To ask if it’s too early to get the Christmas deccys out

[HelpMePlease435]

My partner has been insistent that he wants to put the Christmas decorations up since the beginning of November. Am I being unreasonable to think that we should wait until the 1st of December at least?

You are going to get flamed for calling them deccys.

It is 2020. All rules are out

No get them out. It's the new law. Also join all the threads about Christmas food and films. < is this an elf or what!?

Neither reasonable or unreasonable. It's been a pretty crap year in lots of ways - given that having them up won't actually cause any harm or indeed have an negative impact on you, why not go with your partners suggestion? It will bring him happiness without any adverse effect on you. It'll also be another job out of the way.

YABU to say deccys

2020 normal rules dont apply, my mother and sister have had theirs up for a few weeks now. I would have mine up but my 3 year old is already pestering for her advent calendar, so not sure i could cope with extra weeks of nagging for xmas day

I thought you wrote decoys and wondered... fake reindeer, plastic elves?

@BullshitVivienne

You are going to get flamed for calling them deccys.

That was my first thought!

Of course it is, it’s November.

I’m all good with deccies though.

If there’s a year for putting them up early, this is it!

As for our household, we’ll start with putting up one of the trees, the outdoor lights, and a candelabra for the living room window on the first Sunday of Advent (29/11).

It makes me laugh when old people like Anne Widdecombe harp on about how in their day the decorations went up on xmas eve at the earliest, I was watching old episodes of Coronation Street from the 1960s the other day and as soon as end of November/1st December rolled around the decs were all straight up

Put them up when you want, this year I will put my tree up 5th December

I agree with you OP it's way too early!

Would people put up birthday decorations a month or two early just because they were excited for it? No...same rules apply for xmas in my opinion.

P.S I don't care much for xmas, can you tell 🤣

I’m a December 1st person, I get Christmas fatigue if it’s any earlier - can’t do Xmas songs, films, etc until after then!

However this year has been such a washout I don’t begrudge anyone who needs a bit of joy and wants their decorations up early to help with that! The problem is when you fall into two different camps in your own house

deccys?

Just do it. It makes things a bit brighter.

Just done ours 🎅😁

Mine went up yesterday.

I normally do them pretty early (end of Nov usually) but this is the earliest they’ve ever been done in our house.

I’m on furlough and DS2 is home isolating from school so I thought why not put them up so I can enjoy them before I go back to work after 2nd Dec.

December 1st is too early. That is all.

I always put mine up too early for mumsnet standards. Usually very early December but never before. I think exceptions can be made this year to have them up even earlier though!

If it makes him happy then where's the harm? I couldn't get worked up about it.

Yanbu

Is it December 24th yet? No? Then it's too early.

Too early.

@HelpMePlease435

In order to get a balanced view on this, I feel you need to post this question on the Christmas topic as well!

It’s too early - you’ll be sick of the sight of them by December

What ever you feel like , our outside ones are going up this weekend and maybe if everyone helps out inside then those might go up too