It is November 5. It is too damn early to put Christmas crap out.
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Yup!
Also too damn early for winter and Christmas beers.
For fuck’s sake - things go too quick as it is, stop trying to rush things, people!
Those aren’t Christmas decorations, they’re winter holiday decorations, so they are in the clear.
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Anything before Thanksgiving, you can put up the lights, not trees, but you can’t turn them on except to test
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Thanksgiving was weeks ago.
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I live in the land of winter darkness. I will take all the lights and decorations - if it makes you happy - light it up!
Then have at it.
my opinion - nothing up before Remembrance Day (Veterans Day to you Americans).
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I just looked it up and you guys get 45 minutes less daylight than we do on the solstice. For some reason, I thought the difference would be more.
We are now firmly entrenched in “grey season” which will last until around May.
Has to be after American thanksgiving. Cannot have two holidays going at once. I Colombia they had them all up in early November. Santa in the tropics.
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Sounds like the war on Xmas has begun once again.
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That was generally my rule of thumb.
I believe Starbucks was one of the first companies that breached that line. All of a sudden, the day after Halloween you’d go in for a coffee and be smacked in the face with full blown Christmas lights, decor and music.
You can’t really monetize Remembrance Day. Best just to ignore it completely (from an advertisement perspective).
Bring it!
We don’t until after Thanksgiving. But anytime in November anywhere else is good for me.
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The rules are simple. No new holiday decorations go up until after the preceding holiday, and in no case more than 30 days prior to the holiday in question.
Christmas decorations don’t go up until plastic turkeys and pilgrim hats come down.
The decorations themselves don’t bother me a great deal, but the reason behind their early emergence (endlessly and increasingly monetizing the holiday) does make me hate them.
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I’d say before Thanksgiving. We have a new person at work. She went from using a tall narrow fake Christmas tree as the under girding for a Halloween ghost, straight to just decorating it as a Christmas tree.
By late November I could fry an egg on my roof tiles. I put my Christmas decorations up in November but don’t turn them on until December 1st.
I want to enjoy the holiday lights for as long as possible after the time change. It makes my 5pm after work r*ns much more enjoyable in the dark. I think November is perfectly reasonable to start putting up lights. Trees? Wait till after thanksgiving generally. Exception being in my family growing up, we would alternate my dad’s and mom’s side for thanksgiving or christmas. So having the tree up on thanksgiving with the whole family together was pretty fun.
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True. Outside lights are always welcome. We don’t put the tree up until after my husband’s birthday (Dec 6). I like it because the kids know and don’t bug us to put it up before that.