Christmas Countdown

We start the countdown in the beginning of December. Although the stores already have Christmas themed decorations and gifts from October and are decorated in November, most people start the countdown on the first of December, when the month of Advent begins. It seems enough to keep the excitement until Christmas, but at least in my country waiting longer would make it boring I think. Btu I know people who start it earlier, and who keep the Christmas tree till Easter.

At home, we start decorating come October. We do not have that big christmas tree though, just a standard 4 feet high and some christmas lights hanging outside the house. So at the moment, no christmas decorations are hanging in our house. Maybe next month.

Oh yeah.. its already Christmas month! hehe Well i can feel that spirit already in our workplace because our office now boasts of a very tall christmas tree, i guess about 2 floors in length! :D At our home, we have't really started anything with the decors yet. or probably we are not the type that puts up decorations haha =) Im excited for the Christmas season. It was quite a very sad one for me last year. I sure hope it is going to be lovely this time around for me, and i am hopeful. :D

It's true that Philippines have the longest Christmas celebrations and i think its due to the natural happy mood of the people that you can even smiling faces in the midst of calamities. When my children were still kids we already have fully decorated Christmas tree by October as they love this. But we stopped having one their college years, Last year however my daughter said she missed our Christmas tree when they're still kids hence we had one completely decorated by end of September and this year we're planning to have it by October as we still need to buy additional decors to replace at least the 10% that don't look nice already out of the ones we used last year that we only kept.

Yeah there are some house who have Christmas decors in their houses like one of our neighbors who has lights in their terrace. No plans to put up the Christmas tree but just plan to clean it up. But still Christmas spirit is all over and could really feel now.

when my mom was still alive we use to put christmas decorations 3rd week of September. She is always excited about it. But now that she's gone I am too lazy to do it again. Last year was the saddest Christmas for me because she's not with us anymore. I don't hate Christmas I will never will it is just I can't celebrate it anymore that way I used to do it.

Well it is indeed infectious to feel the "ber" months since you can hear from almost all the malls the Xmas songs being played already. I think that would stop for a while when Nov. 1 comes then after that it will resume back until it reaches early January next year were we officially end our Xmas celebration. So far we just have talked about it but we never tried to put in anything as of yet since we feel it is too early to start decorating.

Hi, The disadvantage of putting up Christmas decor early is that it gets jaded overtime and when December comes its novelty has worn off. My wife used to decorate as early as this month but this time around, she has postponed the decorations until December. It also coincided with our annual town fiesta in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December) so the whole town gets a dress up like any other time of the year, fiesta and Christmas decorations all in one.

Oh yes, Filipinos are that excited of Christmas indeed. I can already hear Christmas songs being played on radios and ABS CBN is drum beating Christmas. However, at home we will be putting up Christmas decors maybe after the Halloween.

When i was younger, i start decorating as early as september and later as december... Sometimes, i feel tired having too much decorations on, so i just put something like lanterns and a christmas tree...right now seems like i feel lazy putting decorations... But i am excited to move to a new house perhaps i could have few decorations in it... But i cannot put gifts under a tree for sure my daughter would love to enwrapped it... But i am so excoted for christmas to come...

The "ber' months start the Christmas spirit and it probably lasts until the end of the "ry" months... So half the year would be filled with something about Christmas, wouldn't that be nice?

Christmas is one special occasion for us Pinoys. It is the time we spend again with our family, a time of gathering and reunion. In terms of decorating the house, we put them up on December. I guess we just want to feel December as the most special month, such that only this month we start arranging our Christmas Trees and decors. However I wish we all bear in mind the spiritual meaning of this precious time and not just depend our reason on material gifts we receive.

When I was a kid, I enjoyed helping my mother decorating our christmas tree, but for now, I just watch them do it. I think the best time to decorate for Christmas is December, specially in our place where a lot of smokes and dust is coming to your home due to big trucks and vans that ply in our street. Putting up Christmas light this early is also a waste of money because of high electric bill.

When i was still in college, around the last week of october i start to check the christmas lights. I clean them and change the busted bulbs. After all saints day, i start putting them outside the house.then i'll set up the old christmas tree that we use since i was 12. It was fun. Every year we buy some new balls and other stuff to hang in our tree. So every year, there is somethingnew. But we still keep the old ones. This year, i am so excited because i have my own family now and this is our first year in our own home. My 3 year old is very excited when i tell him about my plan of putting the christmas tree and him helping me. He really enjoys being of help to us and he feels proud after. Maybe, we'll stick to after all saints day christmas decorating. It'll be fun!