be muttering about it ruining things if I were opposite the Griswolds in October.

YABU squeeze out as much as possible this year. Ours is going up after DHs birthday in November

@weltonn

If I put my tree up now I'd be sick of the sight of it come December. I usually put mine up just after the 1st.

And if I put mine up just after 1 December I’d be sick of the sight of it long before Christmas. Mine goes up on the last Saturday before Christmas. We’re all different.

YABU this year has been hard for everyone if the tree helps bring her and her family a bit of joy then leave her to it. It doesn’t affect you.

Why does it affect you in any way shape or form, mind your own business and get on with your own paulty life

I do personally and privately think it’s ridiculous. However, my friend started decorating for Christmas last week as she’s on oxygen, has been shielding for most of the year only leaving the house to go to hospital and is suffering from depression and, as Christmas is her “thing” she says it’s helping. She usually puts her tree up on the first of Nov. I can’t judge her for what she’s doing to try and help her mental health. The movie channels have been playing Christmas movies for weeks already and she’s watching them 24/7 as a break from the news. Let’s face it, with her lung condition, how many Christmasses does she have left? With Covid and her living in one of the worst affected regions, this could be her last. I truly hope not though.

Overall, as a cultural thing, I have to admit that it upsets me a little that Christmas is getting pushed so early and drawn out. I’m very traditional and Christmas is about the birth of Christ for me...so the tree goes up second week of Advent but Advent is a time of waiting and preparing for Christmas, which for me and my family begins on Christmas Eve and ends with our Epiphany meal and Epiphany Door Blessing Ceremony on Twelfth Night/6th Jan. For most people now commercial Christmas starts at Halloween long before Advent and ends on Boxing Day. So I’m very out of step now things have changed in the past 5/10 years.

But anyway, each to their own. If it makes people happy in these tough days then so be it. It’s not harming anyone, just a tiny bit irritating (but that probably says more about my own daft intolerance than their enthusiasm).

We don't put Xmas decs up - haven't since DS left home. So if you like the idea of cosmic harmony (and let's be frank, who doesn't ?) then anyone putting Xmas decs/trees up now is merely balancing our humbuggery

Seems weird to take halloween stuff down before halloween. This has been a hard year so if it makes her happy let her get on with it. I cope by eating chocolate and cake, putting up Christmas decorations is probably alot healthier.

Throughout my childhood we put the tree up on Christmas eve. Was always magical.

Now we have GC we do it on the 23rd!

This might sound like a really depressing way to look at it, but I don't want to see ANYTHING to do with Christmas, because Christmas is a time for family, and it'll just serve to remind me how difficult it's been this year without being able to see family properly, without being able to hug my parents or grandparents, and I dread to think what Christmas will actually bring this year.

In a way I want everything to be back to normal, but in another way I will be really angry if they allow us normality 'because it's Christmas' - because you can guarantee restrictions within a few weeks if everyone round the country is travelling and mixing, and also, if this virus is serious enough for everything that's been put in place to prevent it, surely that usurps our need for 'Christmas normality', right? If they allow normality, it makes me think that perhaps what is being done right now is and was a complete overreaction.

humbuggery

the sweet never seemed less appealing.

YANBU. I love Christmas, which is precisely why I hate the idea of it going on for months.

As always I'm baffled by people thinking you are only allowed to have an opinion about something that directly affects you. A huge proportion of people's opinions are about things that don't harm them in the slightest. If you removed all the MN threads based on people's opinions about harmless things that don't directly affect them, half the site would disappear.

I don't understand people who put Christmas decs up before Remembrance Sunday. It's none of my business but I think it looks tacky.

I personally put mine up after the 1st December.

I think people have lost the art of delayed gratification. Everything has to be "now, now, now". Actually, things are better if you wait and and anticipate them rather than just doing it as soon as you want, getting bored and then moving straight onto the next thing.

And I say this as someone who never even bothers with a Christmas tree!

I think people have lost the art of delayed gratification.

Oh, I don't know. We've waited forever for this government to be competent.

Maybe it doesn't bother me because I don't like Christmas that much. Well I like the carols, and I love a good nativity, a nice meal on Christmas Day are all fine, stressing about it all and people getting into debt isn't so great. At the end of the day if people want to make Christmas one day or two months I just think if it makes them happy then go for it.

Everyone has their own traditions so there is no right or wrong. For us the tree goes up the weekend before Christmas and comes down the morning of NYE’s. That’s perfect for us but I’m sure others do it differently.

Oh, I don't know. We've waited forever for this government to be competent.

And we've got to wait even longer to get rid of them. Roll on 2024.

Well, if you are putting yours up the start of December that's too early for me.
I don't judge xmas decs because I know that some put them up early if their spouse is in the forces and leave before xmas as away for xmas.

Another family I know same situation but kids lost their dad at xmas.
Now they have it earlier, sometime in November and don't celebrate xmas the same. The children were all very young, heart breaking.

So please don't judge you never know somebody else's situation.

I normally don't put my tree up until the 1st December, but this year I have to put it up earlier as we are having 'mini Christmas' visits from people who live far away & the first one is mid Nov.

That said, we don't get tired of the Christmas decorations & if putting up a few baubles made one person happier right now after the stupid year we've had, I'd do it today.

I’m definitely thinking about Christmas earlier than usual this year and agree it’s something to look forward to - starting it this early would be a bit of an anti-climax but to others if it makes them happy that’s ok too! However, I do think if you’re going to do the whole halloween thing it’s a bit odd to take down the decorations before halloween - what’s that about!?

Who are we to judge? If it makes someone happy well, good for them.