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Original poster

To not put my tree up until 13th dec

86 replies

pinkyp · 04/12/2011 11:05

Your not suppose to put them up until 13th for luck. I need luck so I'm waiting. Plus it's ds's 1st birthday next week so don't want it being over shadowed

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chrimblycompo · 04/12/2011 11:06

Ours is going up 17 or 18th

usualsuspect · 04/12/2011 11:07

You can put your tree up whenever you like .

auntiepicklebottom2 · 04/12/2011 11:09

your tree your rules :) mine was put up on 1st december.

ViviPrudolf · 04/12/2011 11:10

I think people should put up their trees whenever they like. I've had a couple of Xmas Hmms for getting ours yesterday, but I couldn't give a fig, we're away the next two weekends so can't do it then and I've spent a flipping fortune on new decs this year so I'm going to blummin well get my money's worth out of them.

Original poster
pinkyp · 04/12/2011 11:10

I just feel mean because everyone puts there tree up early. Before ds was born mine would already be up by nowBlush

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LaurieFairyCake · 04/12/2011 11:10

Why the 13th? Have you got some competely wrong idea about the 12 days of Christmas?

We put ours up when the schools finish so this year it will be the 17th.

Bramshott · 04/12/2011 11:11

Of course YANBU. When I was small we always put the tree up on Christmas eve. I now get over-excited and usually put it up the weekend before Christmas, so 18th this year. With a real tree, even a non-drop one, it will start dropping needles by 6th Jan if we put it up on the 18th.

auntiepicklebottom2 · 04/12/2011 11:13

my birthday is 14th and always loved having the xmas decs up, it was something that made my birthday special...especially as my birthday have always been over looked

MrsSleepy · 04/12/2011 11:13

Mine was up 2 weeks ago Grin

If I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all Wink

I love Christmas and everything that goes with it.

NinkyNonker · 04/12/2011 11:14

Ours goes up around then, I thought it was normal.

Bogeyface · 04/12/2011 11:14

Ours will be up on the 18th as DD likes it up for her birthday the next day. Before she announced this I would put it up on the 21st so that her birthday didnt get lost in Xmas.

We have 2 birthdays in December and I dont think about Xmas at all until the first one is over! And thats tomorrow, my eldest sons 21st :)

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pinkyp · 04/12/2011 11:21

Thank you, ds is 1 next week so I could put it up next weekend but then I think I might aswell wait until the 13th. I do have 2 mini trees up and 2 snowmen (on fire place) as I was itching to start!

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Gooseysgirl · 04/12/2011 11:21

I've never put mine up before the beginning of December but I think it's personal preference really... I usually put mine up the first weekend of December, put on the Christmas tunes, eat mince pies and get decorating :)

OrmIrian · 04/12/2011 11:22

Nope.

Ours won't be going up until about 22nd this year as DH is painting the sitting room and won't have time to finish it until he breaks up.

DCs aren't entirely happy.

onefatcat · 04/12/2011 11:28

Ours goes up 1 week before- why anyone wants to look at their tree for 6 weeks is a bit strange to me- surely all the magic will have gone from it by the big day if you do it too soon.

Dee03 · 04/12/2011 11:48

Mine is going up this afternoon Grin

twinklytroll · 04/12/2011 11:49

Ours goes up when we can be bothered . It really doesn't matter - as long as it is not July.

twinklytroll · 04/12/2011 11:49

I do wonder about people who have real trees that go up very early.

daveywarbeck · 04/12/2011 11:51

What is this 13th December business? Never heard of it. You do know the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day, not ends.

OrmIrian · 04/12/2011 11:56

Ours goes up late anyway because DS1's b'day in 4th Jan and he likes the tree to still be there for it - which means unless we want dry tinder and a carpet of needles by then, it can't go up much before about 19th.

MrsvWoolf · 04/12/2011 12:01

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Original poster
pinkyp · 04/12/2011 12:03

It's suppose to be lucky to put your tree up 12 days before Xmas and take it down 12 days after, I thought everyone knew that?Blush

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daveywarbeck · 04/12/2011 12:05

never heard of the 12 days before thing. Twelfth night I have heard of.

cece · 04/12/2011 12:07

We put ours up sometime after or on the 14th Dec. Take it down as soon as possible. Usually itching to do it end of xmas day as they annoy me intensely...

greenbananas · 04/12/2011 12:09

We do ours on the Saturday before Christmas. This year that is Christmas Eve!