when do you put up your christmas decorations?

[emily05]

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around about the 15th usually?

about the 10th...

Second weekend in December, so about the 10th.

Everyone else always seems to get their tree the first weekend in December though, and we have to take home a leftover wonky moulting orphan tree from B&Q and hide its blemishes with love and tinsel - actually last year's was so wonky that DH took it outside and performed Extreme Surgery on the rootball with a spade to get it to stand upright in the pot.

14th Dec usually

2nd, but only because it is DS1's birthday on the third and he likes the decs up.

Usually try and wait until 13th as Dd2's birthday is the 12th.

Someone by me has all lights in their windows already

About the 20th December as DS1's birthday is on the 15th. Last year he asked for the decorations to go up earlier so they did.

Usually around the last weekend before Xmas.

Normally weekend before Christmas.

Christmas Eve

Always used to put them up on the first Sunday in December when I was a kid, so I've continued with that. Although I think i'll put them up later than that this year. Maybe the following weekend (Sun 10th) ?

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oh god I hadn't even thoguht about that. Prob around dec 2008 I expect. The dts would demolish the tree and ds1 hates them.

Tree goes up the Sunday before Christmas. We go and buy it the weekend before usually. Ivy, holly and tinsel gets wound all over the place on Christmas Eve. A few years ago i hung hundreds of little gold baubles in a circle round the dining room light - looked gorgeous, took bl**dy hours - won't be doing it again.

We always put ours up on the 7th the reason I do it so early is because it's the anniversary of my dad's death and he loved Christmas so I make the day a happy one instead of sad.

Weekend before Christmas.If that falls on 23rd/24th so be it.

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emily, you ask as though you need to take advice on this?

We put ours up just after DS1s bday on the 16th.

When I was a wee girl, my parents used to puit the tree up after I went to bed on Xmas eve. It was great comeing downstairs on xmas day to see the house decorated with all my pressies under the tree.

Nutty - could that be for Eid? A house just down from us has lights in the windows but I know for a fact that they were for Eid celebrations. It did make me think 'I wonder how many people will point and laugh at them having their Christmas decs up'!

Advent calendar/candle on the 1st, obviously. Odd bits which ds makes at school and brings home - as and when they arrive. Tree and other dec usually 1 or two weekends before Christmas depending which day Christmas is on - so the 15th give or take a day or so.

usually in the 2nd week of december