When does your Christmas Tree go up?

During the war, when Christmas trees were hard to come by, I remember my dad went out in the garden and cut some privet branches which he and my mum decorated. I think there were lights, but that might be a trick of memory. Nevertheless, it was magic to a four year old.

Thanks Harri, my DGD is nearly 3 and DGS 17 months so a lovely age to be with them I think
Hope you have a good one too.

Two days before Christmas, so the 22nd for us. Real trees cannot stand being indoors, and as we use REAL CANDLES on the tree - it has to be fresh. The idea of having a Christmas tree up for months on end really spoils it for me.

How wonderful jane no wonder you are excited

The weekend before Christmas, and it's left up till 12th night. It's always a real one.
Last year I made a wreath for the front door as well, for the first time ever. It looked lovely but part of me felt a little disloyal because I was deviating from my mother's tradition.
How ridiculous is that
This year I won't put anything up because we are off to the States on 14th to spend Christmas with DS, DDil and DGCs! [highly excited emoticon]

Christmas Eve. Because it's traditional and because the DGS can decorate it. And it comes down on January 6th.

I have a son who was born on the 18th so the tree used to go up the evening before. I didn't bother with decorations last year as we were in the middle of extension and building work. I don't thik I will bother with the tree this year either as I am going away, I would be too worried about the house burning down if I left fairy lights on.

My eldest son's birthday is on 15th December so we always waiting until 16th so that his birthday was a special time and not part of Christmas. Still do it though he is in his forties with his own children now. I always think it is a shame for wee ones when it goes up so early and they have to wait such a long time for Christmas to come.

I also have a mini tree - quite a convincing fake - which will go in the window a week before Christmas and come down at 12th Night. I'm away for Christmas but will leave the lights on a timer so that it looks as if I'm at home.

Mid-December, then down again on the 6th. I have a tiny tree that fits nicely in the front window. I put a few 'nice' decorations in the window above it, and that's about it, apart from the cards, which are placed in the living room. It seems such a short time since I was last putting the tree up, actually .

My eldest child has a birthday on December 11th, so the tree always went up on the night of the 10th - until, 19 years later, my youngest child was born on December 10th, so now it usually goes up on the 9th.

When I was growing up my parents used to put up the tree Christmas Eve after I had gone to bed but like you I put mine up the weekend before Christmas (which reminds me I have to try to remember where I put it away last time!)