When do you put your tree up? Xx

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Just that really. When do you put your tree up? Also do you make it a family tradition and let children help or do it alone so it’s perfect lol
xx

First weekend in December and I will leave it til then this year, even though the 1st December is a Monday. I need to start looking for a box of ornaments that has been missing for a couple of years before then though as I haven’t been looking until the tree is up, and then it feels too late. It’s quite a big box and I don’t know how it has been mis filed. Maybe it was the elves 🤔

We take down the autumn decor and put up trees and decorate the house for Xmas at the end of November so it’s all done for December 1st. 🎄

Mid December. Real tree so any earlier and it looks awful by Epiphany (when it comes down). I start putting slightly festive stuff like special candles, poinsettias and wreaths out about a week before that.

Its up.

We tend to do first weekend in December as we go to a pick your own place select a tree for it to be cut.
Then bring home and decorate together as a family.
It lasts well (as it hasn't been cut in November!) so it tends to stay up in January as long as its not dropping as it makes me smile through January.

Whenever all dc can come home. Will be middleish Nov this year but I only switch the lights on after that when we get to December.

Half way through December at the earliest..or even after we break up from school. Down on 27th/28th. I'd like it down as soon as Xmas day is over tbh !
I just find the clutter of it all hard to handle! The tree is pretty but other than that I'm quite minimalist by nature.
The grandkids will help decorate so the bottom branches will look like christmas threw up on it😆

After my birthday on the 14th. We drink wine, put on carols and make an evening of it.

Usually the first of Dec but we're away for part of December this year so thinking maybe a week earlier to compensate.

Usually the one or two weekends before Christmas. This would depend on whether we have social occasions before Christmas. The DC are grown up now but I used to let them participate within reason. We have dogs so the lower decorations have to be unbreakable which worked for DC and animals!

Last day of term.

I can't cope with education and Christmas decorations simultaneously, (and neither can DD2).

This. I want my tree to last until after the New Year.

Mid-December, after a family birthday.

Find a cut your own/pick a cut place it makes a massive difference and put up furthest away from a heat source as possible.

Giving flat lemonade every week also helps no idea why but seems to stop them dropping

December 1st. We do the tree, advent calendars are opened and I spend an age swearing at myself for leaving the lights in a tangle the they were packed away.

I drag DC outside for the grand turning on of the outdoor lights. They are always underwhelmed, but they make me so happy driving round the corner and seeing them on in the evenings.

20th December - that's when the festive season begins in our house and the tree comes down on 2nd January.

The kids would have it up now if they had their way! Will probably put it up on 1st December.

Anytime after my child’s birthday on 5th December. I order the tree from school PSA so it’s not normally delivered until middle of December

Don’t have a set day but dd17 has a random day off school every December since she started secondary , it’s roughly the same time every year so it’s now our tradition to put the tree up. This year it’s the 11th. Just the 2 of us and we have Xmas music on and it’s just lovely. We have 2 trees so it takes a while. Can’t wait!

Generally pop it up the first weekend of Dec, then down it comes on Dec 31st. I like to start the new year with it all gone.

After the DC break up from school. Although they are adults now so not at school, but it will be 20th/21st I'd guess as they won't be at work.

1st December.

Son is 2, so can't help, and we have to balance so that delicate baubles aren't in reach of cats/toddler. Would usually decorate the whole house this day, but with a toddler it usually happens over the week.

I started wrapping my Christmas presents yesterday though.

Sometime in December! Basically from the beginning of December I start decorating. Ceiling decorations first, I have high ceilings so it's a bit of a job. Then another day I put the ornaments out. A different day to do the windows. Another for the stuff that goes on the walls and so on. Then once that's done the tree will go up. Last step is decorating it. This will all usually be done in a 2-3 week period. I don't really like decorating so I break it up like that so it's less of a chore.

Not before December 1st but anytime after, i would love to do what my great gran used to do and put the kids to bed Christmas eve and then put all the decorations up, so Christmas morning is even more exciting but it takes days to put up all our decorations xx

This is the first christmas that I have lived alone. I wasn't actually going to bother with christmas decorations, but I decided that I was being a Grinch and I ordered a Christmas Tree yesterday. Its pre-lit and I have some baubles in the garage. I will be popping it in position during the first week of december.