am I being unreasonable thinking its too early for decorations

No - you are not. I love Xmas but am happy to keep it to the few days.

No you are not - we don't think about C*******s until at least after the annual Street Fair which, this year is 13-15 November! We had a tradition of decorating the tree on the day the children broke up for the C*******s holidays and try to stick to a day as close to that as possible!

Hope you are feeling ok Mishap

Got to make the puds soon though! Comes round so quickly. I start to think about it after Dd's and grandkids school half term. No decs till a week or two before!

It's ridiculous. Our local M&S has Christmas presents on sale. Bah humbug..

Our local M&S had a silvery Christmas tree up when I nipped in last week!

JL has had it's C*******s Dept open for a while - somehow I don't mind that as it's so lovely! #conformingtostereotype

Christmas is bad enough at Christmas, without "celebrating" it weeks in advance. You are not being unreasonable at all. I dread the annual over-eat/over-spend/over-socialise fest.
Sorry. Just don't like Christmas.

I booked 'Breakfast with Santa' at Dobbies this morning for the 4 visiting GC's. I wanted Christmas Eve, so had to do it the minute booking opened at noon. Going to forget all about C.........s now for at least 5 or 6 weeks (apart from learning my lines for a C........play )

Obviously you are not wrong to think it is too early for you but others may like it. I start in January making presents for the next year and by September tend to have a few things around as I am photographing decorations I have made, etc.

I currently have a small tree up, a Santa on the hearth (don't like to dump him on the floor as if he isn't wanted); he's a prototype design, a Sleeps Before Christmas rag doll nightdress case and a rag wreath on a chair waiting to be packed and boxes of decorations also awaiting wrapping.

I love it!

I love Christmas but don't put decorations up until the weekend before. I will start looking for presents around middle of November that way hopefully I will have bought everything but Christmas! I think it must spoil the excitement for small children to have decorations up and Carols being sung too early

For me, Christmas gets spoiled by the early appearance of all thing Christmas. My tree goes up sometime after 7 days before 25th and down asap afterwards, maybe three days.
Thus, it remains a novelty while in place.

ethel I was driving home on Monday evening and turned into a Road not to far away to be greeted by lights twinkling away around the window I thought I was seeing things and could not believe my eyes.
Mine have always gone up for the 15th as thats when is DS1s birthday (we have a few birthdays between 15th-31st) and they come down at the first chance after New Year.

Decorations are up in shops in this part of London for Diwali which I think starts tomorrow.

That's right, Starling - big festival of light!

A gastro pub near by already has a large Santa outside.

Our decs go up about the 15th Dec

Once, in the 70s, when Halloween was over, two young lads knocked on the door and proceeded to sing a Christmas carol. I can't remember which, except that they clearly didn't know it! I told them to come back at the right time, but they never did.

I'm away from home for Christmas, but do put my tree up (a very small one) before I go, because I usually have my sister and BiL for New Year. Therefore the tree and cards stay put until they leave.

I wish it didn't go on for sooooooooooooooo long, it's two days, that's it really, this build up is so over the top. Storms aside, we are still in Autumn and personally I'd like to appreciate the "now" the changing colours of the trees and everything that this time of the year has to offer.

I think I'd appreciate Christmas more if we adopted a slightly more European approach, what we have in Britain is just an excuse or rampant consumerism.

should have typed "for" not or in last sentence.

My DC's Infant school always had a Carol Service on a Wed evening near or on 15/16 Dec we would then come home and decorate the tree.It was a tradition we looked forward to and it was plenty long enough for me.I have seen trees in windows lit up in windows on Nov 1st.

That was a nice idea annsixty.

jbf thank you it was a long time ago but a lovely memory.

I like putting up decorations and adorning the tree on Christmas Eve. Young children are in bed and when they get up in the morning, everything has changed and looks magical. Sometimes I was just too busy – 16–20 people for lunch two days running – and I would do it a couple of days before Christmas.

There is a logic to buying presents earlier in the year. In my case, I bought a number of things during the summer – benefiting from the end-of-summer-sales – because they wouldn't be available in the winter and I had to send them to New Zealand when Christmas is in midsummer. Happily, I no longer have to do that, not least because the postage could cost more than the presents. My daughter starts buying presents for her five children and large extended family quite early so that she can spread the cost. Once again, she can take advantage of sales and special offers with reduced prices.

I think Christmas here starts far too early. There is too much build up and when it arrives I feel it's an anti climax. In The Canary Islands they seem to get things in the shops about 3/4 weeks before Christmas which I prefer. We put our decorations/tree up about a week before and take them down on New Years day. I prefer Easter.

Ps how do I add smilies etc on here? I've tried what they say but don't think it works