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Nov 2020
11:15am, 10 Nov 2020
28,778 posts
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Wriggling Snake
There are others around here...but yes, perhaps you never quite know why somebody has put them up...more to come though!
I will admit to 2 christmas puds, a christmas cake, crackers, mincemeat but that's just food and needs to done early, plus gold coins and fruit pastilles for the socks, but that's just food as well...no lights, defo no lights no tree
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Nov 2020
11:31am, 10 Nov 2020
2,330 posts
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BarefootEm
I haven't seen any so far... but I tend to stay away from the populated areas for the most part where I can. I'm going to be on the look out now 
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Nov 2020
11:52am, 10 Nov 2020
1,231 posts
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Turtlemama
Traditionalist here: Christmastime begins at Advent. When I was little, nothing was put up until the weekend before Christmas Day, unless that itself was a weekend in which case it was the weekend before. Not to have more Christmas cheer, but so my parents didn't have too much to do on Christmas eve!
When I moved out, I generally put things up 10-14 days in advance. Now I have the turtle, I do it at the start of December for her (tree a little later to avoid too much needle droppage)
On the flipside, I can't stand Christmas stuff being up well into the New Year. I know 12th night and all that, and my parents leave everything up and take down on 5th. For me, it all has to be down after New Year's Day. Something about not liking the old year persisting in the new, plus once TP is back working and schools are back, Christmas is long forgotten!
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Nov 2020
12:13pm, 10 Nov 2020
10,260 posts
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lammo
I'd go for dec's up a couple of weeks beforehand, but mrs lammo is keen to get them up earlier and the kids love it, so I keep my inner scrooge to myself
My daughters birthday is the 28th December, so we now have everything down on 27th.
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Nov 2020
12:16pm, 10 Nov 2020
28,785 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Excellent, everyone has an 'inner scrooge', it is a matter of when and how it kicks in
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Nov 2020
12:23pm, 10 Nov 2020
5,588 posts
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Wine Legs
I go for first weekend in December for putting the tree up. Lights outside might go up sooner considering everything is a bit miserable at the moment. They're just colourful though, and not Christmassy.
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Nov 2020
12:48pm, 10 Nov 2020
2,817 posts
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Fellrunning
We have large vases around the house with seasonal things that have been gathered. At the moment it's very autumnal but will gradually start to look more Christmassey. The Chapel starts to get decorated at the start of Advent. The house on Christmas Eve. It's all natural stuff so won't last long anyway. It gets cleared out on New Years Day if we have time. All gets burnt at Epiphany (6th Jan).
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Nov 2020
12:19pm, 11 Nov 2020
20,029 posts
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DeeGee
My birthday is on December 8th. I can't control the fact that outside of my home it's all Christmas and therefore I have never been able to go out for a "normal" birthday meal and drinks with a group of mates like everyone else, but I can keep my birthday special at home, so we always put the tree up on December 9th.
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Nov 2020
12:26pm, 11 Nov 2020
28,813 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I can't remember the last time I did a birthday thing with mates...walked on the canal today, no pics, must try harder.....
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Nov 2020
12:32pm, 11 Nov 2020
1,727 posts
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WtnMel
I'm not at all religious but can't stand the over-commercialisation that happens around the 'xmas' season. So seeing xmas decorations up on 10th Nov is a bit of a joke in my opinion. And I don't 'get' the fact lots of people are planning to put a tree up at the start of Dec either? I sincerely hope Mrs Wm doesn't have any ideas like that. She wanted the tree up early last year so I wasn't surprised it started dropping needles and ended up looking a bit naff before xmas had actually arrived.
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