When do you put your Christmas tree up?

Wickedkitten

Weekend before Christmas Eve, and I usually decorate it with a mince pie and glass of port whilst llistening to Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics.

shegirl

1st December

Own_My_Own

Some point in mid/late December when I get the urge. It just hits me.
We don't have a tree as there is no room. We have lots of little trees on the sideboards. So I can't put them up to early as they make dusting a nightmare.

charlies-aunt

I love Christmas but now the DD's are grown up - I prefer to decorate in traditional style with holly, fir branches, real tree, candles, home made decorations etc

Ours go up the weekend before Christmas Day and are down on the 27th December DD2's birthday is Christmas Eve and oceans of tinsel, streamers, twinkly lights & sparkly decorations made her birthday a bit more magical

We have an open fire, which is lovely but the decorations seem to attract the dust from it like magnets & start looking a bit sad after a week to ten days. I find it quite cathartic to clear the decks and tidy up after a hectic few days and have a fresh start to the New Year.

I don't think that there is a prescribed time to 'trim up' - starting in November does seem early to me but sometimes you need to do something cheerful & colourful to lift your spirits in the greyness of late November

anarchied

Usually the 1st, but sometimes it's waited until the first weekend if we're busy.

Troutwrestler

First December

mum26

Usually the weekend before the kids last week at school so probably the 14/15th December this year, the cats will also be thrilled as they instantly adopt the tree skirt as top sleeping place! We put lights outside around the porch, a tree and sometimes lights and a garland round the banisters, stuff on the mantlepiece etc and we have a christmas lego set that comes out every year too.
My mum and dad put theirs up just before the last weekend of November as they then go to scotland for two weeks so not too much to sort out when they get home (they are very sociable and have lots of parties and guests etc, my mum has a real talent for interior design and an interesting house so does quite a lot of decorating).

beluga

I usually put mine up the first or second weekend in December, depending on how the dates fall and what free time we have, but this year we're not bothering as we're going away from three weeks over Christmas and there's no point.

kezbabybabe

Artificial tree will go up about 14th/15th December and it will be down just before New Year. For some reason I can't still have the tree up for a new year.

benedictadams

Each to their own but I don't see the point of spending hours putting bits of plastic/ metal/ twigs up and then taking them down again

Last year brought a Nativity set and didn't bother with the tree, other decorations.

This year will bring out the Nativity set the Saturday before Christmas and take it down the Saturday after Christmas