When do you get excited about Christmas?

[Pheesh]

My house is full of premature holiday cheer right now. There's Christmas decorations being made by hand with Christmas songs blaring in the background, and I imagine a tree will be up in the next few days. I don't bother with Christmas prep until a week or two before the day, if that, but it's in Lockharted's hands so our house turns into Santa's workshop before December even rolls around.

How festive are the rest of you? Do you leave your shopping till Christmas Eve and decide what everyone's getting on the spot, or do you put your tree up in November like a crazy person?

[Shauna]

I get all my shopping done pretty swiftly because I hate having to deal with doing the shopping during December. Screw actually being in those horrendous crowds.

But for when I actually start getting excited? Probably following everyone forgetting about my birthday. That's when I can fully commit to Christmas, as the other yearly event relevant to myself has passed!

[escobert]

I shop at the last minute and yeah not very festive

[Pike]

Early - mid October. I always feel over Halloween already by about then.

Edit : this is for decorations. Shopping is done during Steam sales (I only shop for Huxley and I only get him games )

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I don't.

[Shorty]

I get less festive as I get older I have a dream of having a totally nerdy Christmas tree with ornaments of all of my favorite things like Firefly and Harry Potter and book and cat ornaments and just an overall fantastic Christmas decoration spread.

We really went all-out in my family when I was a kid. My mom would shop for rustic santas, have us collect pinecones to put into decorative bowls with spices and potpurri to make the room smell like Christmas, would spray-paint paper mache reindeer and cut and make dozens of tiny Christmas ribbons to tie onto the glass orb hooks. Lots of ribbon and pinecones and forest-y rustic decor. We were big on Christmas decorations then and I miss it. I'll pick up the festivity again someday when I have more space!

[Aulayna]

Usually around mid-November. Although these days it usually just makes me homesick and wish I was a kid again, as I've worked pretty much every Christmas for 9 years now (7 of which on Christmas Day itself), so I can be a bit of a negative nancy about it. Especially when people get troutty with me on Christmas Day, it's like... please... go and celebrate, not make my day a misery.

[Pumpkin]

December 1st

[blackmage_nuke]

Whenever I think of a funny Christmas facebook status and cant wait to post it.

[Mirage]

around new years eve

[Dat Matt]

Likely December 25th. I understand the appeal of festive cheer, but getting people in the Spirit in early November really annoys me. It just means that people are spending money on Christmas 2 months prior to the event, thus ensuring that business receive good sales during November,

Also means working in retail must be hell for anyone in November now too, as well as December,

The actual day is fine, just all this premature build up.

[fire_of_avalon]

ITT we see the people who are good at foreplay and those who maybe not so much do the whole foreplay thing.

I get in the Christmas mood right after Thanksgiving but it usually gets smurfed up somehow and I mope around until about a week before Christmas and then get super happy again.

[Night Fury]

Also means working in retail must be hell for anyone in November now too, as well as December,

It is. I only worked 2 Christmas periods in retail. First one was awful, second one a little better because I had more authority and less patience for people/didn't feel like I had to be as patient with people.

Seriously, people get like extra self-entitled around the Christmas period. 70% of customers are just awful to be around at this time. You always get a few customers who are just lovely though, and make you want to go out of your way to help them, which is nice.

[Pike]

"Retail for twelve years and I still start celebrating Christmas in October" reporting in.

[Psychotic]

I need to have watched the Muppets Christmas Carol, and I usually - but not always - do that on Christmas Eve.