Today is going to get heated. We are going to talk about it. Decorating for Christmas in November. It appears that people have very strong feelings about decorating for Christmas in November, or more specifically, before Thanksgiving. I also have very strong thoughts on this.
I respect and can understand both sides. Honestly, I can.
However, let me be clear. I am heavily shaded on one side of this discussion.
I decorate for Christmas in early November.
I said it. I decorate early. I honestly started planning and dreaming of decorating for Christmas in September, but I’m not a weirdo. I hold off and don’t say much until this week of October. Y’all- I am about to burst.
Don’t get me wrong, I love fall. I love my fall decor. I love pumpkins. Most of all, I love Thanksgiving. I firmly believe that decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving takes nothing away from Thanksgiving.
I think this classic Christmas song lyric sums it up perfectly: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. You can have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Thanksgiving.
Today, I will share three reasons why I love and need to decorate for Christmas in early November. I encourage you to share your pros or cons about decorating early for Christmas in a respectful way in the comments. I would love to hear it.
1. Decorating for Christmas is not an easy task!
It basically takes a whole day of cleaning and then another whole day decorating. In my book, that is a lot of effort and time. I feel I need to be able and should be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor for more than just 20 days. Decorating in the first week of November means I get an extra three weeks to enjoy my beautiful Christmas decor in my house. That is a huge pro in my book.
I cannot begin to tell you how much joy it brings when I’m sitting in my chair doing my Bible study early in the morning, there’s no sound in the house, and the only thing is my Bible and a twinkling Christmas tree. It is so peaceful, so beautiful, and so calming. I have goosebumps just thinking about it.
2. The whole family wants to start early!
This reason alone is worth decorating a couple of weeks early. Maybe the apples don’t fall far from the tree, but my kids (and Martin) absolutely love Christmas, Christmas time, Christmas decorations, and Christmas music. I think with daylight savings in November, our seasonal depression can creep in at times, and Christmas decorations just make being inside better.
3. Christmas is kind of a big deal.
Christmas celebrates the birthday of Jesus. If you have been a Kari Miller Blog reader for some time you know, at least I hope you know, how important my faith is. Christmas is such a beautiful time to celebrate Jesus and to instill that praise-giving spirit in my kids about why we celebrate Christmas; why it is such an enormous, essential part of our faith. Jesus came into the world, our broken world, and saved us. He changed everything. We can’t earn our salvation, and we don’t have to by the grace of God. Jesus came and paid that price for us, and if there is anyone worth celebrating for an extra couple of weeks, it’s Jesus. Now I’m not saying that if you don’t decorate before Thanksgiving, you aren’t celebrating Jesus. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that was a huge part of why I love to decorate early.
There you have it, friends. I love Christmas and I’m not afraid to say it. I’m ready to fill the car with Christmas music, fill the house with Christmas candles, turn on all the twinkly lights, and enjoy the season.
And I promise, whichever side of the Christmas decorating spectrum you land on, I still love you and I’m so thankful that you’re here. I hope you can embrace my buddy the elf personality for the next two months, and it’s OK to talk about me and my crazy early decorating. Just make sure you keep coming back to Kari Miller Blog.
Don’t be shy, leave a comment on your status of decorating for Christmas. I need to know, and I want to know. In the meantime… Happy Halloween, happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.
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I heard Christmas music coming from Lucy’s room over the weekend while she was decorating her personal Christmas tree in her room! We shall see when her Christmas joy spreads through the rest of the house! 🫶
I love that girl!! ‘Tis the season!!
I’ll be decorating the first full weekend of November. I CANNOT wait! Deck the halls with all the things!
LET’S GOOOOOOOOO
We decorate for Christmas on the last weekend in November, it’s nothing to do with Thanksgiving as we don’t celebrate. (I’m in England). My dad’s partner will put her tree up sometime over the next week or so, she is really crazy about Christmas! It is a real mood booster seeing the tree and all the decorations up.
I typically wait until about mid-November to put up my Christmas decor, but I ‘ve been thinking about changing that this year. The month of December usually gets so busy, I like to have it up early so that I can enjoy it. I’ve never thought about putting it up this weekend until the past few days. We will see if I hold out or not! 🙂
I love Christmas too!! I’m all for early! Focusing on Jesus and celebrating his birth can’t come soon enough!!