Too Soon?

Howdy, y'all.

I do not have a recipe today. (Sorry.) I do have a few very important questions to ask, though:

Question #1: How early is too early to put up your Christmas tree?

Hubby and I decided to get our Christmas tree early this year. It's our first Christmas as a married couple in our own apartment, so we were excited to pick out the tree. I was feeling festive, anyway. How can I not, when this is what it looks like outside my window at work?

November? Pssh.

We can't have real trees in our apartment and the fake tree that I loved was well over $130. (Blegh.) As much as I wanted to get a really nice fake tree to make up that we couldn't get a real tree like Hubby wanted,  I couldn't bring myself to spend that much.

So! We bought a plain little 6-foot tree at Walmart for $20. In a way, it kind of fits our simple apartment better, too. We're considering going back for the 75% off+ sale after Christmas to get that nicer fake tree. We'll see!

That's all fine. But when we got home, we couldn't not break out our new tree. So we did. About two weeks before Thanksgiving.

Is that too early?

I kind of thought it was a tad too early, but my family usually puts up their tree the day after Thanksgiving so it wasn't too early. They're a fake-tree family, too, FYI.

Which leads me to Question #2: Fake tree or real tree?

Oh, and we also got a little penguin ornament that I found misplaced on a shelf elsewhere in the store, as our first ornament to go on our tree. It was $0.97 so I didn't feel bad getting something a little extra in our trip.

And a star for the top, because I'm pretty sure the $20 tree could not handle a full-weight angel.

#3 Angel or star (or something else?) for the top of your tree?

And 2 Christmas CDs to listen to while we were decorating.

Question #4: Does anybody else know who Bing Crosby is? Hubby had never heard of him. He was one of the main voices of my Christmases as a kid. In Hubby's defense, he recognized a couple of Bing Crosby's songs as the versions of classic carols that he'd grown up with also.

This weekend or next week we will add the rest of the ornaments to our tree, too. ...Or maybe tonight. We'll see!

Hopefully more recipe posts again soon. It is about to be the most food-centric holiday of the year, after all!