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

[ByeByeMr]

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.

My DH will get the decorations down from the loft (after nagging) and put the tree together. Will then stand there very proud once accomplished. (This year he had a fight with the tree and threw it across the room when it wouldn't click together haha)

I will then prune and do every other part of making the tree/house look nice 😂 he insisted he moved one of the larger baubles to the front and it was so out of place - I moved it back when he wasn't looking and he's not noticed since.

No. In theory Dc always want to help. In practise they say, 'in a minute' and it;s done by the time then wander downstairs.

I quite like doing it by myself.

He brings them (we have 2) in and puts them in in place in the water thingy, while I make him turn them round at least 15 times so I can decide on the best angle.

After that, it’s all mine. No one is allowed to assist.

DH took dc2 to choose the tree yesterday (it’s massive!).

It’s resting outside at the moment, but when we bring it in, DH and I will wrestle it into the stand, remove the netting and add the lights.

Then over to DC for putting on the baubles etc, while listening to Christmassy music. Dc2 will be in charge!
DH and I will return to ooh and ah at the finished tree when they are ready.

No, I wouldn't want him to, I'm too much of a control freak! On the other hand, my cat would 'help' if he could. This year, no tree, cat too frisky! 😂

Yes! We make a day of it together with the DC

Yes - our very first Christmas together- only been dating 5 months, and I came home from a night shift miserable to find my house all decorated and the Christmas tree up! He’s a bit of a grinch so even more appreciated. He’s kept up the traditions 12 yrs later!

My DH doesn't lean towards thinking about getting the tree etc up, but when I go grab everything he's in there decorating. Once it's in sight he wants to be involved unless there's young kids getting in the way wanting to 'help'. Then one takes them out somewhere while the other gets the unsuitable for small beings bits done (e.g. seperating out branches, lights).

DH is keener to be involved in decorating the tree than I am to let him be involved

I'm your husband in this scenario. I could not give a stuff about Xmas. Dh and the kids do all the decorating stuff, if it was up.to.me I wouldn't bother with any of it and would be lying in a tropical beach somewhere 🍸🏝

I put the tree up and all of the decorations on my own. The day its due to come down I go to see my sister with a bottle of wine and he undoes all my good work for me. He's helped in the passed but all of my baubles are glass and tbh he's a clumsy fella.... so much so I've had to start a new system where he repacks the baubles into wood shavings to protect them as the kill rate forcing them into boxes was too high.

We all go to choose a tree, husband carries it in, saws trunk if required, places in stand and screws in whilst I guide it straight. Then me and the kids decorate it whilat he puts all the outside lights up. He gives one of the kids a shoulder ride to put the final star/angel on top. It's a family day

The extent of my involvement is deciding where it’s going to go - dh buys it & puts it up then supervises the children decorating. I do most of the other decorations (wreaths, flowers & mantle etc) though.

He doesn't but then he puts it all away in January which works for me

My husband gets the tree from the shed and puts it together and tries to help with fluffing ( not very well) He'll help with untangling lights and winding them round the tree. That's it, then over to me to dress it. I was going to answer no to your question but actually he does more than I give him credit for!

We do every part of it together - we choose it, get it in the house and decorate it with Christmas music and mulled wine. No kids so it's one of those things that's nice to do as a couple.

Yeah he goes and gets it, with the SCs ans aometimes me, and heaves it into position, I do most of the decorating but he helps and offers comments and pretends to be interested in the exact positioning of baubles . My SCs also help hinder

He likes tree as much as I do though

He is also in charge of Holly

He also cooks Christmas lunch 😀

I do the presents, most of the social diary and buying for that and sous chef duties

We both stampede to majestic to get the booze

He puts up the trees and all the lights, I decorate. He loves it all but I'm fussy about the decs.

I do it all.
I have a theme going through the house. My living room took 2 days
Starting on hall way tomorrow
He doesn't even notice it.
Yet at the works Xmas do last night everyone was going on about how spectacular my tree was

No, suspect I’m a bit of a tree control freak. Kids used to join in when they were smaller (and I’d redo after bed 😁)

He helps out with putting the trees up and we put the lights and bead strings on in tandem trotting round and round the tree, one of us holding and untangling while the other arranges them, but the baubly decorating he leaves to me. He'd prefer a minimalist look - would be happy with just lights, but I love a busy tree so am left to throw everything at it. Elsewhere he generally deals with all the lights in various places and helps with getting the bannister garland up. I deal with anything bauble related. Which is what I should be doing now, instead of sitting here on MN! 😁

We get a real tree, he goes and buys it and puts it in the stand thing and I do the lights and ornaments.

No never has done. I'd be slapping his hand away if he even tried. He wldnt know how to do it as nicely as I do lol.

This year even less help than usual. I got all the stuff from the loft, he helped me as I passed it down to him. He didn't even take it downstairs! So I had to take everything down and then out the 2 trees up and hoover a the white snowy shit that comes off one of them.

He has been busy studying for an exam though so I let him off. Usually he would take it all downstairs and put them together and do the hoovering as I then put the lights and decorations on. With "help" from the kids which I then have to fix later lol. My 3 ur old likes to cluster decorations and often puts 2/3 things on one branch 😂

My dad often does it then my mum moans about it 😂 and I'm also moving things around when I'm in as sometimes it honestly looks like someone has thrown stuff from a box and hoped for the best. Mum just goes 🙄 why does he have to do it when I'm at work he cld just wait and I'd do it properly! Same thing happens every year 😆

Dh gets everything down from the loft and puts the boxes back up the loft.

I wouldn’t want him to help, I like doing the tree with my daughter. He is too hash bash whereas I like to take my time decorating the tree .

Yes we do it as a family