to not understand why people put their tree up in November

[Memoo]

Bah humbug to the lot of you!

Its not Christmas!!!!!!!!

Because they are morons, Memoo. Especially if they are male and sneakily (sp) do it whilst their unsuspecting wives are out shopping/taking dd to work.

your DH deserves a whipping with a branch of holly!!

My dh deserves to have a branch of holly put where the sun don't shine!!!

I don't understand why people put a tree up before about 20th Dec so YANBU!! [Bah humbug face]

yanbu.

I don't understand why trees go up before the 24th Dec [competitive late tree putter-upper].

The tree stays up until twelfth night. So even if you don't put it up until mid December, the thing is still up for about 3 weeks.

Why would you want it up any longer than that?

YABU. My sis put hers up today. She suffers SAD and having lots of twinkly lights and pretty sparkly things about makes her happy. She did ask me if she should, I told her YES. It makes her happy and I like her to be happy.

YANBU, I don't get it either. It's not Christmas yet. How bored with it will you be by December 25th?

We put ours up the weekend before Christmas. That's plenty of time for finding needles everywhere.

That's the reason, they are all so depressed they need to have the trees and decorations up NOW!

Actually this year they might have a point. APparently the Scandinavian Christmas tree stocks have been severely depleted this year and only around one quarter of the normal supply of real trees are going to be available and prices for a normal tree are predicted to be shooting up to around £43.

People are being advised to buy early because stocks are expected to run out very early. Stocks of artificial ones are also expected to run very low as a result.

I have an artificial one cos I don't like hoovering up needles so it goes up on about the 22nd anyway.

But this year all the humbugs might end up with no trees so it really will be bah, humbug.

Rubbish-it is just to make sure that you buy one. I will be waiting until nearly Christmas- and I won't be taking it down on Boxing Day. I think we could move it and get it all over with by 10th Dec the rate some people go!

Oh Sally! How could you let me know that and ruin my plans! I have been hoping to hold out until around the 15th so I don't end up with a bucket full of bald branches again!

I don't want to buy early this year!

I don't WANT an artifcial one either! Waaah!

Piscesmoon....feel better now...you talk sense!

YADNBU! and Wow! I thought we were the only ones to put it up on the last weekend before Christmas; we do keep it up till twelfth night and that's long enough.

I'd have mine up by now to cheer me up normally - still waiting to get the house bought so can't. Got lots of nice new shiny stuff to put on it as well - if we don't exchange soon I'm putting it up regardless and marching to the new house with a full-decorated tree on my shoulder.

YANBU. Bonkers.

Ours goes up on about the 20th December and comes down on around the 27th. I love it but don't want it around for any longer than that.

You put your tree up on Christmas Eve, in the late afternoon, when the first star is up.

Everything else is wrong.

On Boxing Day there will be a AIBU thread about taking it down-lots of posters will say they can't stand the mess and theirs is down too! (Things are actually better if you anticipate and wait!)

Some folk must like having the tree and deccies up
In the street my DD used to live in there was a flat that had the deccies up, lights in the window - before Halloween

Last year we were really late puttingt he tree up, i was really distracted as I had shingles

Mine went up last weekend. I really like the lights and it makes my house look cosy.

In my defence, I will take it down on New Years Day, as for me Christmas is well and truly over by then.

No it's true. In 2004 30,000 hectares of Christmas trees were pulped because of some blip in the EU agricultural policy. They would have been coming to market this year.

Plus last year the weather in Scandinavia destroyed 30% of the remaining trees and they are becoming a lot more popular with the emerging middle classes in former soviet bloc countries so there's less stock.

My artificial ones alright, you can't tell unless you're right close up to it and even then you have to have a feel to check.

Well, ours is going up the first weekend in December, but it's sitting over there in a box as I hate real trees. Too much mess for me.

If I still lived in the US it would be going up this weekend, the Saturday after Thanksgiving is fairly traditional for trees to go up there. At least in my family!

The entertainment from watching a three legged cat trying to climb the tree is more amusing than the average TV schedule at this point in the year.

OK so the tree is at about a 70 degree angle after a couple of days of the feline onslaught but it's funny.

Up on christmas eve, down on 27th. Anything else makes my teeth itch.

I want to put the decs up now! I love the sparkliness.

So bah to the rest of you