Christmas lights

i got the tree and decs down at the weekend but they prob won't up until december.

[Paul the 6th]

missus keeps asking "When are we putting our tree up?" so i say "How about 1st december?" then she says no its too early. What teh feck? if exactly 25 days (which is approximately 3 weeks and 4 days before xmas day) is "too early" for xmas decorations, then the supermarkets must be absolutely mental

What? put up Christmas lights and increase global warming,-------think not my dears

[Jayneflakes]

As a non Christian I find this custom most strange.

After all, why would I welcome any form of good will and cheering spirit into my home during the cold bleak winter months?

Actually the best Christmas I ever had was on a mountain, tucked up in my sleeping bag with a couple of climbing friends. OK, we only had risotto for Christmas Dinner and some chocolate, but the people I was with and the surroundings made that my best one so far. You don't need lights, just a very warm sleeping bag when it is -20 degrees celcius and you have to dig a hole in frozen ground just to poo in!

Theres a few houses near mine that are lit already.

a lady from work helped her daughter set the xmas tree up at the begining of november !

absolute madness in my opinion

Our street seem to be in competition, they'll probably go up sometime before the end of november. Hideous. And all the more ridiculous- the house next door have everything under the sun inflated and lit up outside their house, but we hear them regularly telling their kids to eff off..

I have my Bah Humbug tshirt at the ready.

There is a counsel estate near where i live where about 10 houses have a competition to see who can be the most outrageous (think national lampoons Christmas vacation). it looks like a row of slot machines from a distance but there is literally a line of traffic driving into and out of the estate to have a good laugh at them. NIE must be rubbing their hands with joy!!!

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

As a non Christian I find this custom most strange.

After all, why would I welcome any form of good will and cheering spirit into my home during the cold bleak winter months?

if we celebrated xmas any other time, say in the summer, i think the big fella upstairs would begin to find the custom very strange.

Cough! ..... Wire cutters...... Cough!

Originally Posted by neillfergie

There is a counsel estate near where i live where about 10 houses have a competition to see who can be the most outrageous (think national lampoons Christmas vacation). it looks like a row of slot machines from a distance but there is literally a line of traffic driving into and out of the estate to have a good laugh at them. NIE must be rubbing their hands with joy!!!

by eck lad, thats a fancy council estate.