November 1st Christmas lights?

[Howareyouflower]

I had to go and get petrol tonight, and saw two houses already decorated for Christmas. Obviously it's up to them, but I can't help thinking I'd be sick of them by Christmas if I put mine up now. Have you put yours up yet? Am I being unreasonable to think it's a tad early?

We will have to do ours 14th November as my husband goes away the next day for 3 months and no way I'm climbing on ladders etc doing Xmas lights.

Tooooo early. 1st December is OK.

Are they actually turned on? If you have them professionally installed, you get a pretty big discount for agreeing to have them put up early.

Ugh yeah I agree. The Christmas build up starts earlier every year, it just doesn’t feel as special any more when it’s been rammed down your throat for a quarter of the year.
Ironically lots of people who have their decs up before remembrance seem to be the same ones who go on about how they can’t wait to take them down on Boxing Day and get everything cleared away

Ours go up in December and stay until

Oops posted too soon - stay until the 5th

CONSIDERING the final weekend in November this year, just because of the way contact is set up with my children’s dad.

But it feels very early to me!

I’ve seen two with the outside lights up. I like it, going to persuade `DH to put ours up earlier.

We have warm white fairy lights both sides of our house (country, rural, very detached) they are for our pleasure. Put them up last Yr in Nov and left them on till march. I don't take them down, just switch off the timer in the summer.

Theyve gone back on today for clock change. Mde us all v happy

Personally I think it’s too early.

However, I think sometimes around this time of year we start to notice them when they could have been up all year. My colleague had some tinsel up around his, due to a bereavement he wasn’t in during the new year to take his tinsel down so I took it down. I balled it up and put it on the edge of his desk as I didn’t want to go through his drawers to put it ‘away’. There it remained balled on his desk for the rest of the year. Nobody batted an eye. Clocks go back, it starts getting dark in an evening and someone walks past his desk and starts to tell him it’s too soon to have his Christmas decorations up. They’d walked past the desk hundreds of times before but not noticed the tinsel until it started to get near winter. My colleague did put their tinsel back up midway through December rather than just leaving it balled up.

I do have some fairly lights up all year though.

I have lights up all year round. At the minute my house is lit up with orange and red for Halloween, but the Christmas lights will replace them in the next couple of weeks and by mid November it'll be like Santa's grotto here. I don't go for all the flashing ones though (epilepsy and migraines), just nice warm white.

I think before Advent Sunday is too early.

But fairy lights seem to be a year round thing of late

I like to keep Chrsitmas at Christmas. DD and I put the tree up when she comes home from university for the holidays, so it will probably be the week before Christmas.

I saw my first Christmas tree yesterday. All lit up and everything.

I'd be well fed up of it by Christmas if it was in my house.

It’s been another brutal year. Continues to be uncertainty as to how the next few months will go. If it lifts people and makes them happy, I say go for it! Mine will start going up within the next fortnight!

Having fairy lights up is one thing, but actual decorations before December is too much. A Facebook friend posted a pic of a fully decorated tree tonight. It’s not even November until tomorrow!!

If it cheers people up, why not. Live and let live.

Feel my pain. The neighbours opposite of us never took their lights down. Around March/April the flashing holly leaves and snowflakes over the eaves gave up the ghost, but their dazzlingly bright matching outdoor Christmas trees have been faithfully blaring out all year.

Yes, I do want to kill them. By contrast, no, November 1st sounds positively reasonable.

I reckon by 14th mine will be ready for the festive season. However, it's Yule I celebrate (with a more traditional Christmas for the kids) so I like the dark months to be as well lit and pretty as possible, and most of my winter decorations stay up well into February including the tree - or as long as the needles stay put. Which was end of January last year.

Last year the decs went up on 1st dec here .. by the time Boxing Day arrived I was so sick of the Christmas tree taking up all the room I took it down. Dh said that was so depressing and I agree it was, so this year I’ll wait till later to decorate.
Tomorrow is way too early IMO

My outside lights will be going up the last weekend of November as that's when my DB is able to come and put them up for me (I have a disability so cant do it myself)

Actually, my tree will be going up that Sunday as well as I'm away the following weekend when I would usually do it, lights may or not be switched on that weekend will see if it feels too early

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@Aqua55

The fun Police are out already

No. I just don't enjoy Christmas decorations that have been up for twp months. I want Christmas to feel special, and it doesn't feel special if it starts too early.

@RampantIvy

Some people obviously do enjoy early Christmas decorations. Your feelings don't trump theirs

I appreciate the nuisance if lights are up and bright and glaring into bedrooms etc.

But why does it bother people if others are choosing to put lights/ trees/ decorations in/ outside the house?