Tis the season, always the real thing!

[baloki]

So, when do you consider Christmas to have started and why? Personally December the first, at the beginning of advent, however the following advert used to be the secondary indicator if I forgot what date it was, pity it doesn't run anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoDUC9M0Sg

[Extreme-Speed]

I consider Christmas to start when it is Christmas Day.

[baloki]

I consider Christmas to start when it is Christmas Day.

So you only start getting into the Christmassy mood then ?

[Angstwolf]

Hmm, it's pretty much the first of December for me as well, though I don't exactly have a set date. It's pretty much when I first hear a Christmas song.

[KJ Fellie]

Hmm, it's pretty much the first of December for me as well, though I don't exactly have a set date. It's pretty much when I first hear a Christmas song.

I've heard those before Halloween. They even start putting up Christmas decorations before Halloween.
Christmas Mania starts way too early for me. I'd say the real feeling starts for me a week or two into December, though I have to wear the stupid Santa hat starting Dec. 1st.

[BladeRaptor]

For me, I consider the start of the Christmas season to be the annual running of the obsessed shoppers, better known as Black Friday. My activites for that day usually consist of sitting at home and watching the hilarity ensue on the news from the comfort of my living room couch. But it's only a little while after, once the initial craziness subsides, that I really start getting into the Christmas mood.

[Richard K Niner]

I guess that, for me, it starts when people start talking about Black Friday; usually it's the weekend leading up to US Thanksgiving. (I manage to ignore it before that weekend, at least.)

[klimt]

the last Friday before.

[Muninn]

For me Christmas starts at 28 seconds past 09:42 on 11 December.

[Holley]

For me, its the first day I have off work ... it varies but the warm fuzzy feeling I have from staying in bed for 2 more hours remains the same

[likeafox]

According to nearby department and grocery stores, Christmas starts the day after Halloween. But it's probably Dec. 1st for me too, or shortly after. The last few have seemed less Christmasy that Christmases past. But so have all holidays lost their edge. It could just be that I'm not a little kid anymore.

[SotiCoto]

Speaking as someone who doesn't do Christmas at all... never.

But then I'd say if they must have it then it could just be the week leading up to December 25th...
The way the shops work you'd think it was christmas for half the year though.

[Doc Sigma]

As soon as I'm done eating Thanksgiving dinner.

[Holyman83]

We put the tree up on Thanksgiving weekend.

[Foxhound]

Dec. 1st. But I actually really start getting in the mood about a week or two beforehand.