lol.. I'm with ya.

I don't start until about two weeks or so before Halloween.

I would wait til at least summer is over, which is officially around Sept 20 or 21

My DD is going to help me decorate for Fall! We are planning on September 24 or 25 - the first weekend after Fall starts.

Yuck, I hate fall colors, so I don't ever want to see any! LOL We don't really have fall in Florida, but there are so many people here from up north that they insist on putting pumpkins and dried corn everywhere, and wearing sweaters and boots when it's 90 degrees outside.

Donna

The second I feel any kind of fall chill in the air. Autumn is my favorite season, by far, and I really push its getting here.

Normally, it's so hot through the end of October that I barely have time to put out any autumn decor before it's time to decorate for Christmas. This year has been abnormally cool, so I've already changed the front door wreath and started going through the tote with autumn decor. I've switched out the dishes and the bedding. I've probably jinxed us into have a heat wave...ha.

I decorate for Fall right after Labor day. Most of the year I have cream, gray blues, and greens. For fall, I switch those out with a little more red and harvest orange to warm things up. Then, mostly reds, creams, and touches of green over the Holidays. This gives me about 8 months of the cooler tones, and 4 months of WARMTH. I think I'm going to go crank up the A/C and make some hot cocoa on the stove now :)

Lol@chocolatesnap.

Well, I put the fall wreath up after Christmas last year since the door looked so bare. It's still there, so I am already ahead on fall decorating. The rest goes up in October. I don't do much, just a pumpkin and mums.

I brought out my scarecrow and metal corn for the front garden last Friday. I took the barn stars down and put up quilt squares on DH's shop....that is all until October when I put out the lighted pumpkin patch.

Mums will wilt if the temp is above 65 and it's WAY above that here! Even the stores selling them are watering them multiple times daily. My fall decorating consists of a lovely Della Robbia wreath that I do not put out until the day after Halloween. It was quite expensive and I don't want it harmed by "tricksters". It stays up until the First Sunday in Advent when my Christmas wreath goes up. That states up until Valentines Day. I'm then wreathless.

The day after Labor Day I change out my front wreath and start thinking about mums: Yesterday I jerked out some worn-out geraniums from the front porch pots and replaced them with bronze and white mums.

Starting to think about pumpkins now . . . . I will probably get some this weekend. So what if they rot by the end of September? I will throw them out and go get some fresh ones.

We have traditionally bought pumpkins at the same time we go apple picking, which usually is somewhere around the end of Sept./early Oct. That is the extent of my fall decorating -- a few pumpkins on the front walk. I might have to break down and buy a mum or two for the front steps because my summer plants look pretty bad right now.

I wonder how this dry summer will impact our apple picking options in New England this fall!

I don't do any seasonal/holiday decorating save for fresh flowers in season, a natural Christmas wreath on the front door about mid-December, and maybe a pumpkin on the porch a week before Halloween, maybe carved and maybe not. We haven't had a tree for about 18 years. I got sick of unpacking things, then packing them back up. When we moved, I dumped everything but one box of Xmas decorations that have sentimental or family meaning. Don't know when/if I'll get them out again.

I am sure I am not the one non-decorator around!

I don't decorate for any season except for a Christmas tree and simple wreath on the front door. I will enjoy watching you guys do your thing.

ETA: Sushipup!!! Me either.

I don't *do* fall decorating, but it just so happens I visit my bff in the midwest every year, and get to help her decorate her historic home. She has an iron fence completely around the property, but we'll just do the front portion with garlands of leaves or whatever she decides. The huge wraparound porch will also get the works, from planters to hanging plants. The ferns will come down and the mums will go up. The wicker furniture will go to the basement, and the smaller iron pieces will be brought out. I really enjoy the couple of days we spend redoing the outside of the house.

I actually suggested not doing a Christmas tree last year because DH had a neck injury and I wasn't sure we could even get a tree into our house, and my family was horrified. We managed to get the tree and decorate it with minimal DH involvement. Maybe when the kids all move out someday, I can quit the tree. Our house is not large so it always involves moving furniture around, the kids are young enough to WANT a tree but not to get excited about helping to decorate it any more, and more and more I feel like it's just a big PITA. And I am not scrooge-ish, really I'm not!

Usually we add Mums, at least, when the trees start turning colour, usually by mid-September. By early October we add pumpkins and gourds, in time for Canadian Thanksgiving. While the rest of the garden is fading already, the roses really burst in late summer and fall and it's nice to have the colour. I don't store any seasonal decorations other than for Christmas.

