am I being unreasonable thinking its too early for decorations

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.

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.

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

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 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 )

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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