When does Christmas begin?

[Jakub324]

I went into town today. Tunbridge Wells seems to think the festive season is here already, but we (my family) don't prepare any decorations until Christmas Eve, partly so they don't get boring and partly because nobody can be arsed to get them down from the loft. Tesco does it way too early - they were selling wrapping paper and Christmassie-patterned cans of coke in September.
What do you think?

 

[Soviet Steve]

I think we should get through halloween first.

 

[Palademon]

Well, wrapping paper is probably good to have around this time.
Everything else...meh.

The twelve days of Christmas is what gets me...

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

25th of December.
That is when Christmas starts.
Christmas also ends on the 26th of December.
Never get confused, because this is the right answer.

 

[AnarchistFish]

1st December is when it really kicks off I think

 

[Scarim Coral]

To me there are a few things when Christmas begin-
When the town center put up decoration and so does the shops.
December 1st
And when we put up the christmas tree and decoration in the house.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Shouldn't have decorations out til 1st Of December in my opinion. In my house we put the tree up on the 12th 'cause then its 12 days till Christmas Eve and it goes down on the Epiphany which is usually 6th Of January.

 

[Toriver]

To me, the Christmas season runs from "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving) to January 1st. My family usually puts up the tree and decorates in the beginning of December and leaves them up until the first weekend after New Year's. TBH, I get annoyed if I see decorations/lights/Christmas trees or hear Christmas carols before Thanksgiving. So the Christmas season has just started for me!

 

[WarDialler]

12 days is too much, for me Christmas is three Days, Eve, Day and Boxing Day. But in Our house we generally put up the decs the first weekend in December or something. I dunno, in an age where we're judged on our carbon footprints why do we decorate the outside of our houses with lights and proceed to let them burn for a month and a half?

Please note, I'm not a scrooge or a miser, I just think that doing some things for reason of 'Tradition' is the kind of thinking that will drive us back into the Oceans rather than into the Stars.