Has everyone decorated and put their real tree up yet?

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Has everyone decorated and put their real tree up yet?

We always put our real tree up the first weekend day in December - so Sunday yay!

It’s always totally fine for Christmas!!

I'd be fed up of the thing well before Christmas if I put it up now. Decs go up once schools have broken up for Christmas in this house.

I love christmas trees but tbh the real reason I put it up at the start of December is that i just don’t think I could be bothered with the effort if it was just a week or so -

Yes up since Tuesday for late late toy show... I'm in Ireland so it always goes up before toy show. For people saying a real tree dies if u put it up too early, unless you go to a Xmas tree farm and cut it yourself you do know that they all get cut around mid November! I put water & sugar in my tree stand to feed her till January & she lasts just fine.

Fuck off. Tree will arrive at some point in the next week and then sit in a bucket outside for a week

@starflake

Was on the late late toy show with Gay Byrne in the early 80s demoing a computer I was 8 or 9

We've got an artificial tree and we'll be putting it up on the 14th December. I'd love a real tree, but just can't face the hassle and expense atm.

On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me...shit, that tree's been up for ages already.

One of these years I'm going to decorate the spruce in our garden. That was a Christmas tree many years ago, and now it's nearly as tall as the house.

Come to think of it, maybe I could break a branch off and bring it in. If I can get past the brambles.

15th of December and not a day before

Not until roughly 2 weeks before and stays until twelfth night.

Meant to add, we buy ours from a farm where they are grown. You can either pick an uncut one yourself or choose a cut one, but they cut daily so they are really fresh.

I live in part of Europe where St Nicholas is a big event. As a result people put their lights up this weekend so they are ready for the night of 5/6 December & then Christmas trees go up the next weekend once St Nicholas has been. I prefer to get mine closer to Christmas but learnt the hard way they all sell out by around 15 December! One year we had just moved and had to buy the last one in the shop which was missing a massive chunk at the back!!!

Way too early.

My DD and I put ours up the other day. It's so cold and dark...it's lovely having all the fairy lights on!

Far too early. Don't kids get over excited for too long?

Er no. It’s not even December.
Don’t be ridiculous

No. The Advent calendar and Nativity scene comes out on Advent Sunday (which this year is tomorrow, 1st Dec, but in some years is the end of November), and we’ll have an Advent candle to burn each day too. But no Christmas decorations as such go up until we do the tree, which this year will be the weekend of 14th/15th Dec. (I might sound Scrooge-like, but grew up in a house where the tree never went up till three days before Christmas, so this feels dangerously early to me!!! It will be up until Epiphany/6th January though, not down on Boxing Day evening as many people seem to do now.)

No! Much too early!

(Though the youngest made a wreath at school so that's gone on the front door already and I'm hoping my neighbours don't judge.)

Got mine today so will decorate tomorrow evening (1 Dec seems somehow more acceptable) after the branches have dropped properly. We will go away for Christmas and I'm away next weekend so this way I feel I have got my money's worth.

We will get ours on Sunday, bit were planning to use the bit in between xmas/NY to start sanding floor boards so it will come down on boxing day or the day after. It depends where you buy a real tree from, ones in garden centres and supermarkets would have been cut in October so won't last. Go to a Christmas tree farm and it will be freshly cut and will easily last a month if watered.

Ours is getting delivered next week at some point - it’s the earliest ever for us and I’m now fearful it won’t see Christmas out...

Mines going up tomorrow but we buy from a farm where it’ll be cut once we select. The supermarkets/ DIY store ones get cut up to a month in advance and sit without water so they don’t last very long.

Yes.

Ours always goes up on the last weekend of November, and stays up until January 6th.

Never had any problems with it.

Yes, we put ours up last night. It’s lovely to have the lights on and makes us feel happy.
There is no official rule to say when you can and cannot put a tree up!
We are going to put the fairy lights on the outside of our house today too. This would normally be done on the 1st but we have plans tomorrow so they must be done today. Oh well .