to decorate for Autumn today and not wait until later in September?

[TimeForAutumnDays]

We decorate our house for Autumn each year and usually do it the first week in September. I mentioned it to someone I know who said ‘you can’t do it yet as it’s not officially Autumn.’ Obviously I can do it when I like, but IF you decorate for Autumn, when do you do it? 🍂 🎃

If you don’t like decorating for autumn, see it as stuff for landfill, plastic tat, just another American thing etc, this probably isn’t the thread for you. 😊

Things change. Definitions change. Our climate is definitely changing. Where I live in Scotland, it is most definitely winter by 1st December. May and early June is very often very warm and dry, June is definitely summer.

Yeah, I am waiting til 22nd September, because I still have a garden full of flowers, (about 25 large/tall sunflowers too.) It's been 18-20C this week, and really warm when the sun is out.

My Autumn display will be going up on 22nd September - the Astronomical Autumn - when we reach the equinox. (The meteorological Autumn is 1st September.) I'm still heavily in summer mode here! Wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and shorts most of the time I'm at home/in the garden. No heating on here yet either. It was 17C at 5.30pm yesterday.

Up to you if you want to do it now though @TimeForAutumnDays

Why would a complete stranger post for attention from a load of other complete strangers?

I’ll be doing mine this week. It is feeling much colder so autumn is here as far as I’m concerned and the children are back to school so summer is over!

We have autumn throws, cushions, garlands, door wreaths, lots of pumpkin and acorn themed stuff. I’ll try to remember to post a few photos when I’m done.

I don’t decorate my house for autumn, but I am wearing boots today. I think there’s a logical connection here.

I saw an autumn wreath and light up garland on a front door yesterday. It was very pretty but it did feel too soon - it’s still sunny and relatively warm but the decorations had more cosy vibes, almost halloweeny as they were quite orange. I think wait until it’s officially autumn and the chance of September heatwaves has passed. It’s nice to enjoy the seasons as they are instead of prepping for the next one too soon (thinking of the bloody Christmas decorations already in supermarkets)

Do what you want, it’s your house.

My autumn decorating is just putting the lights on earlier. 🫤

Oh, sweet summer child 🙈

😆

My sister told me it was too early when I said was putting the autumn decorations out this weekend. Apparently I should wait til 21st. 🤔 I’m definitely putting them out this weekend though as the weather is feeling very Autumnal here.

I got a pumpkin table runner, some napkins and an autumn design throw in Next to add to our Autumn collection of things.

lol. Do you need a break from the internet? She could hardly fit the full circumstances in the title. Most people read the full OP before responding surely? It’s a bit of decoration for Autumn, nothing to get so annoyed about. Have a 🎃 and chill out.

It feels a bit early to me - I’m still hoping for a bit of an Indian summer. And I’m going away for a week to Greece this month so am definitely still in summer mode. BUt it’s up to you. Do whatever you feel like.

I don’t do very much - my autumn/Halloween bits fit in a shoebox. But I do put rugs on the sofa and draw the curtains once it’s dark and I have some candles going sometimes. Although so many make me sneeze I use battery operated ones a lot.

I did buy a nice cosy jumper yesterday that I’m looking forward to feeling autumnal enough to wear…

I have a "seasonal windowsill" by my front door, so not decorating as such, but I change the wooden ornaments I have on there according to the season. I will be swapping to autumn in about a week I'd say, but it depends on the weather really.

Great thread @TimeForAutumnDays

Autumn is definitely my favourite season, and we love having a gander at the Halloween section in The Range!

Please decorate your house and post up some pics of said decorations...

@WhatATimeToBeAlive didn't know that re the Equinox - ta

It's autumn weather here, so if I decorated for Autumn I'd do it now. I decorate for Halloween, so will be doing that at the start of October. I'm decorating for Christmas this year the last week of November, because I've got a really busy December. I'm that sad I'm looking forward to getting in my loft and organising what I'm doing. I go with a theme, I've bought new things and I'm doing a pumkinhead/vintage ghost train theme this year. I'm doing a elf-on-the-shelf type thing with a pumpkin skeleton I've bought from B&M. I don't do elf-on-the-shelf.

I decorate for all the seasons and always do it early in the month before it officially becomes that season. Meteorological autumn has already started though!

I thought you meant that you painted/wall-papered your house every single autumn at first glance!

I take it you mean dressing up the house, though, like many people do for Christmas?

I've not heard of 'decorating for autumn' before; but if that's what you do in your own home, do whatever you want whenever you want; it's nobody's decision but yours (and any other householders').

I once read about a man who celebrates Christmas every day - keeps the house decorated permanently, tree up all the time, Christmas dinner every day etc. Not my cup of tea personally, but equally none of my (or anybody else's) business whatsoever.

@MyDadWasAnArse what's the name of the Facebook group please? Link doesn't work for me, and I'm interested in others' ideas.

Thank you

I'll be doing more so over the next week having already started (and hopefully making some more decorations). The equinoxes are more mid-autumn / spring, like the solstices are mid-winter / summer. Seasons aren't about temperatures, they're more about how nature is moving with autumn being a time of harvest. For many people this means autumn is August, September and October.

Also, your house, decorate how you want ><

The reality of our seasons isn’t strictly bound by dates on a calendar. The solstices and equinoxes are important and fixed, but for most people ‘autumn’ is more a matter of what nature is doing in a particular year - what’s still flowering, what’s fruiting, are the leaves turning, what’s the weather doing.
here it’s on the cusp of ‘autumnal’.
I CBA faffing with seasonal decoration but if someone does it’s obviously purely up to them when they feel like doing it.

Only if you frequent the type of shop that sells all sorts of crap like B&M, The Range etc. I didn't see any when I was in M&S last week.

OP I’ve some new throws and cushions for the couch coming today and they are in autumn colours so I’m getting the autumn stuff from the attic later . It’s only my third year doing the autumn thing but I love it I actually think I enjoy it as much as Christmas

You’re obviously not, as no actual adult would speak like that.

I like having a few bits up but I feel it’s too early for me. Probably beginning of October.

September is autumn. It's the first of the autumn months, so it's fine. I don't decorate for the seasons but if I did I would consider now perfectly fine for autumn decorations.