to not let dc help put up the tree and do it tonight while they're in bed

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If I'm honest they annoy me, mess up my tree and don't let me get on with it so I had a bright idea to do it tonight and pretend our christmas fairy (whos coming and bringing their advant calenders tomorrow) could put the decs up tonight ready for the 1st tomorrow.

Tomorrow we are going to cadbury garden centre and they can choose a nice decoration to put on the living room tree, they will also have their room tree to do and all the shite foil ceiling decs my nan foists on me every year to have. But my tree and ornaments are safe and look lovely. I don't think they'll be to disappointed it's not like Iv'e let them do it before. usually they watch me while I get cross

YABU to put your tree up now, whoever decorates it! But if you are putting it up, you should let them help!

Meh my tree always goes up on the first, this year it's in time for the first thats all thats different this year.

I don't mean this rude but it seems the older generation do the whole 12 days of christmas, christmas eve thing where as no one I know apart from my nan does this. A good 2 thirds of my neighbours have had them up this week Iv'e been good keeping it till now.

I'm 34, could I be your nan?

Maybe, you got 10 years on me [bsmile]

Yay me! Possibly not quite 'nan' territory, I don't think. Meh, we're all different.... Round here, two thirds certainly don't put up decorations this early, and those that do are regarded a bit .... Wryly.

Ah yes, the great Class Divide of when the tree goes up.

Have more than one tree?

We have a real one in the front room with all my lovely decorations that my husband has bought me each year and the children touch anything at their peril ; a skinny tree mostly of lights in the dining room in place of a lamp, and an artificial one in the kitchen that they can mess up and be unsymmetrical

What a nice area you live in for judging people celebrating and bringing a bit of cheerful and lightness into the dar winter months [bhmm]

Not at all, but I don't think anyone's wildly impressed by visible Christmas decorations this early.

But I didn't mean to be rude, any more than you did of course!

Really....

Am inclined to agree that this is about a fortnight too early. If that makes me old, so be it (although dd is 14 and was raising her eyes at spotting a tree up in somone's house this week......)

That said, putting the tre up / decorating the tree is soething that it is nice to do together. A part of christmas tradition here.

Ours goes up on the 1st December. Always has, always will. Except maybe this year as I'm pregnant and knackered and haven't done any housework for 4 months and I need to tidy up first.

One year my brothers thought it was funny to put up all my mum's decorations when she went on holiday in August. She couldn't be bothered to take them all down, so they stayed up.

My girls can't wait to decorate the tree when they break up on the 21st.... Each to his or her own I suppose.

My mum used to let me help, and then when I went to bed she would rearrange things. I never noticed.

Aw. I don't put mine up this early but I love to start seeing trees in windows now. Livens up many an otherwise dull walk/drive.

In our house everyone gets to decorate the trees. DH and the DSs are aware of my slightly anal tree tendencies and are quite careful to put things on carefully (except ds2, who is only 5 and thinks 16 ornaments on one branch is the way to go).

However. Each tree has its own colour scheme and its own separate box of ornaments, so only the right box is brought out each time. Only one tree has lametta on it and last year, DH and the DSs were very proud of themselves because they thought they'd put it on so nicely. I shrilly agreed and managed not to twitch in their presence, then took it all off while they were at school/work/nursery and redid it. This year we mysteriously need new lametta which I won't be able to get until after the tree has been decorated so I'll have to do it all on my own while they're out.

Aww, putting up the tree is part of Christmas! YABU. I can never understand people who make such a big deal about their tree, as in "it'll get messed up", or "it needs to be colour co-ordinated" - er, no it doesn't!
The best way to decorate the Christmas tree is by first putting on the cheesy Christmas CD so you've got a background of Slade/Shakey, gather the kids and all get decorating.
Try it, it's fun