I'm going to get a head start this year and start decorating in the first week of December.... usually I leave it until the week before Christmas.

I don't decorate. I know that sounds awful, but I go on vacation mid to late December, and then I spend Christmas at my sisters house, where they go all out on the decorations. Since I am barely at home during the season, AND my place is postage stamp sized.. i don't bother.

I just switched some of my home decorating from summer/harvest to winter. Next weekend I will start adding in Christmas decorations, just a few at a time. By Christmas we'll be buried in decorations and then during my two week Christmas holiday we go back to bare and clean.

I like my house picture profit for the holidays, that being said I am going to start pulling my bins this week.

happy holidays

I am going to put my tree this weekend, it reminded me of when we were little, Dad didn't like the decorations up till the week before Christmas and took them down New Year's....My Mom loved Christmas, so after 50 + years of marriage, Dad took a liking to it....after he had a stroke, then it was him who would ask Mom if she could leave the decorations up longer...then it became a tradition, even after Dad passed away, Mom would leave her decorations up till Easter...she would amaze her family and friends with her classy trees with different color lights and bulbs of purple, gold, blue, silver, red and green themes. She left me a beautiful legacy not only with her wonderful trees but with her wonderful love, that she showed everyone. Christmas was a beautiful time but for her she celebrated it all year....Just a wonderful thot, hope it provoked you like it did me to enjoy life a little more...

First or second week of December, anything earlier is just wrong. Also, what I dont get is, people who buy real wreaths and trees, buying so early(such as now), the greenery will look dead and old by the 25th of December.

I start decorating the first of November.  I take down the fall/Thanksgiving/Halloween decorations that I put up Labour Day weekend on November 1 and start putting up the Christmas decorations.   It usually takes 3 days to put it all up but the house seems so cozy and like a Christmas Wonderland.  Because we are at work all day we only get to enjoy the view for those precious few hours after we get home from work until bed so we do not tire of the decorations at all.  

I have already started decorating.  That way, the house is ready for as much company as we would like and I am not rushed.  I can then enjoy the month of December with family and friends.  As for real trees being purchased early and dying by Christmas, this is false.  Our tree lasts much longer with daily watering, especially in the first 24hrs of being cut.  After New Years, we put our tree out on the deck and continue to enjoy it long after Christmas is done.  Merry Christmas!

i like to decorate and get in the spirit early, my boyfriend said as long as it's after rememberance day so i put up my tree on the 12th :)

As an American living in Nova Scotia, I never start to decorate until the weekend after American Thanksgiving, then I go all-out.  Though I must confess, I lie awake thinking of what I will do long before that.  I am in a new house this year and can't wait to do it all up this year and welcome friends to celebrate.

I'm with Melanie's guy - I like to wait until after Remembrance Day - I don't wish to take anything away from our veterans.  Once November 11th has been recognized I put my lights out on the tree in my yard to brighten up the back.  Then I do up the planter on the front porch - fill it with billowing greenery and willow branches - this year I've added a few plastic christmas balls to brighten it up.  Thanks.