To be super excited Christmas starts tomorrow!

[Imanautumn]

The elves have arrived, they’ve brought advent calendars, fluffy socks, Christmas teddies, Christmas pyjamas and Christmas bedding and a Christmas book to read :) not all new things I’ve got lots from charity shops so old but new to us :) I’m so excited I love seeing my kids happy faces - tell me about your Christmas traditions!

I hope u have a happy Christmas.
Please be aware that Christmas isn't enjoyed by everyone, for valid reasons.
It isn't about being boring

Yanbu 🥰🎄

I’m looking forward to the time off but not keen on Christmas itself since being a single parent has meant I spend a lot of it alone.

Where have you got that figure from?

The latest census figures show that 46% of the UK are Christians.

I think the OP is excited for the festive season. Me too! I love 1st December, advent calendars, a nicer breakfast and starting the countdown to Christmas!

When I was a kid, it started with St Nicholas Day - I'm just starting mine a week earlier

There’s some miserable fuckers in this world 😂😂

What, at midday on Christmas Day or something? 😂

OP, I am with you. The Christmas SEASON if it's more acceptable to some people has officially started.

I don't bother with Christmas stuff much, apart from the advent calendars and the elf but it's the beginning of all the Christmas activities and events, and the elf makes me laugh so I will be doing it for many years to come.

From Boxing Day we start looking forward to New Year'S Eve and January things, so the tree and everything can go, Christmas has gone. Who cares if people do it diferently?

Christmas does not start tomorrow. Advent started yesterday however.

Middle of Christmas would be NYE which is the day the seven swans start swimming.

I'm far more interested in the fact that it's only twenty days to the Solstice which to me is more meaningful than Christmas.

But, it is important to remember that we all do things differently, nobody is right or wrong whatever they celebrate and whenever they start and finish.

Kindness and acceptance should be our watchwords.

in your house, in my house and many others, it starts on the 01st December.
or the 06th

Or any day you want really

I'm thinking of getting Christmas bedding when I get my tree next week. It might be a nice touch

Gifts? Are these things in the advent calendar?

It's in no way negative to point out it's now Advent, not Christmas.
Christmas is a wonderful, joyful festival...its just not here yet!

Do you celebrate your birthday four weeks early?

Blimey, are you sure about this? (Not that I’m concerned from a religious point of view)

Perhaps the pedants screaming about advent would prefer we adopt the American method of referring to it as the holidays. The holiday season has begun- better?!

Nobody is screaming. Just enjoying the accuracy and mildly grumbling about inaccuracy.

Respectfully maybe they shouldn't click on a thread for people who are excited for Christmas then?

I'm happy too OP! Tree is up and I've worn one of my festive dresses to work today 🎄

And 99% of statistics are made up on the spot.

There’s a lot of really serious people on this thread! The OP starts enjoying Christmas 1st December, others don’t agree. So what? Maybe OP isn’t Christian and doesn’t give a shit about advent? Many people don’t apart from making sure they’ve got chocolate advent calendars to hand and that’s ok.

Good for you.😀 Merry Christmas🎄

We'll be having a quieter Christmas this year as DD has moved out and is now a police officer, working shifts dealing with all the drunks and burglars nicking people's Christmas presents.😟She will be putting our tree up for us though as she's always loved doing it.

Enjoy the children being at home etc and xmas with them. Before you look around they are grown up and have left home and you simply become an inconvenience and a second thought