when do you put your christmas tree up?

Sujamjen

Our tree and decs go up the weekend before Xmas and they come down on Jan 2nd.

Bambam

We decorate our room about 10 days before Christmas but the tree trimming gets done on CHRISTMAS EVE. When our first child was a baby and crawling it was 'felled' so often that we decided the following year to trim it Christmas Eve. H would go down Christmas morning, switch on the tree lights and then wake S up - so magical. We've done it that way ever since. Now the children are all grown up but it's become sort of tradition now. D trims the tree while I crack on with the Christmas Eve meal. :xmastree:

*Louise*

I have a friend who puts hers up on the 1st of November:eek: That's too soon for me - I would be sick of the damn thing be December.


Mine usually goes up around the 12th - dunno about this year though, DS2 will be 18 months by then and he's very curious and destructive:eek: (DS1 was never a problem) I will see how it goes

benedictadams

I had a Christmas tree one year

Hate putting it up and taking it down again - made the room look really bare when it was down

so haven't bothered since and not going to do it this year either

Have Christmas cards up and thats it

May get a wreath for the front door

Baileys_Babe

Up and decorated weekend before christmas, about the 18th and down 5th Jan

shimmigirl

used to be the weekend after my birthday (6th Dec) but since having dd (3years old) it gets earlier and earlier I think it was about 25th Nov last year - we love it!!

DH usually has last week Nov or first week dec off (to buy
my xmas pressies and birthday pressents) and he puts it up then

meerustar

Up in the 1st December and down on the 6th January

Frell

I start putting my Decs up on the 1st of December normaly takes me a day or two due to have a bad back I find it a !!!!!! climbing up and down the steps all the time. But I am happy with it when I finish it.

*zippy*

Pre-kids I used to take mine down Boxing day Now they are older I take then down new years eve/day. We do put masses up mind and the house looks so clean and sparse when you take them down.

looby75

*zippy* wrote:

Pre-kids I used to take mine down Boxing day Now they are older I take then down new years eve/day. We do put masses up mind and the house looks so clean and sparse when you take them down.

I used to hate how bare the house looked after I took the decorations down so now I start taking them down bit by bit from boxing day onwards. The tree stays up until the 12th night and that way it's not so much of a shock as taking them all down in one go. A lot easier too LOL