When do you put your Christmas tree up?

Naforan

As a kid, we always put up the decorations, tree, etc. twelve days before Christmas, and took them down twelve days after Christmas.
That's twelve days before, and twelve days after Christmas Day, making twenty-five days of celebrations.
That's enough celebrations for me! (The other 339/340 days of the year are known as recovery time!)
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.

paulineb_2

I actually bought a (tiny) tree this year, home bargains, 49p and they also have some led branches that I might buy as well.

If I had more money I might buy more, but I dont so a wee token tree is as good as it gets for me.

Pagan_Princess_2

I don't celebrate Xmas but was brought up that the decorations go up 12 days before xmas and come down 12 days after - anything else was unlucky.........suppose it goes with the hymn 'The 12 days of xmas'.........

BazzerH

...so 12 days before, and down again 12 days after (rounded up or down by convenience, e.g. weekends)

Lizziedripping17

We put ours up on my husbands birthday, 18th December. :A

Lancashire_Lass_20

It's my birthday on 6th December, so I insist that I'm allowed a few days to celebrate that before we think about putting our tree up. And now that our daughter is at uni, we wait until she comes home, and then she and I do the tree. It's always a real tree, and the decorations go back years, including some (embarrassing for her) made by the kids at school and at home when they were little. And it is a family tradition that we decorate the tree to the accompaniment of some suitable Bing Crosby/Dean Martin/Nat King Cole/Doris Day Christmas songs, and have mince pies and satsumas once it is done. Then, and only then, has Christmas begun!

Mountain_Man_2

21st December, our eldest son's birthday. Always been the same for the past 36 (oh gosh!) years.

Mrs.W_2

Each to their own, but in our house the decorations go up four or five days before Christmas day. The decoration is an event for us.

Elsewhere

Christmas Eve, because we always have a real tree and they are very cheap by then!

John_Pierpoint

I have a choice of three in the garden, one is now 6ft tall and if it came indoors that would be its last Xmas.
The other two are small 3ft jobs still in their pots, one will come indoors for the 12 days of Xmas and be "nailed" to a robust stand to keep it safe from those grandchildren who are still crawling.