I am another that peaks too early when it comes to christmas. Our tree goes up when Santa comes to town for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent !! That happens around the first/2nd weekend in November. It is a tradition for a lot of Adelaide families for the tree to go up that day. But by the time Christmas rolls around the tree has been up for around 7 weeks and I am sick of looking at it, so it is usually pulled down on Dec 27th.

It also doesn't help that is is 8ft tall and really wide, so it has to sit in the kids play area. Last year I was in Melbourne for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent. When I spoke to mum (who was baby sitting my kids back in Adelaide) later that day, I asked her if she can put my tree up LOL. She didn't oblige.

Love