I live in the US and I used to hate when christmas came before the day after thanksgiving but now I am the cheesy mom who feels that the day after Halloween is the beginning of Xmas lite. I won't go crazy till thanksgiving but in my heart it will be beginning to look a lot like Christmas. If you celebrate christmas when does it start for you?
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pear / 1787 posts
well i'm canadian so halloween is the last holiday before christmas for us! so usually once that has passed i'm in full on christmas mode!!! although my DH has a rule that the tree can't be set up until December 1st (but i've been pushing it up every year!).
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
I like how you said in your heart it will be Christmas time! I'm going to go with that. Technically, I feel like it doesn't start until after Thanksgiving, but I hate waiting that long!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I start Christmas shopping in October! But I don't start decorating or anything until after Thanksgiving.
coconut / 8861 posts
After Thanksgiving technically. I've already purchased a number of gifts for people. I purchase throughout the year anyway. I plan to take a day off close to the holidays to mail stuff out and wrap the other stuff for the visit to my parents.
pineapple / 12526 posts
After Thanksgiving. Im okay with seeing Christmas stuff after Halloween is over, though.
I HATE seeing Christmas stuff in Aug/Sept/Oct. So annoying. There are TWO holidays before you, Christmas! Stop being an attention whore and wait your turn!
persimmon / 1096 posts
I definitely start thinking about it, singing the occasional Christmas song, and even putting simple white candles in the windows before Thanksgiving - but I still like to celebrate Thanksgiving first, without really going full-on Christmas mode until the day after. I love the tradition of spending that Friday or weekend after Thanksgiving putting up the tree, decking out the mantles, and watching a few Christmas movies.
clementine / 933 posts
I start listening to Christmas music at any point after summer when I start to get grumpy 
It just puts me in a better mood! I start shopping as soon as I see the first thing I think will make a great gift. I work on my Christmas list all year long, and give it to my mom & MIL when they ask for it (some years, that's August. This year, it was over the weekend). Decorations go up the week before Thanksgiving because we travel for Thanksgiving and I like for the house to be ready to go when we get home.
To me, the decorations and Christmas music are part of how I celebrate Thanksgiving. November - December are "the holidays" and it doesn't bother me in the least when they overlap & combine. But there are plenty of people who think I'm blasphemous in these beliefs
pomegranate / 3858 posts
As a Canadian, I celebrate Thanksgiving in October - after that, I feel like I can start to celebrate the Christmas season (even if it's just at home) 
I love Christmas!
pomegranate / 3858 posts
@HeartAbandoned: Love it! I listen to Christmas music early too...I just enjoy it and it makes me happy! It's just in my headphones, so I'm not bothering anyone else...
pear / 1580 posts
I am not in Canada, and there are plenty of holidays between Halloween and Christmas, but I don't care! Once Halloween is over, it's Christmas music ALL. THE. TIME. Sorry, DH! 
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Definitely not until December for me. Sometimes I will buy a gift or two before then but no decorating or anything.
pomelo / 5298 posts
Normally not until Thanksgiving weekend. But since LO will be born about 10 days earlier than Thanksgiving this year, it is highly likely that our decorations will all go up Nov 1 this year. I've never been that early about it, ever.
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
I looooove Christmas and I start getting in the "Christmas spirit" after Halloween. I start listening to Christmas music and putting up decorations in November. I'm sure it's annoying to some, but oh well
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Usually not till after Thanksgiving. But this year we might have to decorate before Thanksgiving in case LO comes early!
watermelon / 14467 posts
I start getting in the Christmas spirit after Halloween, but I refuse to put up decorations (or buy them) until the day after Thanksgiving.
pomegranate / 3105 posts
We usually decorate for both Christmas and Chanukah mid-November. I already have finished most of my gift buying so really it's just somewhere to store the presents until they're doled out.
persimmon / 1343 posts
I decorate sometime after Thanksgiving, but I guess the Christmas season starts whenever I start feeling festive! Usually sometime in mid-November. I don't mind Christmas decor or music starting early, but it does surprise me a bit.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I decorate over the long Thanksgiving weekend, but I have already started shopping. I like fall décor so I keep that up until after Thanksgiving!
nectarine / 2765 posts
Not til Thanksgiving has passed. Last week the mall had Christmas wreaths up...made my blood boil. It isn't even Halloween yet! It doesn't get me in the Christmas spirit, it just pisses me off to be honest.
honeydew / 7303 posts
Usually right around Thanksgiving! I always shop lat minute though. Ugh!
blogger / kiwi / 588 posts
It's been tradition for me to put up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. So I guess that is when the Christmas season officially begins in our house!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
I don't decorate till after Thanksgiving!
Although this year, we might put our tree up Thanksgiving Day, depending on DHs work travel schedule. We will be gone Thanksgiving weekend and if DH is gone the next week. I don't want to wait till the next weekend. I want to enjoy it as long as possible.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Trees will probably go up the weekend of Thanksgiving, for the first time in my working life I am taking the Friday after off, specifically to decorate!
cantaloupe / 6164 posts
November here! My local radio station starts the Christmas music on Saturday, and I am SO EXCITED! I've already started shopping, but we'll start our Christmas festivities in November. I'm going to TRY to wait until after Thanksgiving to decorate.
grapefruit / 4997 posts
I start shopping in October for gifts and slowly put up the decor starting in November. The tree will be up after Thanksgiving though. I love Christmas!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
November!!
Technically we don't decorate til after thanksgiving, but just the sheer fact of it being the month of november puts me in the holiday spirit!
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
I don't decorate or anything until after Thanksgiving but I usually start in on the Christmas music & movies around October (but it appears randomly throughout the year at my house so I guess it just never ends! lol)
pomegranate / 3779 posts
@Caly: This. Christmas decorations up in October just ticks me off and I avoid going to the mall until after Thanksgiving.
We typically decorate for Christmas over Thanksgiving weekend or the next depending on what is going on.
bananas / 9899 posts
December 1st.
I'm in Canada where Thanksgiving is in October, so putting Christmas decorations up right after Thanksgiving would be too soon imo. We put up our Christmas decorations the last few days of November or the beginning of December.
Only 8 more Fridays until Christmas!
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
We don't decorate until after the American Thanksgiving. That said, I'm on a cleaning spree this afternoon during naptime and am listening to Christmas music. In October. SIGH.
pear / 1846 posts
December the 1st, we don't have thanksgiving and Halloween is mostly for kids. We have bonfire night on the 5th November but that doesn't involve decorating so no decorating of any sort till December for usuntil LO is old enough to have a pumpkin for Halloween.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I love Christmas! I shop early but don't get into it until November, and then we decorate the day after Thanksgiving.
apricot / 375 posts
Technically, we don't start decorating/playing music/watching movies until the day after Thanksgiving. But I'm already thinking about it and have been since August!
kiwi / 687 posts
Well, coming from a religious perspective, Advent season starts when it starts, usually Sunday after Thanksgiving. But Christmas season doesn't start until Christmas itself... I do know some people who take this very seriously and hate to hear Christmas music in advance of Christmas itself (eg. Joy to the World = Christmas as opposed to O Come O Come Emmanuel = Advent). The feast of Christmas then continues for 8 days (an "octave") and the season even beyond that, into mid January or even February. Most people don't make that distinction, I realize. I never really mind lights and trees and whatnot, but it bothers me more when people complain that decorations should be put away soon after New Years, because the season's technically only just begun!
nectarine / 2272 posts
My mom starts right after halloween and it annoys me to no end. I'm not huge on christmas, which people keep telling me will change when my LO comes home. But I do all my shopping thanksgiving weekend so I guess that's when it starts for me.
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