TOO EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

[Shorty]

The white trees are the best!

[Del Murder]

Prior to Thanksgiving is too early. Though when Thanksgiving is late like it is this year, I guess people can't resist.

Miriel and I usually get a little tree and decorate it with our awesome ornaments. I'll put up a pic once we get it up.

[Shauna]

My birthday falls close to Christmas, so it doesn't feel like Christmas until my birthday has been and gone. So yes, I feel that there is a too early for Christmas, but that's because I'm selfish. :3 People who don't have December birthdays will never understand this pain. :3

My birthday is three days before Christmas and it's great December is so festive to me!

My birthday is ~2 weeks before Christmas. Just far enough away for me to if people suggest getting me a joint birthday-Christmas gift, and close enough that nobody has any time or money to actually celebrate my birthday in any meaningful way. Regardless. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it.

I do love Christmas and I get full of the Christmas spirit. Tree goes up on the 14th Dec every year, without fail.

[Jinx]

The white trees are the best!

I know, I love white trees best, too.

[Psychotic]

I saw the pictures, Psy, and I have to say I was more concerned about what was on TV behind the tree!

Can I just go on record to say I absolutely smurfing hate that show and make my opinions very clear whenever it is on.

[Jinx]

I saw the pictures, Psy, and I have to say I was more concerned about what was on TV behind the tree!

Can I just go on record to say I absolutely smurfing hate that show and make my opinions very clear whenever it is on.

You're such a Luke!

[Calliope]

If we're talking aesthetics, a few candles and well-placed thoughts are best.

These are our Christmas decorations, we leave the elves up year-round. Few things strike me as as horrifying as chopping down a live tree in exchange for a few weeks of merriment.

[Jinx]

Do you not have a tree, Calliope? I think live trees are beautiful, but they're just too much of a hassle, and kind of dangerous fire-hazard-wise. I'd rather just have a fake tree I can reuse.

[Calliope]

We never have a tree, because our desire for a clutter-free space overrides any desire for a society-mandated ornament.

[Jinx]

That's cool. I mean, no judgment. I was just curious!

[Calliope]

For sure! My in-laws have a live tree every year, and it's something I enjoy - but they have an eight-bedroom house and not a one-bedroom apartment. Even if I had a large house though, I don't think I could bear to have a tree, live or plastic.

[Sephex]

My personal rule is that I don't acknowledge Christmas until after Thanksgiving is over. As long as it isn't July or something, I don't care when other people start to put up their Christmas stuff.

Though, it doesn't matter anyway because the massing of the Christ is all lies and god doesn't real. ~Rudolph the Red Fedora.

[noxious.sunshine]

Our custom has always been to put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm known to do this and leave the tree up until July if it's fake. XD

[Miriel]

It bothers me when retail stores start doing Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving because I love the Fall asthetic so much, and to skip right over it is a shame. I love the oranges and golds and the pumpkins and leaves and it's all just so pretty and warm and cozy. Day after Thanksgiving is fine. Celebrate things as they're happening, not so far in advance as to ignore the other seasons and events.

[Pike]

It bothers me when retail stores start doing Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving because I love the Fall asthetic so much, and to skip right over it is a shame. I love the oranges and golds and the pumpkins and leaves and it's all just so pretty and warm and cozy. Day after Thanksgiving is fine. Celebrate things as they're happening, not so far in advance as to ignore the other seasons and events.

I guess with all the stores I've worked in, everything is moved up so you're not actually skipping or ignoring anything, just doing it early. Autumn decorations and stuff starts in like... mid-July. Hell, we're getting spring/summer stuff in right now. (I'm not even joking.)

I love the autumn aesthetic as well but we get a ton of it so I feel that I'm ready for winter by November for sure. (Not to mention that here in Montana, nature herself says that autumn is over by Halloween, which is when it starts snowing).