When does the Christmas countdown start for you?

[MrsCK]

For me the first episode of the x factor signals nights starting to close in, blackberries on the bushes and the first countdown to Christmas.

When is it for you?

We don't start anything official till December though, tree gets bought a week or so into the month and decorations go up with it, advent calendar obviously from the 1st and we have a few other things from decoration day onwards (new Christmas DVDs, Christmas duvet covers, Christmas mugs etc so they get a good bit of use before they get put away again).

Now really.

I always start getting extra excited in August as I know Autumn's round the corner, but as soon as the kids go back to school in Sept i'm in full on buying/organising mode.

Love it, absolutely obsessed with Christmas. Jingle bells ;)

September. As soon as it's September I know Christmas is near, always been that way since school when we'd go back after the six week holidays and time would fly from that point on.