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Is your Christmas tree up yet?

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  • ubamother
    ubamother Posts: 1,190 Forumite
    No, mine goes up on Christmas Eve morning and is decorated Christmas Eve evening after the Crib Service and before bed.
  • Decorations are up but as we are now MSE we haven't bought a tree this year - €20 saved! :money:
    Bon App's Scraps!
    :)
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  • freakyogre
    freakyogre Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    No tree for me! I live on my own and don't particularly like Christmas, so seems a bit pointless.

    BAH HUMBUG! :p
    Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
  • Muddles
    Muddles Posts: 75 Forumite
    I put mine up on the 2nd of December. I was so fed up with the awful weather I thought it might cheer me up. It did :j Also my son and his partner came home this weekend and I wanted them to see the house all Christmassy as I will be spending the festive period with them in London. I don't think mine has ever been up so early :snow_laug
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,640 Forumite
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    Ours won't go up until next weekend. As this isn't specific to MoneySaving Old Style I'll move it over to the Christmas MoneySaving board.

    Hi, Martin’s asked me to post this in these circumstances: I’ve asked Board Guides to move threads if they’ll receive a better response elsewhere(please see this rule) so this post/thread has been moved to another board, where it should get more replies. If you have any questions about this policy please email [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"]abuse@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL].

    Pink
  • mary-op
    mary-op Posts: 3,605 Forumite
    Ours has always gone up the week before Christmas along with the decorations even when the kids were little.
    We must look like real 'bah humbugs' in our street..........they've all got their lights on and trees up:rotfl:
    I would be unstoppable if only I could get started !

    (previously known as mary43)
  • jetty
    jetty Posts: 3,011 Forumite
    I put ours up today even tho it has to come down again in 2 weeks and then go up again somewhere else :rotfl: I just had to :o
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  • tiff
    tiff Posts: 6,608 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Savvy Shopper!
    Carpets being cleaned on Thursday so tree will go up at the weekend. Usally do it the first weekend in Dec as the kids keep on and we tend to be quite busy closer to Christmas.
    “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey
  • claffys
    claffys Posts: 212 Forumite
    For years ours went up on the 1st. Then 2 years ago dd arrived on the 3rd so last year they went up the 4/5th.

    This year they are not going up untill the 18th. A mixture of I can't be doing with telling dd off for touching it every 2 mins and we are now on a electric meter so want it up for less time + the boys finish school on the 18th so can really start christmas off then :T

    This is the first year in 10 years we are not first to have ours up in our street. 2 houses have put theirs up today.

    X
  • kjmtidea
    kjmtidea Posts: 1,372 Forumite
    Ours went up the last day of November, we have 4 children so it is great fun doing it all together, then we sit in front of the big tree and take a photo of us all together.
    Slimming World - 3 stone 8 1/2lbs in 7 months and now at target :j
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