Is it too early to put the Christmas tree up?

Yes

It absolutely is too early.
Our tradition is to have a large, Blue Nordman Fir tree chosen for shape and symmetry after the first week in December. It then stays in a deep bucket of water until around the 20th of December and then is brought in and carefully decorated. It is usually still looking beautiful by Twelfth Night with very little needle drop. After the decorations are removed it stands outside the French Doors for a couple of weeks longer, usually with some apples and fat balls added. I've come to the conclusion that the magic of Christmas is hard wired into me.

keepingquiet

Are you also buying Easter eggs? Making pancakes? Letting off fireworks and dressing up as a vampire?

If so then go ahead- have Christmas now as it clearly doesn't mean much but I wonder what you will do when January comes, maybe send Valentine's cards?

In fact why bother even having birthdays or anniversaries on the actual dates?

It seems we can do what we want in this crazy world so yes, go ahead.

I'm going to have Christmas at Christmas though, call me old-fashioned!

Totally agree with you. 👏👏👏

Yes, mee too. But your choice.

2nd weekend in December for us, any earlier and I’ll be dusting the cobwebs off of it all.

Your choice, yout tree, your home.
No need to worry what anyone else does.

I wouldn't even ask, entirely up to the individual. Me, I don't start decorating the house until well into December, although I do like Christmas lights. If you feel so inclined, put your Christmas tree up and enjoy it.

I also like foods in season, not just strawberries in June, and not in December, but also keeping certains foods or dishes with tradition. Hot cross buns are for Easter, etc.

YES!
It is FAR too early.
What I hate is when all the trees and decorations are dismantled on Boxing Day, when Christmas lasts until Epiphany.

We treat it as the midwinter festival our decorations will be up next weekend when my teenage gd,s come to stay .Its been their job to dress the tree for a few years now and they love it.They also marzipan the cakes made in October as teachers gifts None of us believe in religion so why should we follow guidelines for something we don’t agree with?

I have to say though that we have white fairy lights around the fireplace and around various parts of the kitchen and hallway all year round, so we are fairly well ‘lit up’ every evening.

It is still November. If you put it up any earlier why bother to take it down? Decorations have not gone up in my house since I was a child.

Oopsadaisy1

I have to say though that we have white fairy lights around the fireplace and around various parts of the kitchen and hallway all year round, so we are fairly well ‘lit up’ every evening.

We are the same , we have fairy lights in a couple of lanterns by the fireplace and the same in the kitchen fireplace they always cheer me up on a winters day .

Ours will go up next Sunday, the start of Advent.

They will come down four weeks later. Christmas is over then, and I want it clear before the New Year.

For me, yes it is, but neighbours who live on the corner of our road always had a wonderful window display of lights by this time in November. It was so cheering to come home on a dark wet night and be greeted by it. Sadly they moved earlier this year. The new people have put a tree up already though. I will have to wait until some kind soul volunteers to risk their neck on my loft ladder before mine can go up.

I'm a member of the "Keep Christmas in December" club.

Witzend

Must say I was a bit 😱 the other day at seeing dozens of big, real trees (cut, not potted) outside a big Asda.
You do have to wonder what sort of state they’ll be in by Christmas Day. Even the non-drop ones will hardly look or smell exactly fresh.

Christmas trees are all cut around the same time so when you buy them makes little difference. I live in an area that grows tress for the Xmas market and the trucks have been trundling by with netted trees for several weeks already!

I used to put up the tree in the week before 25th and leave it until 6th Jan but I have bowed to the majority and now put it up a bit earlier and take it down around NY. We’re having a fake tree for the first time this year so maybe I’ll leave it up all year!!

Well, I am going to appear a right old grinch .......... but it is way too early! Halloween and Bonfire Night is hardly over and pretty soon the Easter Eggs will be on sale!!

I just feel that Christmas gets longer and longer each year and people lose sight of the true meaning of it.

AND...........outside lights!!!! Sorry, but I wouldn't have ours up last year........they are on the OUTSIDE of the house and when it is dark our curtains and blinds are closed.....so we DON'T see them. They are simply there for the pleasure of the neighbours living opposite who have NEVER EVER bothered. They did ask last year where ours were and I offered to put them up and plug them into their home.......wierdly they didn't want that!

Yes for me! No for anyone who wishes to put theirs up!

We won’t be putting up our tree until December, we haven’t even bought it yet. However, what other people do is up to them.
My son put his tree up yesterday, well, one of his trees. He was down in his weekend house this weekend, and won’t be back until mid December, so he put up the tree in that house. They’ll put one up in the other house at the beginning of December I expect.

Currently backpacking around Sri Lanka to avoid the fuss as much as possible. On Christmas Eve my twig goes up with the decoration ( singular) and comes down on Boxing Day ! Christmas dinner hopefully will be a cheese sandwich and a flask of coffee as part of a hike up on the moors. Bliss. Then thankfully the whole palaver will be over for another year.

RosiesMaw2

It's not even December!

Love that.

Far too early for me, as I have a real tree.but even an artificial one would be dusty by Christmas if you put it up now,

My routine is to clean the house, buy food that can go in the freezer, and do the baking, buy and send presents and not even the Advent wreath makes its appearence until after my birthday on November 26!

The tree is bought and goes up on the 20th or 21st December and stays up until Twelfth Night

YEEEEES

Personal choice.