Anyone else not put their tree up yet?

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Seems most people have done theirs already, we are planning to do it this Sunday.

We never put ours up until the weekend before Christmas, though we are going away this year so I'm not bothering decorating oyr house. We'll put an artificial one and a few decorations up at the place we're staying.

I really like this idea, don’t know if Dd agrees it might be too late in her opinion.
Ours is not up yet as we too need to clear the space, we usually put it up around 10th.

Yes I'm fully aware that they want to. OP has asked a question and with any open question it's normal to consider the whys of answers that differ to your own.

It's the end of term for DD at uni today. They are taking their tree DOWN today, as because they are all home for the most of December, they decided to treat November as Christmas in the flat.

No probably the week commencing 11th

so many people have them up mega
early this year. I don’t know how they aren’t sick of the sight of it by Christmas Eve

It's Advent, for goodness sake. Christmas trees don't go up until 24th December, ready for Christmas Day. (To be fair, I don't have one at all!).

Me! Going up this weekend.. normally leave it until the kids break up from school but they are keen to do it this weekend 🤦‍♀️

Not for at least another week

Though one house in the road had all its Christmas lights up and on by 3 November. But no one else has even got a fairylight twinkling.

That's a bit too religious for me 🤣

I do love how everyone piles in to say that their way of "doing" Christmas is correct. That the ONLY way to do it is tree up 24th Dec and down 6th Jan. Most people put their tree up mid-December, and down just after new Year, but they are all doing it WRONG because Epiphany.

Have we had "Santa is an American abomination and the ONLY correct name is Father Christmas" yet?

No tree up here! Advent doesn't start until Sunday (3rd) and I will put most of the decorations up then. This includes four small artificial trees (I know this is stupidly over the top). The big, real tree will be the following weekend, probably Sunday 10th so it's still in its prime on Christmas Day.

It stays up until Twelfth night as I love that tradition, though I gradually start removing decorations from 2nd Jan so I don't have to do it all in one go. But I love those last few days of coming home from work and the lights twinkling on the tree!

The nativity set stays up until Candlemas (2nd Feb) which is also traditional.

I know someone who puts her tree up in mid November and takes it down the evening of Christmas day because she's "sick of it". Well, yes, I would be too!

There seems to be two schools of thought. One that Christmas starts in November and ends on Christmas day and one that Christmas preparation starts with Advent and Christmas itself continues until new year. I usually work right up to Christmas and then off until January and I love that more relaxed but still celebratory week. Though plenty of people have said I'm weird for going to see pantomime and light show etc that week "because it's not Christmas any more". Well it is in our house!

You’re assuming posters are all religious? We’re atheists so don’t follow advent or epiphany. Christmas is family time, parties, time off work and being lazy after too much food and drinks.

Our tree goes up mid December and down by NY.

There aren’t any rules - everyone has their own traditions.

Mines going up Monday. May start decorating the window/mantle piece today tho!

Ours is going up this Sunday. Fake, as three family members are allergic to pine trees.

I do have a bit of a thing about it not going up before December. We usually do it the second weekend, but we’re busy then and everyone needs a bit of cheering up. It’s only 3 weekends from this Sunday to Christmas Eve anyway.

I couldn’t care less what other people do, whatever makes them happy. God knows life is hard enough these days, if having your decs up early lifts your spirits, go for it!

Nah, I won't put mine up until the weekend of 9/10 December at the earliest, probably some time during the week after that.

Each to their own, obviously, but the early tree thing is not personally for me.

Not yet - only the week before Christmas Day.

It gets earlier every year and then people witter on about the stress and expense of Christmas!!

We are putting ours up around the 9th as DH and DS want it up then. I'd rather wait to the 16th!!

Of course a lot of people won't have their tree up yet, it's literally the 1st December .

Ours will no doubt go up this weekend though as dd has been dying to get it up for the last week.

Nope. It's not even advent yet! We will be choosing ours on Saturday, it will be delivered some point during the week when it will go into a bucket of water in the garden until next weekend

It's the shortest advent this year though
It feels very unusual to have started on the calendars without having the wreath and candles out yet!

We're busy this weekend, so my plan is to get it up next weekend after our visit to Santa's grotto... unless I need to find something to entertain DD today 😆

Ours usually goes up on the 20th. Absolutely no judgment on what other people choose to do, we probably do it too late for lots of people.

I usually put mine up in the 23rd or 24th but will put it up much earlier this year on the 19th ready for when my daughter comes home the next day. I take it down on 12th night. I don't know anyone who has ever put a tree up this early!

We haven't done ours. We're not allowed to until after my daughter's birthday on 4th December.

I don't personally have a problem with other people putting decorations up as early as they like.

What I do get slightly annoyed by is people taking everything down as soon as possible after (or in a couple of cases even on) the 25th December, as they're 'fed up with Christmas'. The 25th is literally the first of twelve days of Christmas, FFS. Maybe don't start celebrating it before the start of Advent if it means you're all out of festive spirit when the festival's hardly started!

Us. Might put it up this weekend.