To not put Christmas tree up yet?

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My DP really wants to put the tree up early this year. His reasoning is that we have just moved into our own place and it would be nice to have as long as possible for our DS who is one. He wants to do it tomorrow if he gets enough people to agree with him.

The reason I dont want to is we havent finished unpacking and it's all down to me. He isnt helping as he brought all the stuff to the new flat, without my help. We think this is a fair trade.

I cant however finish unpacking yet as there is storage issues. Tools still left behind by people who helped get the flat ready to live in and some drawers not yet been brought over.

So AIBU in not wanting to put it up until the flat is completely finished?

I meant I don't put my tree up till last weekend in November.
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Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night. Anything else is a bit vulgar really

Not that I bother any more, which is immensely liberating.

It's November.
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Ridiculously too early! Was you born in a barn? Tree goes up December 23rd then down mid afternoon on December 25th obviously.......sorry was that bit tooooo mumsnet?

Put the tree up when you want OP, no one else’s business as the responses here are just ridiculous, however I would get DP to help unpack first, might help to get it done quicker!

Trees up this early is so tacky!!
Don't do it

A Christmas Tree isn't just some meaningless decorative object,
November is every kind of wrong.

Our rule of thumb is the second Sunday before Christmas Day.

November is too early

November is not Christmas. Just stop.

Put the tree up when you want OP, no one else’s business as the responses here are just ridiculous,

In case you missed it, the OP ASKED, posters are entitled to reply.... and think that November is way too early for a Christmas tree

Tell him that for every Christmas tree up before December, an elf drowns a baby reindeer.

Yanbu, november is too early imho, anytime from December 1st depending on whatever suits you.

I find Christmas trees before December very, very strange. It’s not even nearly Christmas. It’s sucking all the joy out of it to start the festive season weeks and weeks before the day.

Your real issue here is why he thinks he doesn't have to help unpack?? Even though he has moved the stuff, it's weird. Is he sitting watching you unpack?? Why not just work together and get it done? I could not be arsed with such a childish view of things.

Much nicer to get your room ready first and then the tree
If the room isn’t prepped first it’s going to look like messy clutter
And that’s noT what you want

Mine goes up around 20th dec and comes down boxing day, any sign of xmas is gone by boxing night

Do it after you've put DC to bed Christmas eve, then film their reaction Christmas morning. It's so much fun!!! Especially as its the first Christmas they'll kind of get it.
We put ours up on the 18th, day after dhs birthday as tradition is birthdays first.

Tree goes up weekend before Christmas and comes down January 6th (twelfth night).

This^ I don't know why people take their decorations down before New Year. DH and I both do office jobs and and generally off work until 2nd Jan - as far as I'm concerned it's still Christmas then. Putting up decs in November is daft - you'd be sick of them by the 25th!

Jeez..

Third week in December is early enough imo.

I tend to think about how awful it must have been for the mothers sending your sons to their deaths. And how I would never cope with that.

Advent decorations (crib, carol singers carved in wood) and advent candles are put up for Advent (four Sunday's in December )

Christmas tree goes ip Christmas Eve, down twelfth night.

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That's the point of having your own place, get to do things they way you want it done.

Up on Christmas Eve, down on Twelfth Night (6th Jan). Firm tradition chez Granny.

Certainly not in early November - it will be dead and dropping long before Christmas if it's real. If it's not real, why bother at all?

Get the new flat straight so you can enjoy decorating together and don't start a tradition of resentment!

I don't know why people take their decorations down before New Year.

I do because once Christmas is gone, so 26th here really, I can't see the point of a Christmas tree anymore. Can't be celebrating the new year with last year decoration still on

I am not trying to say what people should do, just why I do it that way!

We do live the outside lights until the kids go back to school at leat because it's so dark and miserable outside, they feel quite pretty and welcoming. I wouldn't leave a flashing Santa though.

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10th December is too early in my book never mind 10th Nov. That's even before factoring in the fact you've just moved in and are still living out of boxes or the 1 year old.

I'd say leave it as late as possible this year and keep it simple as tree/decorations are a nightmare with a toddler. If at all possible, a small tree on a table out of reach and make do with wall/mantlepiece/ceiling decorations. There is plenty of time for more elaborate festivities when your child is a little older.

We put ours up the weekend before Christmas and it stays up until 7th January. Being of Spanish origins our family celebrates the Epiphany (12th Night) so we leave our decorations up for that and take them down the day afterwards. I haven't even started thinking about Christmas yet. November is far too early.
Your one year old will be totally oblivious OP. Don't make your life any harder than it needs to be.