Have you started decorating for Christmas yet?

I am a wait-er. Usually things go up after Thanksgiving.

I see some lights up on houses already. A friend put up photos already of their tree.

Not until December, I'd be sick of it by Christmas Day if I decorated now. The tree usually doesn't go up until mid-December, but stays up until New Year's.

I'm Canadian and many of us do not decorate for Christmas until after Remembrance Day on November 11th out of respect for our veteran's ...

I don't usually decorate until the first weekend in December ...

I wait until after Remembrance Day.

No! I actually took down my fall decorations and have a clean slate in my downstairs area, outside, and in my craft nook.

We always start the week of Thanksgiving since we are all off. It allows us to take out time and go through things to see if we want to donate/purge them. 

While I love to look at the decorations in the stores, I am not ready for it to be in my house. 

Not till after Thanksgiving. I still have my outside lights up though. Never took them down last winter. 😂😂😂

I usually start decorating at the start of Advent - this year, that’s December 3rd - or when the Christmas Markets open here ( November 27 this year).
When we still had our kids at home, I would wait longer, as my younger DS’s birthday is December 14, so I’d wait to have that out of the way.

I will be the day after Thanksgiving as we are hosting this year. If it's a year we are not hosting, I might put it up early Thanksgiving week as I'm always off, but even then it's all based on if I want to do it then or not.

It's all on me to put it up as my husband could care less. Now that I went to a 4ft tree versus the 7.5 we used to have it's much more manageable. Last year when I pulled it all out I went through and and donated a bunch of stuff and continued to do what with each season this year as I was changing things out. Would love to be down to 1 storage bin per season.

I was going to put up my tree last weekend but needed help getting it out of the garage. I ended up doing lots of yard work and didn't feel like putting up the tree. I'll probably put it up weekend after this as I'm going out of town this weekend. For sure, it will be up before the 30th when DS visits.

We used to be strict after Thanksgiving decorators, but I feel like it takes me a bit to get everything like I want it and my sons birthday is always right after and it’s always crazy. So, last year I talked my husband into decorating a bit earlier last year. I was shocked he went for it.

I have also been really trying to enjoy the month of December with my family and be really intentional about spending quality time together and not a grumpy stress case. I had gotten to the point where I wasn’t really even enjoying Christmas and was just doing it to get it over with and meet everyone’s expectations.

This Christmas we are leaving for Mexico from the 18-26, so we will be gone for Christmas and I just want to enjoy every second before we go, so when my college aged girls were home this weekend they all wanted to help and we did it together. I just love that we are doing it exactly the way it works for us and it’s crazy how spreading some of these things out really has cut the stress considerably!

I say, do what works for you and helps make your holiday more enjoyable!!

I'm going to get my outside lights and decorations up hopefully this weekend. I do this early while it's good weather and not too cold. I won't turn the lights on until I put my inside stuff up, usually the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving weekend, sometimes a bit later but never earlier.

Yes, my Christmas decorating is done as of today. I enjoy them way too much to only have them out a month. But I also have it all down and packed away on the 26th.

Do what makes you happy, whether that is now, later or never