We used to always put our tree up the weekend before Thanksgiving. Trying to decide when I will put mine up this year.
With our downsize, we got rid of our artificial Christmas tree because it was 12 feet tall, and our condo only had 8 foot ceilings - lol. We were also traveling our first two years in our new place and not even here on Christmas, so I didn’t care if we had a tree or not. However, in 2020, with Covid, we did not travel so we bought a skinny, shorter, artificial Christmas tree. Ds was here from Thanksgiving through mid-January working remotely, so we put the tree up the day after TG so he could help. He won’t arrive until December 21st this year. I will ask him if he wants us to wait so he can participate, but I’d really like to get it up sooner than that.
What is your time schedule for putting up your Christmas tree if you do so?
Early to mid December, preferably when both or either DD is here to help! Last year it was just DH and I, while being quarantined but it gave us something to do.
Our tree goes up around the end of the first week of December and comes down before Jan. 6.
I don’t want it to be Christmas for an extended time. The fact that there are two Christmas Tree Shops within a thirty minute drive is enough perpetual Christmas for me, lol.
The kids put it up after they arrive—often Christmas Eve or thereabouts. When I put it up, it was in early December but they’ve been putting it up since they were in their mid-20s. It g neurally stays up until mid-January or so.
We usually cut a tree down the weekend after Thanksgiving, weather permitting. When it comes inside and gets decorated is variable. Sometimes that same weekend, and sometimes it’s mid-December. Kind of depends on who’s going to be here when.
I am not telling my husband this, but I think this may be the year I cave and get an artificial tree, if I see a good sale after Christmas. I want a really nice artificial if we go that route.
We used to wait longer when we could get tall trees at local tree farms. The last several years, though, the farms are pretty depleted so we have to get a tree from a nursery. We have to do that early, before Thanksgiving, or there aren’t any left.
Last year we put up a beautiful tree but then I ended up in Austin almost the entire month of December since my dad was so ill.
We have an artificial tree as we are all allergic to the live cut ones. It lives on the carport closet before we are able to put the tree up. Now with mom using her walker and having to be more careful of trip hazards, we are more careful of where and when we put things up on our small home.
Definitely in December and not before. My D22 has a late November birthday and November is about her and Thanksgiving. We don’t mix Christmas in.
We get a real tree (live in NC, so they are plentiful, we are one of the top Christmas tree producing states) and I usually try to get it up by the first or second weekend. I am not that big on Christmas to be honest and my spouse is not a decorator so I make the kids (20 & soon to be 18) do it with me, but they are not enthusiastic.
We have an artificial tree because H is allergic to the real ones. We put up the tree and decorate the house the day after Thanksgiving and it stays up until January 6th.
I’m not that big the Christmas season and am in no hurry for it to make it’s presence.
We get a real tree but don’t cut it down.
H will prepare it to bring in the house and get it in the tree stand then he’s done.
I’ll decorate it most likely.
Probably sometime between Dec. 1 and 10.
I’ll enjoy it while it’s up but hate the up/down process.
When we got real trees, about two weeks before Christmas so they wouldn’t dry out too much. Now that we have an artificial tree, we put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving.
For me, Thanksgiving means fall decor and turkeys and cornucopias, etc. The red and green and bells and tinsel don’t come out until the fall feast is over.
We chop down tree day after Thanksgiving. Local tree farm has gift shop, petting zoo and Santa! So, after the tree is chopped and loaded on top of SUV, Goskids (and son in law!) go sit on Santa’s lap (actually, on arms of his chair) for pictures for me! They are 29 & 31 Santa was MIA last year–the only year I don’t have a Santa picture! Tree is put up that day…but decorating takes a few days…
This right here. I do enjoy it for the few weeks that it is up.
I have streamlined our Halloween decorations (none of that fake spiderweb stuff anymore that gets leaves all stuck in it) and I think I might need to streamline Christmas, too. I got Halloween down so I can do it up and down in 30 minutes (not counting carving a pumpkin). If I could get Christmas to 30 minutes I might enjoy it more.
The weekend after Thanksgiving I usually convince the hubs to help get everything out. As the kids have grown older, the house and tree decorations have become less, but I have taken to decorating their rooms with Christmas pillows, sheets and other things to welcome them home for the break.
My family always put it up around my mom’s birthday - Dec. 11 - but my husband’s family always got it and decorated it on Christmas Eve. We compromised a little by picking whatever weekend falls after Dec. 11, but this year we are going to host a party early so it may go up Thanksgiving weekend.
My oldest was born early, in early December. We always waited until his birthday to do any decorating, and even though he’s grown and flown, that’s still what we do.
I think in such a dismal pair of years, doing whatever lifts spirits is the right choice. So put it up early, or not at all, whatever makes you happy
Day/weekend after Thanksgiving. This year, we’re spending T-day with our son and his GF in GA (yay!) and won’t be back home until 12/4, so very late this year. I tired of all the Christmas crap years ago and jettisoned most of it when we moved to our current home six years ago. Now, it’s a simple matter of putting up the tree and flinging a couple of wreaths on doors. I’m done with Christmas clutter.
We usually get a live potted tree which then becomes a part of our landscaping. Because live trees do not like to stay indoors longer than a couple of weeks, we buy ours as soon as we can but bring it inside only a few days before Christmas so that we would still have a festively decorated tree for the NYE celebration.
Santa was MIA last year–the only year I don’t have a Santa picture! Tree is put up that day…but decorating takes a few days…
for the NYE celebration. 