As you know, the planet enters a time warp about November and time accelerates alarmingly towards the end of the year and the days pass faster and faster and the days get very short. Thank God there is a week between Christmas and New Years just to catch our breath. Do your Xmas shopping now so you don't get trampled or flattened by a snow plow.|||i would acctully recommand the christmas season the day after thanksgiving thats when i start to get in the mood
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|||I agree that Christmas starts early every year, but ive noticed in the past 10 years its not as bad, i think people cottoned on to the fact that toy company's or as they are now called, Greedy Company's, were taking away the magic of christmas, as adults we can understand the need for profit and christmas in 2008 is mostly about profit, BUT to a child it should be about love, happiness, giving and enjoying christmas time, so i think October is just about right to maybe be receiving Xmas catalogs or the odd decoration here and there, but a child should never be in the christmas spirit until December 1st, that's what i can't forgive the manufacturers for, feeding a child's mind in September for prezzies. my decorations go up around 1st dec, and the presents are usually already in, look at it this way, can you imagine the panic and disaster if everyone left it to December the 20th, i call it secret christmas from oct to dec, and real christmas around the beginning of dec, i think i'll stop now my fingers are hurting, Happy christmas.||| Most retailers get a "jump" on the holidays to try and get you to start thinking of Christmas and start buying so they can sell it all to you .and more ,and they can make more money The stores are already full of Christmas trees and decorations everything and anything to do with the holidays which seems so odd before Halloween and Thanksgiving but they push more and more every year it is their biggest markup time but most of us do not actually start till the day after Thanksgiving . the real "kickoff time " many are now thinking of Holiday cookie parties and what they will be doing for the holidays Yes it is full of commercialism but it is up to the consumer not to over spend It is still Christmas and a wonderful time|||It depends on the person itself. Usually if someone loves christmas you start doing things like that early december. Advent is a time when you start celebrating like having advent calenders. Christmas trees tend to go up early december too. There is no wrong or right time to start celebrating christmas although some people do say that if you sing christmas songs now it is bad luck haha.
Ask yourself when YOU want to start celebrating Christmas. Its not up to anyone else :)
Hope that helps. xx|||Some of us love Christmas so much that we think about it, plan for it and shop for it all year round.
To keep in the mood, I ususally make a "love" gift for one of the people on my list. A "love" gift is something that takes time to make. As I sew it, I try to keep my thoughts around the person I'm giving the gift to.
Because I love Christmas so much, it's hard for me to wait until Dec. 25 to give my favorite people their Christmas gifts, so many times the item I make for them is something that they can use during the holdiday season, like a quilted wall hanging, a Christmas angel or a reindeer doll.
On a more personal note, I start Christmas shopping right after Christmas (cards, wrap, ribbon, tags, Christmas fabric). I put my tree up the first week of December. I write out Christmas cards over the Thanksgiving weekend and mail them by December 10. I start making my reindeers and rabbits and quilts and stockings and ... usually in March and that just goes on until Christmas Eve. I try to have everything but the food done by December 15. The baking of cookies, the making of fudge and pecans are done that week before Christmas. My famous display of popcorn balls, mineolas and walnuts I do on Christmas Eve day (because it won't last otherwise).
I have never thought of Christmas as an actual date, but a frame of mind. |||I have already started shopping, but not "celebrating". We will start playing Christmas music after Thanksgiving, but we really don't start any festivities until we all go back to New England in mid-December. When we get back there my dad and stepmom usually have some decorations up, but they wait for me, my sister and our three girls to get there before they do the tree... |||the 20th.
Tree goes up, physically give cards to people and if we have decorations, we put those up.
However we send cards through the mail around the 15th.
We buy christmas cards, decorations etc in January during the post christmas clearances.
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if it counts we celebrate st nicholas day on the 6th of dec, because my parents are from eastern europe and they celebrated it then, not on the 25th.|||You will see alot more of that, they know times are tough and that people are starting to buy earlier in order to get all their shopping done. For me its to early to be celebrating BUT it's never to early to start my shopping. I have a 5 year old to buy for and ton's of neices and nephews and the rest of my huge family. I don't decorate until after thanksgiving though. I enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving first:)|||that's a little early for celebrating... i agree. i think about it (:D) but i don't actually put up decorations or send out cards (which i dont do... but buy gifts and send e-mails 2 my friendsies) until after thanksgiving. i do make my list early, though, because my mom starts shopping in november and with all of the crazy advertising going on i cant help it ;). a christmas ad?! in my family it's always a big event when one of us sees the first xmas ad :D. i don't watch 2 much TV, though, so i might have missed the first one!|||I buy my presents throughout the year and my Christmas cards in the New Year for the following year (when they are cheapest). I then get them written around November and also wrap my presents. I then forget about it as far as the television and shops will let me, until Christmas day. I don't have decorations because I spend Christmas day at my son's.|||i hate that christmas starts in september now (i swear to god, they had christmas decorations up in penny's [any irish folk will know what penny's is] in mid-september). we put up our christmas decorations on the 8th of december. i don't know why that day but that's the day. we take them down on the 7th of january after little christmas/women's christmas/whatever you call what happens on the 6th of january.|||well .. i do think october is early for christmas ads and what not..but i am already excited.. we put trees up mid november and send out cards early december. and the christmas tree comes down early early january. and we usually shop for christmas presents early november
hope i helped some! ;]|||personally in december but i respect the fact that everyone is different
it is up to each of us how much or how little or how soon or not at all
for those who complain it is too soon they should just ignore it
for others enjoy
that is how i see it
good question u asked
|||I start celebrating Christmas when it's finished.
I put up decorations early December, but only because it gives the cat something to do - and I never send out cards, and rarely can afford presents.|||i sing christmas carols all year
i get in the spirit in september
i start buying in oct/nov
and the last minute stuff + decorations in december
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|||on December... when everyone of us who went to school are all home for the christmas break... that's the time we put up the decors. as for the cards, we send out cards anymore. we email our relatives who lives far away. |||We send out cards in early December and put up the decorations in the first week of December. I start listening to the carols the day they start playing though.|||the christmas trees in shops is to say it soon christmas and we sell some
but i would start celebrating christmas on the 1st day of December|||I think traditionally people start to celebrate christmas a few weeks before xmas day. Its way to early yet though!!!|||Decorations on christmas eve and post the cards 10 days before|||I put my decs up the first weekend of December so about that sort of time but i start my shopping before that tho|||Usually when school has broken up. But if i have a big present, it will be something i look forward to from like now!!|||i put up my decs on thanksgiving day
and i start to celebrate dec 1!
|||Every good day is Christmas for me. I thank GOD for that|||On Christmas day and not a moment before.
It is a must for sanity. All that preparation is not celebration and should you forget something "Stuff it" who cares?
Life is not a fairy tale, if you have to have a fairy tale life.
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Oh, sorry, as for decorations and the tree up, it is a matter of if and when I feel like it. Christmas cards "Just in time" (very Japanese you know).
Yes, it is way too early to be celebrating Christmas.|||i dont celebrate christmas till the week before when i buy the presents. i dont have much patience with christmas it drives me mad
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