Is it too early to put the Christmas tree up?

LadyGracie

We always put ours up on our wedding anniversary, it was also my dad's birthday, 12th Dec. When we were young we decorated on 10th Dec, my sisters birthday.

Love this. As a child our tree went up on the 18th Dec as it was my father’s birthday. Now it’s mid December for us but it doesn’t come down till 12th Night

Ours is going up on the weekend. We usually do it the first weekend in Dec but as that’s Monday this year we decided to do it a bit early. We have family friends coming on the following Saturday. too much to do the decorating and a meal for friends so we’ll do it a bit early and it’ll be nice for them to see too

We are doing it on Tuesday when GD1 is free to help.

Hate it. Both DDs have theirs up, like Blackpool illuminations.
Mine will go up Dec 22nd and down on Dec 27th - really for the DGS’s benefit only.

Our tree is being delivered about 10 days before Christmas. It will stay up until 6 Jan, then taken to be composted.

Georgesgran that’s roughly my dates as well can’t stand it being up any longer….. a week before and a week after does me grand

Today, but won’t go up until the 13th.

Is it too early?
Answer :Yes

When you put up your Christmas tree used to depend on how long a real tree lasted.
Nothing is ever as good as that smell of pine trees, but with the artificial versions it is now down to personal preference.

Royal staff decorate the Christmas tree in the Crimson Drawing room at Windsor Castle yesterday!

Gorgeous isn’t it?

I was tempted to pretend it was one of our daughters and me decorating ours!

Family friend has sent us a WhatsApp of her decorated tree today.
I would be so tired of seeing it by Christmas Day.
Ours may go up 2 weeks before and that is too long for me.
When my H was here about 10 days was plenty.

Christmas only last two days this year?

Have you not heard of the twelve days of Christmas?

The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is loaded on to a lorry in Norway before its journey to London.

Georgesgran

Hate it. Both DDs have theirs up, like Blackpool illuminations.
Mine will go up Dec 22nd and down on Dec 27th - really for the DGS’s benefit only.

Couldn't be bothered for 5 days ...might as well not bother

Mine going up 1st Dec...GC will come round after school to decorate it

My neighbour has his outside fairy lights - first in the neighbourhood - I think it’s lovely. My neighbour J will be disappointed she isn’t the first this year 😂 - she usually has a great garden lights display !

Mine are just pop up trees - no actual lights, LOUISA1523, but they sort of twinkle. I bought 4 from Amazon, so they could go in the ‘reception’ rooms. I do put wreaths on my front door, changing them for the seasons.
All sorted in 5 minutes.

I have youngest GC staying here all weekend, candle bridges alight in all front windows.

Artificial tree up and decorated in dining room. They will help decorate rest of house over the weekend.

Real tree in sitting room not brought in and decorated till 14/12.

I love Christmas, love the lights and candles which brighten up the mud winter gloom.

Non of the above detracts from the Christian aspects of birth of Christ.

My mother would only let us put up decorations the weekend before Christmas and I have always stuck to this approximately. They are taken down on 12 night and that is long enough. It is still Christmas until then for us. I hate a bedraggled, needle dropping tree on Christmas Day. Love tge smell of fresh pine, a necessary part of the festive season.

I don't bother with any decs these days, but when I did the tree went up about a week before Christmas and down 5 or 6 days after. Always the way it was done when we were children.

One of my neighbours put her decs up as soon as she took Halloween stuff down, and that had been up for about a month before too.
Another put his outside lights up (interesting to watch as he admits he hates going up ladders!) a couple weekends ago but he doesn't turn them on until the 1st December.

Do what cheers you up on these cold, dark November days. If you are non religious then there is also light for the Solstice, mid winter yule logs, anything that brightens up the darkest time of the year. Our tree is going up next week but I do try to get out walking if there is the slightest hint of dry weather and even better sun. Also, a walk in nature watching the last year die into the ground before the new one starts to wake after the winter solstice.

crazyH

My neighbour has his outside fairy lights - first in the neighbourhood - I think it’s lovely. My neighbour J will be disappointed she isn’t the first this year 😂 - she usually has a great garden lights display !

Fairy lights in the hedge only, thats mostly the norm in my road, and some twinkly cheerful lights inside and in the window, already switched on. its just so nice in these dark evenings to look out and see everything. and all get switched off about 10pm.

I'm not having a tree as such, I have collected some dead branches, sprayed them silver, put lights on, and some little christmassy bits and bobs on. Looks great, cost just a fresh silver spray. Oh, and pine scent if I want just to pretend.

GrannyGravy a house near me put candle bridges in all their front windows. I think it looks lovely and cheery.

Each to their own. I find November too early as I'm sick looking at it all by Christmas, but if it cheers people, go for it.

eazybee

Christmas only last two days this year?

Have you not heard of the twelve days of Christmas?

Christmas Day is supposed to be the first day of Christmas, not the last.

The world had gone bonkers this year. We had people swathing their hedges with fake cobwebs from the beginning of October, fireworks followed a few days later and now, no sooner is Bonfire Night over than Christmas is upon us... will it be Easter on 15th February (just to get Valentines day out of the way first) ?

My Christmas tree will go up on 24th December as usual and come down on 12th Night.