Why do Filipinos start celebrating Christmas in September?

hello stone-boy, i noticed that too when I started looking at the stores and when ever September comes in, every store is bombarded with Christmas lights and decorations. we always have to be ready before we can really celebrate the grand month

This is all connected to commercialism. Once the shopping malls and stores put on their Christmas decorations, the Holiday Season starts. Here in US it starts after Thanksgiving day at the last week of November, generally. The season ends after New Year. We do not even wait for the Feast of Three Kings. Based on what I have heard, the Philippines is the country who has the longest Christmas season in the world!
Is this true?

I probably think so. Most of us Filipinos start to celebrate Christmas as soon as the months end in "-ber". September, October, November, and December are Christmas for Filipinos and it extends until February and for some, March. I even know some people who keeps their Christmas decorations in place until the start of the Holy Week which is in April. What I really find so ironic about a lot of Filipinos is that they keep on complaining how hard life is and how high prices are when in fact they are celebrating Christmas that long. I mean I know somebody who really cooks and lets his neighbors go to there house to eat and keeps on complaining that he always fall short on cash because the prices are high. lols

Just an addition: Because Filipinos extremely love family gatherings, and Christmas is one season that makes the family unite and have a wonderful celebration together.Christmas holiday is an opportunity also to get together with long lost friends and can take a long vacation to the province. As a Catholic nation, Philippines had the most spectacular form of Christmas celebration as a tribute to the child Jesus. The "mesa de gallo" or the Early dawn mass, a nine-day novena leading to Christmas day, is the most memorable.

I never completed early dawn Christmas. but good thing that our parish decided to have another schedule evening mass for those who can't make it to the mornings. it's either dangerous or you see people still with their pillows and pajamas

Yes we have a long Christmas season here in the Philippines they are start counting the days when September comes. They start also to decorate their houses and offices. My mother also did that but now she told us that she pass it on to us I'm very lazy to decorate. Christmas now is only for children.

we normally decorate Lights and Trees when ever the first few weeks of December comes a long.same goes with the food, but last year we didn't have any because we simply don't have the budget..

I believe that it's simply due to the course of time that we started preparing for September for the Christmas season. some are even preparing or saving money for the exchange gifts or practicing their song for the Christmas Carol..

I guess it was the retailers way to popularize the early Christmas season because they started decorating lanterns and lights in their respective stores. every one is preparing this September, i don't know about me and my family, were still budget short for that

wow really. but from my relatives there, they would decorate the Christmas Tree a day before Christmas and then remove it on the 26th, i told myself "that was quite fast" i mean we would decorate the tree and lights on December and remove it next month January

way to fast.
ME and hubby loved to decorate early for we traveled alot so we would decorate where we were then do it again when we got home.
So Carried it on after he retired and we were in one place and have added a town too inside the house. you can see some of the pics of town in my profile.
and I try to keep this up since he has died.
and most time I add more to town or more to outside decorations

i agree, these are also moments where we forget most of our problems and selfishness and starts doing something oppositely.

this is one of the reasons why I love being a Filipino. where the season of joy and giving is started on this month. at the same time we also prepare ourselves to be cleansed. most people including the media will be talking about the Christmas season

this is the either third of fourth time that I've heard about the "ber" month. i think am starting to believe this, i just really don't know the significance in our tradition. but i sure agree with it. i bet there's gonna be more rain and yet a lot colder than before