Haven't started yet, I don't even know what i want to do, but one thing is certain, am definitely going to have cakes.

I erected my tiny tree. My main tree will go up on the 14th. It's usually up by now but the 14th would have been my mother's 90th birthday. My Christmas shopping is already done.

@eLdavis . There is still a month to go. You have a clarity about having cakes and that can be seen as a good start. I am sure that slowly many more things might pop up.
@MamaFrankie . That's a good start. You have already made a noticeable progress there with Christmas preparation. I am sure that the festive mood has already set in at your end. You choose your mom's 90th birthday as the day to put up your main tree. That is pretty emotional.

I have started making some savings for Christmas. My plan is to travel away from my city this Christmas to go enjoy carnival in the next city. That would require a lot of money to make happen. That's why I have already started saving for it.

You know, @arunima25. We have a different culture; here we don't celebrate Christmas much. But still I can see an excitement in the people for Christmas; they have started saving money to buy gifts for their family and friends.

@Shortie . I know loosing a parent can leave a void that is not easy to fill. The meaning of celebration too changes with such loss. And with kids growing, they outgrow certain things that excites them as kids. But as parents we always want the same excited kids for all our festival celebrations. It's tough for us to grow with them. Haha!
@King Belieal . That sounds exciting! I am sure that you will have enough savings to make it happen. We too are going out for a week for family vacation during Christmas week. It's a long due family vacation and fortunately this time we would be able to make it as four of us have holidays together .
@Sanjeev . That is understandable and relatable. Being a Hindu household, we never celebrated it either. But then my girls got few Christian friends and they wanted tree and gifts. So, we had that as Christmas ritual for all these years. Now, they are grown up and outgrown the excitement. Last year, elder one was not here as she got her semester break in mid January. Younger one was not excited and nothing happened. This year, elder one is coming in mid Dec. Let's see what happens. Anyways, we are going to Goa for a family vacation during Christmas week.

I'll admit I'm bad about getting prepared for Christmas early, I usually wait until the last minute to do my shopping lol. So I am definitely not ready for Christmas yet, plus lots of things go on sale here in the states after Thanksgiving so I'll probably wait until then to get ready. We will be putting our Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving this year though, we got a new tree this year.

I haven't started yet and to be honest we don't really decorate a whole bunch anymore. We will put up the tree most years, but some years didn't even bother. I'm sure this year we'll put the tree up sometime in December. I don't recall ever putting it up this early, but I could be wrong. Christmas still rocks, but it's not what it used to be. Maybe that's because I'm an adult and it doesn't feel the same anymore. idk. We still celebrate it, so that's all that matters in my book.

At home it's my elder sister who prefers everything during Christmas like installing Christmas tree, Feung Shui, decors and a huge lantern to be hanged in our balcony. It's estimated that by December 1 , everything will be accomplished. I am the one buying a huge Christmas tree and its decors series lights and bells. The feeling is jumpy jumpy.

I’ve not started thinking about it and I don't want to go through the stress of last-minute shopping because prices always jump up. I’m still looking for Christmas lights that is very durable, unlike the one I bought last year, it spoiled after one week. To be honest, I don't usually feel this season until I start hearing those old Boney M songs and neighbours frying chicken everywhere. And once I started seeing harmattan and my lips start to crack a little, that’s when I knew Christmas was just around the corner. .

I'm already finished with my Christmas shopping. I always start my Christmas shopping when the kiddos start going back to school (which is about mid-August here where I live) and I'm usually finished with my Christmas shopping by Halloween. I already have to work out in the Christmas rush......I don't want to have to get back out in it on my two days off each week.