Is November 1st too soon to turn on the Christmas lights? 

Most people have barely had time to take down their spooky Halloween decorations but others are already starting to feel festive.

Speaking to Lunchtime Live, listener Anne Marie said she does not even wait for November.

“Would you be shocked if I told you I turned on Christmas last night?” she said.

“It’s only one decoration but it has ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ [on it].

“So, yes, I turned on Christmas.”

Last month, Anne Marie began to do her Christmas shopping and she always puts up four trees - one in her kitchen, one in the living room, another in her office and the final one in her boys’ rooms.

It is a commitment to Christmas that is not shared by her husband and she would much rather he put them up closer to Christmas Day itself.

“You know the way you go shopping for shoes and clothes and you sneak them in without the husband knowing?” she said.

“I’m going to sneak in a Santa Claus and suddenly it’ll appear in a room and he’ll not notice them and suddenly he goes, ‘What’s that there?’”

'It brings this joy'

Anne Marie said Christmas gives her a “lovely feeling” every year and it is something her children enjoy as well.

“I think this it brings this joy, this preparation,” she said.

“I have two boys, they love it as well and this Saturday we’re going to start Christmas movie nights.

“Each Saturday we pick a Christmas movie, hot chocolate and settle down.

“We’ve eight to 10 Christmas movies all planned out.”

Certainly Anne Marie is not alone in her enthusiasm for Christmas with one shop owner telling Lunchtime Live in mid-October they had "sold out of a lot of our Christmas stuff already".

Main image: A person decorating their Christmas tree. Picture by: Cultura Creative RF / Alamy