Can I see your Christmas tree?

[BlackFriYay]

I need some inspiration to dig out the Christmas tree and get the bugger put up. Can I see yours?

Biggest one yet do only got dec's on the front 🤣

These are all lovely, we don't put ours up till Friday which is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on the 8th of December and traditional for Irish Catholics and they come down until the 7th of January.

This is very inspiring. I do love a tree pic and will be putting ours up tonight.

@rdlong Irish Catholic here and it wasn’t tradition in my house growing up. 8 Dec was the day my mother got her slaves (us children!) to clean the house in preparation for the tree going up much closer to Christmas.

First tree up here.

Well it is in my family and most other people I know although people have started to do their own thing now, but putting up decorations on the 8th (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) is definitely a thing for Catholics in Ireland and Italy as well I think. We also had to all muck in and clean the house top to bottom but my mum did make it fun with Christmas music and would reward us with treats.

Well,‘I don’t put mine up till much closer to Christmas, but my roof fell off in a storm last month and we’re living out of boxes and I don’t know where anything is, so I’m thinking there might not be any decorations on the tree this year… Have asked a friend who drives for an emergency decorations buying trip to a charity shop - this thread spurred me on to ask her so thank you!

My daughter decorated ours - I think it's beautiful 🤩 and she had a big task to hide all the holes from our decade-old tree that's seen better days (but has sentimental value) 🥰

Random mix of baubles and decorations but I can tell you the story behind every one. Dd(16) hates it and says she can't wait to move out and have her own properly colour coordinated tree.

@rdlong oh I definitely remember the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It was also traditionally a day where people would come up to Dublin to take children to see Santa and do Christmas shopping. Im probably a lot older than you and when I was a child peoples trees went up much late than now as far as I remember. Obviously now people use the Late Late Toy Show as the day to put up the tree!

If DH ever gets around to cutting it down,

Fairy hasn't arrived yet. She's 60 and is having a makeover first.

That’s cute but it’s not a Christmas tree? It’s a cat scratching tower with some old soft toys stored on it?

Only moved in 2 weeks ago but it felt like home immediately x x

Not up yet . Getting a real one and want it to last. Probs get it on 16th.

Love this idea! 🎄

So many lovely trees. All different but lovely. Quite like the ‘wrapped’ trees and the coloured light. I have warm white but coloured lights remind me of 70s childhood Christmas’.

Just done.

@GladioliandSweetPeas i think that’s the point the poster was making……

Not worth it for just you.
You are the first person who is worth your effort.

It’s a tad early for me, though Facebook memories suggest I went this early last year too…
It’s a bit ‘less is more’ but that’s how I like it. All red, green and gold (with a bit of white).

Hmm. Picture said it was attached he’d but clearly isn’t. Trying again.

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This is mine. Gone all traditional now with a woodland theme .

Oh wow I love the whole look of your lounge. From the mantle piece to the tree and the coffee table