When are you planning to put up your Christmas tree ?

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DCs want ours up now!!!!!
Answer is no! But I will probably cave and let them put it up on 30th November! 🌲 but I'll know I'll want it down by Boxing Day!

Around Advent.

The people who work up to Christmas and for whom Christmas Eve is the start of 2 weeks of festivities.

Christmas Eve, we decorate it as a family when everyone arrives to stay for Christmas. Music on, mince pies…sherry😉.

We keep it up until 12th Night. I love the cosy, twinkly, lazy days after Christmas, when food is in, jobs are done and we can all relax with a good book or a film.

My DS is coming with DIL to stay on 24th December.

My Christmas tree will be dusted off the morning of the 24th and packed away when they've left on 28th. Probably about 9.30am!

Mid-December as we have real tree and it would look sad by Christmas if up any earlier. The DCs can't bear it, everyone they know puts theirs up last weekend in November.

For years it was always mid December for me. But gradually it's becoming earlier. Main reason being it's so much bloody work and I just want to get it done and out the way!

I have a few new bits arriving in a week or so and will probably make a start then. The older I get the faster 1-24 dec goes and I've got to the stage where I want as much done as possible before then. I can't handle that frantic period just before anymore. Ideally everything christmas related will be done by Dec 1 and I can relax my way into christmas!

Early December to early Jan.

I put mine up on 23 or 24 December and take it down again on Twelfth Night.

Agree with didn't bother the first Xmas we had kittens. They're two years old now so we are going to put a tree up this year.

Eager anticipation, Advent and excitement.

I normally put mine up on my birthday in the first week of dec and take it down the day before my daughters birthday in late December (her choice lol she doesn't want a joint Christmas/birthday) but I have been thinking about putting it up today because we have had 2 pretty shitty years tbh so I just wanna look at something pretty and sparkly lol

The 1st of December. I'd actually do it a bit later, but we're in Norway for the actual Christmas period so want to enjoy the decorations here first, so it doesn't matter if the tree goes a bit crispy! Then we go to Norway and put up another tree there. 😂 I love it though, and both days are so different. The kids get so excited about doing it twice!

Usually the first or second weekend in December.

I always worked up to Christmas Eve and often back at work Stephen’s day in retail, still put my tree up in November 🤣

Mid December. Surely the trees droop too much otherwise, especially if put up in November. I like it down before NYE so everything is nice and clean on NYD.

It's up already I'm afraid, people.😁

Dec 1st
Down Jan 1st

Remembrance Sunday?
Absolutely bonkers

This discussion happens here every year.

My tree will go up the weekend before Christmas, same as every year, and come down on twelfth night, same as every year.

Usually 1st December or thereabouts. But I’m thinking about getting the fake tree and some decs up earlier so in the next week or so and then the real tree when it arrives end of November. Honestly I’m feeling a bit flat and grey and want something to cheer me up!

Usually around 15/16 December as that's when we always did it as kids, just after my birthday (parents were very good at not mixing my birthday with Christmas).

Will come down 2nd probably before dh goes back to work.

But my neighbour (fondly referred to as mad Christmas man in our house) will have his outdoor decs up from last week in November and I'm sure you could see them from space! So we enjoy them. He's moving in the new year and so this is the last year after 12 years of vicariously enjoying them!

We get our tree in early December and it always lasts really well as long as we keep it standing in water. Our sitting room is pretty cold most of the time so I think that helps too.

The tree and other decorations go up on Christmas Eve and down on Twelfth Night.

I've got mine for the last 4 years from Send Me a Christmas Tree and have been really happy with them (apart from the year my friend convinced me to get a spruce and I fucking hated it, painful prickly needle-dropping nightmare). Last year my "Father Tom's Fir" arrived on 11 Dec and was still lovely when I took it down after Twelfth Night. Not too hot and water them well and they should last a while.

We get a real tree so want it looking fresh on Christmas Day and 12 days of Christmas.
Up on 23rd Dec, down on 6th Jan.

But will buy it on or before12th/13th Dec and leave it in the garden as don’t want them to all sell out!