Argh people are already smothering their houses in outside christmas decorations

One just up the road from me has got fully decked out and lit up front yard christmas decorations already and it's still a month to go!

I'll be lucky if I even had a tree unless it's a really small one that's easy to pack away.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I agree with your sentiments entirely.

My decorations go up on Christmas Eve or a day or so previously and come down on Twelfth Night (or its day).

I have only a small, artificial tree with some battery-powered lights and a few baubles, and two strings from which to hang the cards. Plus a wreath on the outside of the front door.

The tree goes on the front room window-sill, but though only a few feet from the pavement, shrubs in my little front garden largely hide it from passers-by.

One Christmas I suspended a hurricane-lamp (paraffin wick lamp) above the front door and lit it every night of the dozen nights of the Christmas season - but its effect was largely lost by a street-lamp nearly opposite the house.