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  • MeNikki
    MeNikki Posts: 657 Forumite
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    I always put up my x-mas tree and decorations the first Sunday of December. It's been a tradition in our family to light a special candle each Sunday before Christmas. Once the first candle is lit, the decorations come out and we all started decorating. Every Sunday we used to do a little bit more.
    We always left all the decorations up until after 6th January.
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  • luxor4t
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    The tree and outside lights go up the day before the first kid comes home from Uni, so they arrive to a lighted Christmas tree and flashing house. Even if it is the first week of December & the non-decorating neighbours are startled.

    The rest of the decs go up as fast as I can chase my my tall sons up the ladders :rolleyes: .

    Once I have woken up &fed the extended family our traditional brunch I spend NewYear's day taking down decorations :embarasse .
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  • ours go up on 2nd dec- our wedding anniversary!!
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  • basketcase
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    mymatebob wrote: »
    Ours will go up the 20th or 21st which is the weekend before Xmas and come down on the 4th January.

    Will be starting to play the game of who can spot the first xmas tree in a window soon - shops don't count.

    We used to play that - and I passed it on to my kids!
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  • jetty
    jetty Posts: 3,011 Forumite
    i normally put them up around the first, but i'm expecting baby number 3 on the 28th november, so i can't see me hanging from the ceiling anytime around then! lol.

    Congrats Lunar :D when is the baby due?
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  • lunar
    lunar Posts: 1,805 Forumite
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    baby is due end of next week jetty, getting nervous now! will you be getting everything ready for christmas before the baby arrives. I have got most of my christmas cards written out now, i just have to hope he definatly is a boy or we will have to start again after we think of a new name.
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  • PIXIEBUM
    PIXIEBUM Posts: 67 Forumite
    mine go up on the first of december and come down the first week of january! i tend to keep them up a extra week in memory of my grandad :)
  • claffys
    claffys Posts: 212 Forumite
    jetty wrote: »
    i normally put them up around the first, but i'm expecting baby number 3 on the 28th november, so i can't see me hanging from the ceiling anytime around then! lol.

    Congrats Lunar :D when is the baby due?

    Awww that was my due date last year ;) even doing this :j didn't shift her though and she came Dec 3rd. :beer: (she was baby number 3 too)

    Christmas was lovely if very tiring with a 3 week old. I can not belive she is going to be a whole year old soon.

    Enjoy it. It goes by even faster with your 3rd.

    How old are your other 2 (My boys are 8 & 6 and they worship her :A its so lovely to see )

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  • foxxymynx
    foxxymynx Posts: 1,270 Forumite
    I don't think I'll bother this year...maybe put a couple of ornaments up in the dining room but I can't be bothered with a tree and all that.
    If my typing is pants or I seem partcuarly blunt, please excuse me, it physically hurts to type. :wall: If I seem a bit random and don't make a lot of sense, it may have something to do with the voice recognition software that I'm using!
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