When Do Your Holiday Decorations Go Up?
Day after Thanksgiving? Day after Halloween? How soon is too soon to decorate for the holidays and listen to holiday music?
As Michigan shoppers headed to the store for Halloween candy in October, they were met with a now-familiar sight: holiday decorations. Christmas trees, lights, blow-up Menorahs and manger scenes line the aisles already at Home Depot, Target, Walmart and other stores. So when it comes to your holiday decorations and holiday music, how soon do you start? Whether your tree goes up while the jack-o-lanterns are still on the porch; or if you stick to the nothing-until-after-Thanksgiving rule, tell us: When will you decorate for the holidays and start playing holiday music?
Laura Vogel
12:27 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Decorations go up when the weather is reasonably the least miserable between Thanksgiving-ish and mid-December. And they don't get turned on until at least December. But I don't personally choose to play Christmas music ever at home. I have enough of it involuntarily pushed into my ears everywhere else I go. more ›