Do your husbands/other halves help with putting up the Christmas Tree?

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Every year I do it and he shows no interest. I sometimes wonder if I wasn't here would he even put one up at all.

I wouldn't want him to help! He'd get annoyed and frustrated and I'd have to redo it anyway.
He does get it all out of the loft for me though.

We don't bother with one now. Just get a ready done light up one instead or, if they want to know where it is, tell them to do it themselves.

Yup, full family affair here!

My DH has never touched a Xmas tree or decos in his entire life. If we didn’t have a tree he wouldn’t even notice. He just wants presents and food

No because I like doing it myself. Don't really believe in the hallmark / insta fantasy of putting decorations up together.

DH does most of it. We all go and choose it, he saws the bottom off and sets it up straight in the stand with DSs helping. He then puts the lights on (and my help is not really required). We all put the baubles on (DH and DS2 put the star on…DS1 is too heavy to be lifted up but has been promised he can do it himself as soon as he’s tall enough).

My husband has always done it with the kids(teens) whilst I’m working. This year my kids mainly did one each as they had their own vision of how they should look. DH did the lights.

Nope. I do ours, his part in it is limited to critiquing my light and decoration distribution (at my request) and oohing when it's all done.

We like a big tree so he gets it, gets all the decorations down, puts the lights in (4 sets 😳) and I decorate.

We have a more 'kitsch' tree upstairs (fake) and the kids decorate that one. It has tinsel and everything!!

It would just be nice if he even acknowledged it/said it looked nice but I guess in the grand scheme of things it's not the end of the world.

Yes we do it together every year as a family. And he’s very proud of his very tasteful inflatable Santa in the front garden!
he did a rather odd arrangement with some lights in the kitchen which needed a bit of management though.

Yes ...he gets it out of loft and carries it all down stairs
Puts it up
Then leaves me be to decorate ..prefect

DH helps put it up and stabilise it with bricks. That’s all. But the DC do everything else. They put all the lights and decorations on. I don’t do anything, really.

He does most of it tbh. He gets the decorations out of the loft, puts the tree together and then we all decorate it and put the crib out etc while listening to Christmas music.

Yep he gets it all out from the loft, sets the tree up then leaves me to decorate it. Packing away I pack the decorations, he takes the tree down and puts it all back in the loft. He also puts DS on his shoulders to do the star/fairy

Dh could have written this post but about me. He is mr Christmas

He gets it down from the attic and puts it together, I do the lights and tinsel, DD does the baubles with some assistance from us.

No way my Dh is a complete scrooge if I wasn't here he would not bother with a tree! Decorating is done by me and the dc although this year he fixed the tree in its stand because I'm pregnant and couldn't lift it!!

DH will put it up, move it, assist with holding things. Put pins up etc as we decorate the house but actual decoration hanging is me.

DH & the DC do the tree whilst I put the other decorations up around the house and do the outside lights. Every single year without fail one set of neighbours who are mid-50s come out & comment on me being up a ladder doing the lights and ask where DH is and seen even more confused when I say he's doing the tree.

Yes.
My husband and our sons (22 & 23) do most of it .
I'm in charge of bauble arranging.

We all love making our living room and hallway look like the tacky aftermath of the office party at Santa's workshop.

It's just not Christmas unless the tree and her four babies are out and the ceilings are lit up like an airport runway.

We have two trees, I do one and we all do the other as a family. DH sets up the Christmas village and train.

DH is responsible for getting it stable in its holder and doing the lights. The DC decorate. I direct operations

Yes. We have a real tree so we choose it together then it takes the two of us to put it in the stand (one holding it, one screwing it in). Then he tends to do the lights and we both do the decorations. Ours isn’t insta perfect and is just a mish mash of decorations collected over the years so I’m not worried about him placing them wrong or anything like that.

Yes it takes a full day sometimes more for everything to go up. He usually takes a day off and we do it together. I couldn’t open the loft on my own and certainly couldn’t lift the heavy boxes up and down. I can’t reach the top of the tree, the windows etc so he is definitely needed to help.