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With Christmas decorations and chocolates appearing on shop shelves as early as August, just how soon is too soon to start thinking about the festive season? Some people like to get organised well in advance, while others prefer to wait until December is just around the corner. Leeds locals reveal when they feel Christmas planning should begin, what they make of the early festive displays and whether they’ve already started their Christmas shopping.

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00:00Christmas, you can never celebrate too early. I love Christmas.
00:03No, definitely the 2nd of January. Christmas preparations start again.
00:06Like, they never come down. They should always be up.
00:08I think Christmas is like the best thing.
00:10You can always see the lights in Leeds if they don't come down.
00:12At work, we do, we've got a lot of Christmas music on.
00:16Yeah. So, you know, we all just get to listen.
00:19We all hop around singing and everything.
00:21No, I love it.
00:22I love going under the lights and everything like that
00:24and walking through Town Square and everything with all the lights up.
00:27That's really fun to see.
00:28It's coming about earlier and earlier every year.
00:30Well, we do, we say that, but 10 years ago, it was still August really, wasn't it?
00:34Personally, I feel like August is still summer
00:36and we should maybe be reining it in a little bit, to be honest.
00:39I feel like a reasonable time to start celebrating is probably early, mid-November.
00:44But there's never an early enough time to start getting Christmas presents and stuff right.
00:49I'm always like three days before Christmas, I'm racing around to get everything right.
00:53I've seen some shops do it like straight after Halloween.
00:56I think their most appropriate time would be midway through November.
00:59So you've got a month to prepare, not like in September.
01:02I don't think it should really start till December.
01:05But I work in clothing retail, so obviously we get our party clothes in,
01:10but that's, you know, that's slightly different because people are buying for New Year as well
01:14and sort of office parties.
01:16But yeah, far too early.
01:18Wait, at least wait till after Guy Fawkes.
01:21Even just all the fairs and everything.
01:23It's just a really good time to like bring your family together and have like a great Christmas.
01:27And I think buying for people is really fun.
01:28Like it just makes me really happy.

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