When is your tree going up?

[Hibernatalie]

I'm trying to decide between Sunday 26th and Saturday 2nd....

12 days before and it comes down 12 days after xmas. My daughter.. usually after guy fawkes 🤣

Not at all this year. Got a young cat but more importantly renovations happening so too much stuff is being shifted and there's literally no space for it.

Probably weekend of 14th December

In 2020 half the people on my street (including myself) had decorations and loads of outdoor lights up by mid November, and most of the rest were up by the first weekend in December!

This year I aim to have everything up and on 1-3 December.

14th December

We put ours up on the day of the Christmas parade in our city. So this year it's nov 19th (artificial tree). Can't wait!

Decorations on the 1st, undecided on trees yet - if it's a real one the tree won't go up until a couple of weeks before, if I stick with the fake it will go up on the 1st too.

Second week of December. No earlier

I normally put it up on the last Saturday in November, but we are having a new sofa delivered around that time (fingers crossed!) so I will probably wait till that’s in as we have a really small living room. If the sofa is delayed though, then tough - it’s going up!

We have a real tree so it will be a week or week and a half before Christmas. I'll do the rest of the house in early December. We take ours down on 12th night too.

December 1st.

We usually get our tree around the 10th. I like to keep it up 'til 12th Night (at least!).

Can't wait - I need the Christmas hygge this year as it's been at utterly grim year (only weather wise, thankfully).

3rd December here, always the first Sunday in advent for me.

It's already up. In my defence, I needed to put it up...bare with me...I have a very small flat and I've almost finished Xmas shopping and have no where to store the gifts. They were just taking up space in my living room. So I put my tree up so I could wrap the gifts and put them under the tree. It's worked and I have some space back.

Christmas Eve after Christingle service.

First weekend in December. Dreading how our 11 month old curtain climbing kitten will react 🐈‍⬛🤣

I'll put it together and do the lights and tinsel on the 1st while the DC are at school, then when they get home they can put the decorations on it. We also have a small tree on the table and they can do whatever they want with that.

Up the 16 December ( if we buy it then) and taken down and everything cleaned up on 30 December.

Not before mid December.

Mid December

We usually put ours up on the first weekend of December but we’ll be away this year so probably the 10th. Only the advent wreath goes up in November (depending how advent falls that year).

These threads always show both extremes from people who put up a tree in November (yes I know it doesn't hurt anyone else but I have never come across this in real life). To those who put it up on Xmas eve. I always aim for the first weekend in December because I used to travel every week for work and wouldn't see much of it otherwise, now it's just a tradition. Always buy a real tree, I think plastic ones, however expensive look awful.

You can get some really nice ‘plastic’ trees now though @saveforthat. Sadly I have to have artificial as I’m allergic to the real thing.

This is insane. How does tree+presents take up less space than just presents?

Hmmm. I hadn’t thought about it, as not feeling that excited this year. We are going away on the 28th, so will take it down in the 27th…so probably earlier than usual. Maybe first weekend in December.