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When do you put up your tree and decs?

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  • CH27
    CH27 Posts: 5,531 Forumite
    Up one week for xmas.
    Down on NYD.
    Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
  • Phils_debt wrote: »
    1st weekend in december for us ,some people around here have had them up since last week :eek:

    WoW! :eek:
    another thing to worry about is the furiture cruising 10month old :eek: might need to get a smaller tree and put on cabinet this year
    :j Where there is a will there is a way - there is a way and I will find it :j
  • Tropez
    Tropez Posts: 3,696 Forumite
    I wouldn't bother but as my partner likes to have a proper Christmas I'll just do it whenever she starts dropping hints.
  • Lucy1973
    Lucy1973 Posts: 1,224 Forumite
    first weekend in december:T
    :happyloveBaby girl born 27/2/12:happylove

    :AR.I.P Michael Joseph Jackson. Gone too soon:A
  • liney wrote: »
    I put mine up the weekend before Christmas and they come down on the 5th January.

    Same for me!
  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    I think I'm a scrooge, as I get sick of the Christmas tree really quickly. Ours goes up the weekend before Christmas Day, and is always down before New Years Day (mainly because we usually go away for a few days over New Year and I can't face the thought of coming back home to the sorry sight of it still up) I couldnt bear having it up from the first week in December much less the first weekend of November.

    For stocking fillers at that age, try Hawkins Bazaar for cheap and cheerful little bits which are a little unusual and which most kids love

    http://www.hawkin.com/?ppcid=Google_PPC_Brand&_s_ref=d8WojztHS&kw=[hawkins%20bazaar.]&creative=8417751057&gclid=CK2N4Yu-oqwCFcod4Qod3mQTAw
  • summerday
    summerday Posts: 1,351 Forumite
    First weekend in December- I love the antipation of Christmas more than anything, so like to have it up early but it wouldn't feel right to put it up before the start of the month it occurs in. However, we always take it down on 27th Dec- not because we are sick of it, just because in my eyes Christmas is over by then, New Year is a separate event and to me it seems strange having a Christmas tree up for it. Plus when you take the tree and decs down its easier to have a big clean up.
    Yesterday is today's memories, tomorrow is today's dreams :)
  • moomoomama27
    moomoomama27 Posts: 3,823 Forumite
    DEFINATLEY not in November! I always wonder why people would even consider it!

    We normally put ours up 1st or 2nd weekend of December, depending on our schedule.
  • Bean_Counter
    Bean_Counter Posts: 1,496 Forumite
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    Our tree will go up mid December and will be down again before New Year.

    I think if you put it up too early it looses some of the magic and you get bored / too used of it.
    Today is the first day of the rest of your life
  • rachel90
    rachel90 Posts: 306 Forumite
    100 Posts
    Always the first weekend in December!
    I love Christmas :happyhear:xmastree:
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