Well, there are fewer days between Thanksgiving and December 25 this year.  If one wants to find correlation between anything, there is that possibility.   As far as big pictures, I tend to think about different things.  

No... we have no snow in Charlotte, but my neighbors who decorate early each year have their lights up early again this year.

No. I think people like the pomp that goes with the Christmas Season AND Retailers want to get into our wallets earlier and earlier

No!

Our early snow served as a wake-up call to get those lights up Peter Mohylsky . Thank goodness we have had many warm days since that 1st snowfall and all those who were going to put up lights got them up now.

No, I think it's because it's such a major project decorating your home, people want more than 30 days before they have to put all of it back in storage.

Is it early Christmas lights or late Thanksgiving?

No, some have different priorities.

As long as there are two humans on Earth there will be a difference of opinion on what actually causes climate change!

Not really. This coming weekend is the traditional emergence of those Chrismas lights!

I do not, Peter Mohylsky 

I don't think so Peter. 

No, about the same!

NO, people are just nuts & rude at the same time. If it is one thing that the world needs is for people to slow down for one day & think about what they are thankful for. They won't do it.

No. 

The Griswall’s house

I think it is the retailers pushing it earlier and earlier.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I did not see any changes.

My Christmas lights will not be emerging early.

Not really.  It is when it works with a homeowner's schedule.  I have neighbors who put up their lights the same time every year regardless of the weather.

Peter,

I dislike even considering all the correlations and possibilites, there are better things for me to think about.  A

Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year..... 

I don't think it has anything to do with snow.  People seem to want to skip Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas.  Then the day after the decorations are down.  Our OLD ways were put them up just before Christmas we left them up until after New Year.  Cahnge of the times.

I don't believe there is, I would think it is just that people get anxious to celebrate Christmas!

Nope.

It is difficult to get the holiday decor up and off and up and off and up and off . . .  Thanksgiving Harvest in early Oct.  Then Halloween.  A break for Remembrance Day then the Christmas stuff before the freezing weather makes it near impossible to be outside!  When is the correct time did you say?

I think it's an insideous plot by NAR to control the world.  Ummm... I mean  "maybe they want to get them up before it gets too cold/windy/rainy/snowy/etc. out?"

I think the correlation is tied to what stores do.

Peter,

I think the early snow and the few warm days we have after each one prompts people in our area to get their lights up so they aren’t trying to do it when there are no warm days left.

The dinosaurs were puzzled with this too over the 100 million years they roamed the earth. They never saw coming their end times but didn't like the volcanoes, hot & cold weather, pollution & shifting earth either....

Not at all. It is primarily driven by the greedy retailers trying to get the jump on the competition

I don't know, Peter.

Retail always starts early.

Personally, I've been out stringing lights this week because it's been beautiful out. It's mostly prepping, I won't turn anything on til after Thanksgiving. 

Maybe. Or retailers are trying to hit their numbers sooner.

Could be. We put our tree and lights up after Thanksgiving. I am feeling the Christmas joy and wish it was up already. I also think it could be because Thanksgiving is later this year.

getting cold in CA. I still see men wearing shorts shivering.

Early emergence of Christmas lighting and decor is driven by the low cost products from a country that does not respect people of any faith.

It is somewhat ironic that most HOBBY LOBBY products, especially holiday decor, come from China.

Big picture global warming? Those California tree hugger who were the driving force behind the wild fires, have seen the result of their ban on plastic single use grocery bags. Citizens are buying MORE bags and the double problem of more plastic and increased global warming from paper manufacturing.  BUILD THAT WALL before the fruits and nuts escape.

The unfortunate part of the highly efficient LED lights is that folks went the opposite direction and are installing two /tree times the lighting , 5 times more TV, and power leeches in most wall receptacles, much more than normally used. Total power consumption went the wrong way.

Very similar to the pattern seen in the ban on single use plastic bags;.....squeeze the balloon only to see it pop out somewhere else. Human nature is hard to change.

I had not put much thought into that, sorry.

Since we don't get snowed on here, I cannot answer.

Our Christmas lights go up after Thanksgiving and are not weather related.

No snow yet on Maui.