Is there a said date when its ok to put up a christmas tree?

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redwineguzzler wrote: »

I have always put the tree up 1st weekend in December, but now all the kids have left home, it just doesn't seem the same - BUT if I dont keep this tradition up, I think I might turn into some sort of a 'humbug', so 1st weekend it will be!!!!!

Get it up, if you don't your on the slippery slope to bread and jam for Chrisrmas dinner wearing your PJ's

jcr16

i saw yeserday my neighbours have their tree up already. so i am now desperate to put mine up. but hubby said no. the 28th at earliest. i would just get on with it. but everything in loft and i can't get it on my own, lol. however i will do it next weekend, even tho got a busy weekend.

sugarplum

I like to put our tree up 4 weeks before Christmas an every year my husand says it's too early and he won't get the decorations down from the loft. So i just tell him that if he doesn't get them down, I'll buy a whole new lot - works every time!

LJM

ours is going up on sunday (29th) cant wait

DeeDee74

mine goes up when the kids start nagging :rolleyes:
ive noticed loads of my neighbours have there dec's up allready.
my friends put's her's up beginning of october and thay don't go down till at least the end of jan.

Curious_George_2

ive always put mine up the first weekend in december, anything earlier just seems too early...

ive already had a christmas card too, last week!! that will be lost and forgotten by the time the rest start showing up and get put up,
mid november is a ridiculous time to send out your cards!

ailuro2

We are in the 12 days before or the following weekend, then the 12 night or the preceeding weekend camp.:D

redzhell

People are gonna think my family are mad but a few years ago, we had the Christmas tree up from September!

Me and my lil bro came over from the Philippines the year before that and we missed everything so much that we couldn't wait to celebrate Christmas already as it's usually one of the merriest days of the year. We didn't put the Christmas lights outside 'til December though so no-one else from the outside knew how over-excited we were!

kezlou

We normally put the tree a week or so before christmas day, and is taking down on either the 1st or 2nd of January. Me and the kids normally make decorations and hang them up around the house over the house before the tree goes up. My OH is a real humbug and hates the whole idea but i always say its for the kids not us.
Quite a few people have them up already, just pure madness.

Curious_George_2

oh forgot to say, we take ours down on the 2nd Jan without fail as its OHs and my birthday in the following few days and i hate it being lumped in wth christmas / new year