When do you feel it is appropriate to decorate your home for the holidays?
926832
I think any time after the 1st December is fine. November is too early!\n\nMind you all the shops have been decorated for Christmas since Novermber the 1st. So no wonder people start early.
724772
if shops can sell blue, white, green, brown trees and even silver Christms trees - then why cant you buy a black one --- especially if it goes with your decor.\n\na Christmas tree, in your home, should be whatever colour you want, and decorated as you wish.\n\nthere are no rules that i know of.\n\nmy nan (bless her soul) used to have 2 white trees - one decorated with normal decorations, the other decorated with sweets for kids - \n\nso i say to you "do what you feel is best for you"\ni am sure it will look great, and might even start a trend ...\n\n:-)
905691
I don't think that's weird. You're entitled to do what you want to do. In my family, we celebrate Easter, Halloween and Christmas and birthdays because those are the fun holidays for the kids. As for the rest of the holidays.....we pretty much do the same thing on those days as we do for any other.
419264
to enjoy the holiday.
735953
I agree. You know, it used to be that everything, was special, especially Christmas. Now a days, you see Easter trees and Foth of July lights, I dotn know what to think.\n\nIt makes Christmas less special if you do it too early, and before Thanksgiving is way to early. I think one should deffinatly wait till December. My family usually has ours out late in december, but we get into the spirt as soon as December 1st comes! \n\nEven though Christmas is fun and magical, if you dont wait and you treat the whole winter season like Christmas, it loses its charm.\n\nAs for stores, I think it takes away from the charm, but they have to do it. it is a business and they have to sell the stuff, because they know for the season,they have to stock early.
818459
I have just started a new job, and I will probably have to work Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years...and my parents live out of state. \nWe usually have Thanksgiving dinner together, go out Christmas Eve night to look at Christmas lights, and stay up together to watch the ball drop on tv for New Years. \nI don't think that I will get to do any of those things. (You'd think that since Katrina, employers would know the value of being with family, especially because we couldn't do it last year...but apparently not.)\nOh well...there's always next year, isn't there?\n\nCome to think about it...I cooked Thanksgiving dinner last year for the first time ever, and since I will probably be doing the same this year, maybe I am following a tradition (if the second time makes it a tradition) or starting one of my own.
788110
I traditionally leave everything until the last minute.  However, I'm a college student, so I don't really need to do much in the way of decorating or preparing for family to come, except clean a little bit at my parents' house.  \n\nAs far as finding gifts for people, I've already started looking, though I haven't bought anything yet.  Historically, I've waited until the last week or two before Christmas to find gifts, but I'm trying to change that this year.\n\nSo I guess, in reality, I'm still slacking, and just claiming I'm attempting to actually do something this year :-P
800176
My tree gets covered in hundreds of decorations. We get some new ones each year plus some that I inherited from my tree as a kid and the ones my own kids have made over the years. Keep them spaced and even and you'll be fine. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas, remembering that it's the spirit of the season, sharing and giving, not just of gifts but of ourselves.It's not about stressing over having everything perfect.
933474
The smells are the best for me.  It seems like a home really smells like a home at Christmas time.  The smell of baking and the smell of the trees and pomades bring back comfy feelings of home.
879299
Spend as much time as possible with your family and add to your store of good memories.\nWhen the tree is coming down, ask your mom if you can have a few special ornaments to put on your own tree next year.  Begin to build your own 'family tradition ornament collection'.\nAlso, give each family member an engraved ornament this year with a special message just for them from you.
714058
If you like white, and are trimming your house in white, then the white reindeer in the front yard would look lovely, as would a white wreath on the door. Cool, elegant and classy. \nMe? I prefer the jumbled colored lights and I don't care if they wink and blink in synch or not. It reminds me of when the kids were small and 'helped' to trim the tree. They made decorations in sunday school, and in elementary school, which looked godawful, but they were very proud of them, so they went on the tree and were saved for the next year, when they joined the collection of things that had to be part of our Chrirstmas tree. \nHowever, it has lovely memories, and I guess I'm neither classy, cool, nor elegant, because to me, that's what Christmas is all about. If I want to see beautifully decorated trees, I'll go to the mall or the garden shop, where they have the '12 bays of Christmas' and each bay contains a differently themed tree. \n\nAnd a Happy Hogmanay to you too!
917970
think its abit early... \n\nbut if your daughters young.. it makes them look forward to it more so may be nice... \n\nsaw a christmas tree in the pub last night.... \n\nplus its only 50 days away!!.. whooo
856178
I can give you a job up here if you want 1 you can come decorate my living room before christmas,ive done that much decorating in the past i cant be bothered do anymore,lol
966589
I'm to excited to wait til DEC 12, but i will wait til DEC 1, but i keep buying new stuff to put on the tree .. it helps me not to put it up sooner. ...have a merry Christmas & wonderful new year.
929695
I could never get a good answer for this either, especially since a lot of people dress up in white for Christmas and New Year's eve,  even if they do call it 'winter white.'  I come to my own decision that it's ok to wear white  whenever, if that's what you want to do.
756017
I want to do it this weekend.  We usually put up all of the decorations the week of Thanksgiving.  I takes about a week to do both the inside and outside decorations. But, this year I've had to put my hubby in the hospital a couple of times here recently and I am so thankful to have him home that I want to start celebrating early!
954993
I live in the mountains so we get alot of snow and I see people decorate their house just like anyone else, with lights and all kinds of things. I think it will be ok. It's the first year I'm decorating in the snow and I'm putting lights up, just make sure they say weather resistant or something similar on them.\n\nOh sorry! I misunderstood your question! I'm putting mine up before the snows come! That would be better. If it's already snowed where you live then I don't know!! Becareful!