Here in the UK we do things in a much smaller way than you guys.....sadly :(

DH and I love Halloween and Autumn though and we do love to make an effort with decorating the house even though it's just the two of us these days! 1st September I put up a faux mini apple wreath. This gets replaced by a Halloween one about a week before 31st October, along with pumpkins etc. Today DH stopped off at a Home Sense (our version of Home Goods, I think) and said the Halloween stuff was out. He didn't buy anything though.

Our Halloween decs only stay up till just after bonfire night (5th November), then nothing till we decorate for Christmas about 16th December. DH likes to put up at least two trees, but I'm trying to get it down to one. After new year we have no wreath again till Easter, but as soon as that comes down I have a choice of a mini wreath in spring colours or a faux lavender one.

Actually, reading this back it doesn't sound like such a smaller way after all, lol!

Ugh, raphaell. As an American, I long for smaller! But I suppose that's a whole other topic!

We don't really have fall in Florida, but there are so many people here from up north that they insist on putting pumpkins and dried corn everywhere, and wearing sweaters and boots when it's 90 degrees outside.

That's odd.....in that I am from "up north" and think it is ridiculously absurd to see "fall" decorating...and yet, it is not the people from "up north" who push this.

I also see the Ugh boots and heavy sweaters/rolled turtlenecks/ at back to school wear for the teens and preteens...it seems to be for a want of a fashion change of season.

Teens are fashion conscious.....and teens are the same everywhere. I understand this much more than the outdoor decorating.

As to the outdoor decorating, It is the ridiculous Florida natives that do this.

In my experience, the many, many northerners in my neighborhood just snigger at these ridiculous "Fall" displays.

I actually miss Fall weather wise...a true Fall and a true Spring are heaven on earth.

I kind of just go more neutral, put away the summer and don't bring out fall, until October. When the kids were smaller I'd do a back-to-school thing with sunflowers and rulers, kind of a farm thing that would morph into harvest.

I just do a little bit at a time -- pumpkins for a bowl on the dining room table; mums in the back garden; bittersweet and Chinese lanterns in a vase and the bittersweet wreath on the front door. And then my big pumpkins. But the biggest "decorating" for fall is bringing in all the house plants! That's what makes my house looks fall to me -- the plants inside! But I always wait until End of September for often it's too hot during early September and I hate to sweat and see pumpkins -- LOL! Plants come in on Columbus Day!

Fall/Autumn is my favorite season, too. Here in New Mexico, I wait until after the Burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom) which was a week ago, and the beginning our wonderful NM State Fair, which is today. These two events are the start of Autumn for me. Fall decs go up then. Halloween decs in mid-October. Christmas decs the week after Thanksgiving. BTW, I can't wait to show you all my great new Halloween wreath!

I only use 2 anymore and those are my Fall/Thanksgiving wreaths for on my front doors they will go up Nov 1st. We are into Xmas bigtime so waiting for that, and will be working on decorating during the month of Nov. anyway.

I usually bring mine out in October. I was at a party last week, and my friend had all of her fall stuff out including mums all over the front porch. It seemed strange since it is still in the nineties here, and I bet those mums are already dead.

The day after Labor Day! Fall is my favorite season and I love fall colors, so I want to get a solid three months out of my autumn decor! If I wait for it to get cooler, I'm going to be waiting a long time. My fall decor is only in the dining room and foyer, so the house isn't filled with it. And I won't do anything on the front porch until a couple of weeks before Halloween.

Mine came out today....yes, the temps outside are still in the upper nineties, but I love my fall décor. The mantle is done and looks great if I do say so myself. There's a wreath on the door, but not much else outside. Boo décor goes up around Oct. 1.

I have a pretty centerpiece on the formal dining table and a couple of candleholders there as well. Need to get some fresh candles.

I'm giving thought to moving my annual Christmas party to an early November gig. By decorating now, I can really evaluate what else I might want...if anything.

Usually, late September. I'm hoping to move this year, if the planets and my GC align, so nothing for this year is in the works.

As I posted above, no fall decorating for me, but Halloween is a 'fun fest'! I start with a few things on the porch, but the real 'treat' is in the foyer, with tombstones, talking zombies, candles, and on the eve the little trick or treaters go door to door, i'll be dressed up as the scarriest witch with some wee ones running from the door into their parents' arms! Several neighborhood parents even tell me they look forward to seeing my witch every Halloween~ this will be my 8th year. I'll be sure to post some pix this year.

I came here wanting to ask the same thing.... This year I am going to be decorating for the first time. I can't wait to start Halloween decorating, so I am going to "Fall decorate" to kill time... LOL... Fall is my favorite season, and I'm more excited than my 6 year old to start the Halloween decorations!!! I bought a few outdoor decorations yesterday and put out the Fall themed doormat outside today :P .

My mums are out and potted up. I love fall and would put everything out today, but will wait til the calendar says fall

Not until summer is officially over. It's 90° here today and still seems like summer.