christmas light already?
 

i was talking to a friend the other day and she informed my she had already decorated her apartment for christmass including fake tree.....


is anyone else doing this yet???

Well, my mom is pulling out the artificial tree forest starting today.... got the first 2 of 15 full sized trees out of their boxes. Lots of furniture to trip over in the dark now.

I'm a bit confused about the wording of the poll so I voted '4 weeks before Christmas'. I think a good time for Christmas decorations is in December. Any earlier and it's weird, and they should be down by the start of January. Christmas = December, so that's when the decorations should be up :)

These are the rules, that I just made up...

The day after Thanksgiving is when I've always put decorations up... although last year, crack pestered me into putting them up a week earlier.

One of the local radio stations played Christmas music all weekend. I want to focus on Thanksgiving first...one holiday at a time, people!

Some people put up the Christmas tree and lights on Christmas Eve and take them down on Christmas Day. Man this is way too much work for such little time for it to be up. Putting up a Christmas tree and lights is on my top ten list for most time-consuming and troublesome events. I'm filled with Christmas Spirit!

My Grandmother used to put the Christmas lights up when Wal-Mart started to put out the Christmas stuff out. Each year it got earlier and earlier.....

She's gone now, but I still have fond memories of eating our Thanksgiving dinner around her Christmas tree and little ceramic village.

I like to play it safe and wait until the second weekend after Thanksgiving.

In my opinion, Christmas shouldn't even peek its head through the door until everyone's gone home from the turkeyfest. One holiday at a time.

Absolutely. My biggest gripe is seeing Xmas decorations in the malls before Thanksgiving. Everytime I see this, I have to let out an exasperated yell, "Damnit, the turkey's not even dead yet!" :D

I plan on doing it about Dec 1st or so, my first house is currently being built and won't be done till after Christmas is over but in future years no earlier than the weekend after turkey day.

The stores in my area started putting up their Christmas displays a week or two before Halloween. I think that's way too early. I can see stores being one holiday ahead to give peopl time to buy stuff, but two. Next thing you know, they'll start going up in July!

im sorry about the poll wording... it was supposed to be whenis the right time to put up decorations.. ya ya im stupid.. but it was m y first one and i didnt quite get it....

but if anyone cares i learned somthing....

Ok...I confess. I've already strung up the outside lights.
Of course, this doesn't mean that I'm going to turn them on. It's much to early for that. The weather here was just too damn good this weekend (upper 60's) not to get a jump start, and get them strung. It sure beats hanging off of an extension ladder in 25 degree tempeatures.

My lights will go up as soon as i can be bothered to do it. Judging by previous years i usually find that they go up about 3 days before chirstmas. The tree only ever gets bought on christmas eve. I find if you do this then it still looks nice on christmas day and also it make christmas feel like chirstmas.

Thanksgiving weekend is when we always decorate :)

My birthday is in early December, sometime during my early teen years, I made a house rule, that no decorations could go up and Christmas couldn't exist until after my birthday. (I got a little sick of the "combo" gifts or you'll get a better present at Christmas)

I maintained that when I moved out on my own, even though I don't give a rats patooty about my birthday anymore.. Christmas doesnt exist until it's come.

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id say i agree with you on that its one thing to put em up like now when its nice as long as you dont go turnign them on..

really its a damn good idea...

I put my own lights up right after turkey day. I have the day after as a holiday, so I use that day.

I think 2-3 weeks before is about right. When I was in college we used to decorate the tree right after Thanksgiving because that was the last time we'd be home together till just before Christmas, but even that felt too soon to me. I hate that Halloween and Christmas merchandise co-exists in stores. I think I'm boycotting Christmas this year and celebrating Yule instead, and making small, meaningful presents for friends and family. I'm going to try to buy absolutely nothing for the season. Ha! Take that you capitalist pigs! ;)

I'm always the one setting up the tree and lights at my parents house. So when i go home for Turkey weekend, i'll set up the tree and lights...:)

Hopefully i will have enough time, my parents always make me do yardwork :lol:

I think it should be a week or two after Thanksgiving, other all the holidays just run together and it's too soon.

Or like lurkette, you could just not put up decorations. :)

I just kind of move strings of lights out of the way as I'm trimming hedges. They never come down.

The wife and I started putting up our lights yesterday (Sunday), which is the weekend after Halloween. Since there is no option for "It's never too soon," I didn't vote.

But the day was beautiful, and you never know how many perfect Sundays you'll get between Halloween and Christmas.

They have had Christmas decorations out at the local Home Depot since just after LABOR FARGIN DAY! :mad: At least the stores could wait until post halloween to start putting up their wares. On the home front nothing goes up until the last bite of turkey has been eaten....however long that takes. :thumbsup:

up on xmas eve and down on boxing day!

Tree goes up Thanksgiving nite...weather permitting outside lights go up the day after..weather not permitting its the first day it does permit lol

They all come down new years eve...its bad luck to have them still up on new years day, or so my mother always said

Heh, holidays are ongoing. The day after a holiday ends, the next begins. Look in stores, lol.

Anyways, I voted 4 weeks, a month or so before Christmas is about right.

