Christmas decorations have been in the shops for ages, but many traditions say they the tree and decorations shouldn’t be out until December.
Putting up decorations too early takes away some of the magic of Christmas, I feel. They are there so long they have less impact when Santa arrives – they become part of the background.
I also think it is confusing for young children – they see decorations and trees and Santas so assume it is Christmas tomorrow – how hard it is to explain “no, Santa isn’t coming for another 2 or 3 months yet”. Frustrating for parents, too.
When do you put up a tree at home? Do you decorate the rest of the house as well?
Mum says we can put decorations up on 1 December, but cos the house was messy yesterday we had to tidy up ferst.
We always do it togther and mum took lots of photos.
We usually put the tree up the first weekend of December. This year my boys are excited because they got to put up 2 trees – one upstairs & one downstairs.