When are your tree and decorations going up?

[PaperDolphin]

I'm doing ours on 1st December as, even though it is a Wednesday, I randomly have a day off!

What about you?

@TheLeadbetterLife

20th or 21st. Take it down on 6th January (though I’d be all for the old tradition of keeping it up until candlemas on the 2nd feb. January is shit).

I tried last year, with the idea to prolong it to compensate for covid misery. But even putting it up on the 20/12 it was all sad and dusty by epiphany. I’d run out to buy the tree as Boris locked down. It’ll go up the weekend before and down epiphany. Might do a Candlemas party though.

1 December in the evening with DH while DD is in bed (she'll be not quite 2 so too young to help). Silly Christmas film, a couple of Bailey's, a few Christmassy nibbles. I'm buying a new tree this year as we're in a new house and ours is at least 15 years old (was my parent's) and is looking tatty.

We've just finished our living room and I'm so looking forward to making it look festive after a really difficult year (Covid, my DF being diagnosed with terminal cancer, ongoing litigation). Usually I don't do Christmas at all until well into December but I'm really looking forward to it this year 🎄

Around 15th December. Love Christmas. Hate diluting it over weeks and weeks.

Around the first of December, used to do it later but it felt like I was only getting a week or so of decorations before Christmas

6/7/8 December (3 day holiday here).

Big fillable advent calendar up ready for 1st, and I'll put up the door wreath, a few other hangy up bits and start the Christmas CDs

It all comes down around 3rd January so we can enjoy a few days of fresh tidyness before schools are back after 6th. We'll keep up a few lights and winter themed yet not Christmas themed things.

I'm getting excited already

Christmas Eve, as part of our celebrations together as a family. Everyone home by then (

When the schools break up and then down before new year. I don’t feel as Christmassy if they are up for weeks.

@fitflopqueen can I ask you where you got your outside solar powered lights, I love the idea of leaving them up all year and seeing the lights at dusk, were they ones that went around the edge of the house ?

19th as we are seeing Father Christmas that day

I usually start putting mine up on the 1st December and take them down on the 6th

Normally 1st last Yr kids hounded me to put up like mid Nov! I was sick of them by 1st week in Dec.
But may leave till around 10th because my ds (2 in Jan) is into everything And I can see it being stripped bare!

Probably the weekend before 21st December, but I'll have to buy it much earlier than that and keep it in a bucket in the garden, because they sell out really early.

28th November, but we have a puppy this year so they may be destroyed by the 29th…

@OwlInATowl

My youngest's birthday is the 4th December so we always do it on the 5th, after that. The 1st feels a little early to me for some reason

I do similar, have dc with birthday on 1 December, which used to be tree day but now I do it on the 2nd.

Probably the 11th. I don't want the kids to get too sick of it!

Probably a week or two into December. We love having a real tree. I will also make a fresh wreath for the front door. We don’t really decorate any more than that.

Beginning of December I think. And it stays up for far longer than it should, partly because I love fairy lights and partly because it’s bloody hard work packing it all away and I am lazy.

Threads like this only make me hate Christmas even more - I wonder how many posters are actually Christian? Trees, presents, food - what is the actual point of it all?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s September 23rd people. Christmas is 1/4 of a year away.

Yes...and? If you don’t want to think about it now that’s fair enough but then I really think you’re better off not hanging around on the Christmas topic!

Ninkanink it popped up in active threads. Please, please someone make it stop 🙈🙀🙉🤦🏻‍♀️

@RahRahRa have you stumbled onto the wrong topic by mistake? Because this place is full of people who either love Christmas or need a bit of help with it. There aren’t going to be many threads talking about non Christmas related topics. If you actively hate Christmas, why are you putting yourself through it?

You can hide the topic if that helps!

Christmas Eve is the tradition here, then all taken down on 6th January.

@RahRahRa

Threads like this only make me hate Christmas even more - I wonder how many posters are actually Christian? Trees, presents, food - what is the actual point of it all?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Christian festival merged with the pagan Midwinter one. Goodness knows the depths of a Northern European winter needs something to cheer it up a bit. The Yule log, holly and ivy, etc., are all of pre Christian origin.

From the Oxford dictionary: ‘Origin, Old English ‘geol(a)’, compare with Old Norse ‘jol’, originally applied to a heathen festival lasting twelve days, later to Christmas.’

In Sweden, and I dare say in other Scandi countries, they still call Christmas ‘Jul’.

I can never understand why people who hate Christmas, post on Christmas threads just to moan about it.