I don't know if this is a repeat post, or if I 'm remembering one from v. 3.0
But I'll repeat what I said then:

With me, it's like clockwork every year - they go up the weekend after Thanksgiving; they come down the weekend after New Year's.
Weather permitting, of course.

I agree with most of y'all - that weekend after Turkey Day is a perfect time to get "lit"! ...except that I keep mine Up for a few more weeks after Christmas, say, two weeks after New Year's Eve because it's usually gray & rainy here in Northern California and I love the lights and all the many candles we light nightly.

So, I guess I celebrate Russian Christmas, caviar and all....

Let There Be Light!

Hmmm... is that a southern tradition?


The three kings didn't show up til January 6 -- gotta keep the tree up til then :D

srry if this was a repeat... but i like all the diversity

Speaking of Christmas-y stuff, the lady from the business next door (well, actually, in the same building, we share a hallway) came over today to inform us of the above mentioned radio station, and ask if we were playing Christmas music yet. Everyone acted like I was Scrooge because I don't want to turn it on yet :rolleyes:


On the bad luck, my Mom said the same thing, only it was the day after New Year's. hmmm... I left for the States on January 3rd last year and ended up getting stuck for a few months...I don't think crack took the tree down until March :lol:

I rarely have a christmas tree, I just can't be bothered with the fuss... Last time I had a tree, thankfully it was a fake one... but I got so busy, I had no time nor desire to take it down.... So it became the holiday tree.

I have shamrocks for St Patricks Day, Eggs for Easter, Hearts for Valentines Day, Little shovels and pails for the start of summer -- every month the tree had a new theme... it fun... and the tree stayed up year round...

Last year was the first Christmas I'd had a tree or really done the holiday thing in fifteen years or so. Now that I'm married and have a stepdaughter the holidays are a lot more fun! The tree will go up the first weekend in December and come down the weekend after New Years. We bought a ton of lights last year after the holidays so I'll probably start stringing the outside of the house and yard in the next few weeks and continue untill we turn them on in December.

I'm always amused every year at the Scrooges and grumps slithering through department stores every year grumbling and griping and complaining about it being TOO EARLY TO PUT UP THEIR DAMN CHRISTMAS STUFF.

AND YOU DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN, TOO.

Ingrateful wretches! Take the happiest, most joyful and forgiving moments in the entire Christian calendar and GRIPE about it. Sheesh.

Christmas lights not til beg. of decemeber, tree doesn't normally get bought until mid-december

Hey, I'm all about being joyful and forgiving...that should be going on year round. It's the rampant commercialism that annoys me.

Oh Bah Humbug on you... :icare: I spent entirely too many Christmasses working in retail. Christmas brings out the absolute worst in people, especially when shopping. I have earned my disgust of the holiday season and with people in general -- if it were up to me, i'd hibernate between Halloween and President's Day. :D

The weekend after Thanksgiving is the traditional cut off on Christmas lights.

Confusing poll...

5 weeks before and weekend after thanks giving..
same thing in my mind.


Anyways, i picked 5 weeks. Doesnt mean it will be completed that week, but it'll start.

2-3 weeks before is acceptable, definately down before New Year's Eve. That may, in fact, be a Southern tradition - my mother always scoffed at people who had their lights up after New Year's as being incredibly tacky. and that's the point, in my opinion. it's not about destroying the meaning of the season or not liking the christmas time and the happy happy joy joy, but protecting it by making sure it doesn't become debased.

Anytime's too early, if you ask me.
No particular religious objections, it's just that Christmas decorations are so damn ugly.
The only acceptable place for Christmas decorations is Santa Island, home of Captain Santa!

Jesus.

No. I've no interest in putting all that stuff up until it's waaaay closer to Christmas. Seems like the ho ho ho starts earlier every year.

Its not 5 weeks every year...

I think it depends on how the weekends line up...

But as the poll shows....


most people are choosing week after turkey day....no matter when it falls....

but thanks for contributing to this pole...

Right around Thanksgiving is fine, earlier is bad!!

The mall I occassionally work in already has had a Christmas tree up, decorations, and been playing music for a week now. It all started going up before the first of November. Im going to be so sick of this holiday before thanksgiving is even here. :(

i was gonna make this lol...i saw someone tonight with lights up already /shrug

i dont start to setup for xmas til after turkey day..

Mine went up two days ago. I'd say any lights up before 2 days ago is way too early.

I'm a firm believer in that you shouldn't set up stuff before Thanksgiving - a very important holiday being tossed aside so people can buy gifts earlier than they need to be. Also, what the crap, it hasn't even snowed yet. Lights hanging up with leaves still on trees just seems wrong.

I love the Holiday as much as the next person, but setting up for the Holiday this ridiculously early is a tad overboard in my book. But once the snow comes around, go for it and set up dem lights! One of the best parts of the Holiday.

There are no less than three people on our street that have their decorations up and lit already. I can understand taking advantage of the remaining nice weather to get some of your outdoor tasks completed. But to actual plug the lights in every night, and its not even Thanksgiving yet? Gimmie a break!

I think traditionally any time after Dec 1 is ok. On the flip side to the question when do you take your tree down? One year we were so lazy it stayed up until mid March before we took it down!