When do you put up your tree?

[Nix01]

I'm thinking 1 December this year?

Usually 21st / 22nd Dec. Comes down on New Years day as I get fed up with it hogging space.

We also have a real tree. We have it up for a month. It comes down on the 2nd of January, the most depressing day of the year imo!

At Christmas?

I don't put on up.. Just fairy light etc.. Might this year though as have a baby now. But not until 12 days before christmas.

First weekend in December, but it comes down the day after Boxing Day as I'm sick of it by then!

Christmas Eve, 'tis the Twelve Days of Christmas after all.

I love that so many people are saying 1st December! I've always been considered odd for doing it so early (always the 1st weekend in Dec). But I love Christmas (even though I'm knocking on a bit) and I love the tree - always a real one. I don't care if it's dropping needles and desperate by 6th night - I love coming down the stairs in the dark mornings and switching on the lights....

I sort of feel like it's all about the build up to Christmas, post Boxing Day I'm ready for it all to be over :)

Christmas eve, it's a family(and visiting friends) event, we do it over the afternoon, followed by a lovely meal, the presents go under it after all children have gone to bed, so it a lovely surprise in the morning.

Christmas Eve ideally. But will probably, for practical purposes, be two or three days before Christmas instead. Playroom tree is decorated a week or so before Christmas.

mid December, I like it to be up for DD's birthday (18th).

didn't the tradition used to be that it went up on Christmas Eve? Hate them being up too early, I think it really dilutes Christmas.

What's this 12 days before Christmas thing? Not related to the 12 days of Christmas ending on the Epiphany?

We're celebrating Yule too, Eating.

Usually the weekend before the weekend before Chrsitmas, as that's when we can go and get it. I take it down on 12th night.

About a week before. But I still feel anything before 23rd December is a bit ITV .

we're definitely putting up decorations on 1st this year and I reckon we'll do tree too.

want to make a day of it with elf coming and advent calendar as well

I'm also going to have to have a check because of Crossstich's comment because I was about to say that DS's birthday is 6 December so never before then, normally the Sunday after.

Oh yes, Iloveholidays, the Elf and Advent calendars are arriving on 1 December too

1st of Dec usually...as that falls on a Sunday this year it will be then :)

Im getting a nice new tree this year as our old one is falling apart...

I do like to put tree up 1st weekend of December!!
But last year & this year too, it will be the 2nd weekend of December, last year because we were in London for the day on the Saturday & too tired on Sunday-very early start & very late to bed!!!!
This year I`ll be away Saturday 30 November & Sunday 1 December with friends to London on a girly/christmas trip!!

MrsDV When I read this >> OMGOMGOMG I am SO glad you asked this!

I knew, I just knew...

Its 8 foot and luminous pink

^^ was going to follow

Mine will be up on the 30th of November & down at the very last minute before the lovely men from the local church come to collect them (free!) - love love love Christmas lights.

If anyone knows where I can get some proper old fashioned Christmas Tree Lights (you know, the ones with the flower shaped holder), at a reasonable price - please let me know. The modern ones are lovely & all that... but they're Just Not Right.