When is it appropriate to put the tree up?

If you put tree up before Dec 1st an elf drowns a baby reindeer...Not worth the risk ?

meandashy nothing like snow to get you in the festive spirit! Where are you?

Week before Christmas (smile)

I'm not putting my tree up this year (for the first time EVER!!) because I'm not going to be home for Xmas and new year. I will put up other decs as I'm having a mini Xmas for dd & dgd before I go.
Usually I don't put it up til Dec but not on a specific date, just when I can be arsed really ?. Today may have been a good day though because it's snowing where I am !!! ❄

A week before Christmas. Otherwise you are coping with needles for weeks!

Ideally Christmas Eve, but as there are GC to consider, the weekend before Christmas. It will be gone before NYE!

Gillybob
Last year we had our very last real tree. It was such a struggle getting it out of the house and pine needles all across the sitting room, over the furniture, up the hall and through the dining room. After spending two hours cleaning up, we look at each other and said "never again". When we finally sat down for a cuppa the cat came in and I picked another half a dozen needles out of her fur!
Nice 6ft artificial tree from John Lewis this year and uch cheaper too.

I’m with Sue Donim, the weekend before 25th. Early enough!

No one visits over Christmas so we don't put a tree up. Have poinsettia, bridge of lights in window and two snow globes that I have loved since a child. They are new this year. That's it. Don't have pressies to unwrap. Dementia in husband he has no idea what the day is. Same as the other 364. When I think of all the lovely Christmases had when children were small I don't think a small gift to their parents is too much to ask. We send gifts and cards and are ignored Joy to the world peace and love to all.

My mother's rule (and it was a rule, like coffee at 11 and tea at 4, but never the other way round) was Christmas Eve till 12th night, and when my children were small we still kept to that. Possibly on the grounds of occupying small hands on Christmas Eve. Now it tends to go up on the weekend before Christmas unless that's really close to The Day, as this year.

Shysal very impressed with your knitted tree ? well done.
I’ll put mine up a couple of weeks before....

There was a man on our local news a few years ago who keeps his Christmas decorations up all year round.
It saves taking them down I suppose!

No hard and fast rules, isn't it all about choice ?

Shysal your tree is beautiful! My DIL would love to knit that. Mine generally go up somewhere in the middle of Dec but this year they're going up the first weekend as we have some visitors for the night during the following week and then my family are arriving on 15th - the instructions from my little grandson are that the decorations have to be up but one tree has to be left for him to decorate. I'm sure his daddy must have built up the anticipation as over the years my house has had so many lights it's drained the power station when they're switched on . I too love the whole pre Christmas excitement and the decorations - I hate it when they have to come down.

Usually first weekend in December. Not sure this year though as 16 month old grandson will doubtless dismantle it within minutes!

We do however put up holly wreath on door on Dec 1st as that will not die before Christmas.

We always choose a huge Christmas tree from farm and it will drop needles with central heating on, so we leave it until weekend before Christmas. When children small we did do it a week earlier after they begged every year.

I favour waiting well into December before decorating for Christmas. When she was single we used to decorate the tree when my daughter came home for Christmas after finishing the term, she teaches, so it would be about the 19th or so. Christmas cards displayed as they arrive and have already had our first this year! Haven’t even bought mine!
Now my daughter is married we will still wait and like others I am pleased to take them down, always on twelfth night.

I do think decorating too soon is a bit vulgar but saw yesterday that the queen has a new tree up if (if we can believe the media)...if its good enough for Queenie !!!

Love the knitted tree its beautiful

My children spend some weekends with their dad. So for the past few years I choose the first weekend in December that they're with me so we can all pitch in & do it together......so it's next weekend for us. Least it's December & always comes down before the 4th Jan ( daughters birthday)

My granddaughter puts hers up beginning of November, and she loves it! Her husband once put up her decorations for her when she had had a bad day at work just to cheer her up, and it worked so well, its their little tradition now to have them up early, but then, watching Q.I. I learned that people used to put up their decorations on the 11th of november, so, maybe she is more 'historically' accurate than most, and the date to take them down used to be the 6th of feb!!!
Its not commercialism that makes my family put their decorations up early, its the feel good spirit and happiness that seeing twinkly lights on a dull morning brings them when they have a day of work ahead, so for that, how can it ever be too early!
And believe me, it never ever seems to take the magic out of Christmas for them!! I always stick to the 1st of december, but maybe next year I'll start mid november too!

When I was young, the tree went up 12 days before (usually 2 weekends before actually) Christmas and down 12 days after.

Nowadays, I put it out on 1st of December

No more than one week before Christmas Day for the tree. But a few other small decorations might appear a bit earlier...

Love your knitted tree shysal!Always put mine up one week before Christmas Day,otherwise I get sick of it.