When is it appropriate to put the tree up?

Late Christmas Eve, take it down Boxing Day.

Just before the GSs get here, the weekend before Christmas.

NannyTee, so glad to hear that your son is making progress.

TwiceAsNice, hope the operation goes well. Put your feet up and let the family take over.

12 days of Christmas for me too. Nothing designer or very artistic just familiar decorations with special memories, I love all the excitement and fun of Christmas but not too early.
Try not to forget what the season is all about amid all the hype.

The first Saturday in December whatever date that is. We all go to the garden centre and buy real trees for DD2 and me. DD1 has an artificial one then we spend the day decorating all 3 homes. I moved house between Christmas and New Year last year so am very excited to see all my Christmas stuff in my new flat. As a family we go bonkers at Christmas with everything and love all the celebrations but I love the real meaning of Christmas too and like the church run up to the big day, that's more peaceful. I have to make sure I'm finished in good time as I have an operation planned for 21st December and will be fit for nothing after that.

The 12 Days of Christmas. Up on 24th, down on 6th. Minimal decorations - small is beautiful. ?

It isn't just the dust though is it? I always pay extra through the nose for a non drop needle tree. It's always stood away from any radiator; in a bucket of water and I vacuum around it daily. So how come I still find needles under the edges of rugs; down the side of the sofa and tucked just under the skirting boards in July? Who puts them there?

Just dust collectors the longer they're up. Bah humbug ... Hahahaha

We all have our own traditions don't we? No right or wrong. I love it all, tree goes up about 10 days before and stays til 12th night.
Far too many other things I used to need to do on Christmas Eve to have time to dress the tree. A friend and I used to always take all our children to the theatre on Christmas Eve. Small theatre not a big show.
Then I would try to get as much of the food prep done as I could so that I could spend more time with the children on Christmas Day.
No need for that now but the tree still goes up about 10 days before and I really enjoy the look of it and the smell of it.

Surely it is personal choice when you put your tree up ? I would choose Christmas eve as an appropriate day but everyone is different . By the time the Day actually arrives I am fed up with all the hype and tacky decorations but that`s just me

ginny - our daughter shares your DD's way of thinking. Her birthday is 18th Dec and I remember asking her when she was five and having her first "proper" birthday party with school friends and I asked her if she wanted the tree up and she was quite adamant "it's my birthday not Christmas" so all the years she was at home I used to put incoming Christmas cards away until after her birthday and tree and decorations went jup around 20th and I still stick to that although it is just DH and myself. I'm afraid GS has no choice as his birthday is Christmas day but we make sure his birthday is celebrated with cake and separate presents.

Very expensive though Lemon - we looked at the local GC recently and thought we may get a tiny real one instead. Well, I thought, but DH said NO!!

It was only tiny, a little blue spruce

The Sunday before Christmas. Any earlier and I get fed up with it. Down on the 2nd January because by then I'm fed up with it anyway.

We gave up real trees, got too heavy for Dh to lug about, but there are some lovely artificial ones now.

Sorry I don't know the background nannyt. but it sounds like very good news.
My tree is only up about a week before Xmas then taken down well before 12th night.

big debate!

We do have lights outside (DH's thing!) but they are just the white ones and definitely no Santas going ho ho ho!!

We haven't got a tree, there is always the bit debate about real or fake and my real one from two years ago has died - and they are too heavy to heave indoors nowadays.

NannyTee What good news, I hope he continues to make good progress.

We put our tree up about a week before Christmas and take it down soon after the New Year. Mainly because we usually go away for a week in the first week of January and want neither the tree nor the decorations to be still up when we return.

I like that, corner !

When we were building our new house DH put up an artificial tree on the scaffolding with masses of lights. So many people commented how it looked as though the tree was floating in the sky. We still put the same tree up by a window so it can be seen from the road and paths.

Our actual Christmas tree usually goes up on 19 December - a special day as our first DD died suddenly on that day age 7 months over 40 years ago. We try to spend the day wrapping gifts, sorting out the tree and being kind to ourselves.

Two weeks before Christmas here, and they stay up until 12th night.
Carols from Kings playing, candles and holly wreath on the door, the only thing I don’t have are lights outside or moving figures going ‘ho ho ho’

Usually about ten days before, especially now the pester power of children is no more. Having written that, such happy memories of resisting the demands to put the tree up PLEASE are flooding back. I never take the decorations down till 12th night. I love everything about it and avoid stuff I don't love (like that awful Slade song)

Just do it when it suits you, minimo. Ours tend to go,up early and are gone the day after Boxing Day, unless we are having family here between Christmas and New Year.

Good luck with your move Ffinochio. We once did the same, the first thing I did was to install an artificial teee in the front window. We didn’t have curtains but we had a tree. We were known for ages as ‘the family with the tree’.

About a week before Christmas for us, but if DH had his way it would be up already! Then, when Christmas is over, I can’t wait for it to come down again! I have to say, there aren’t any domestic ones in evidence at the moment. At the sawmill in a wood we were walking in this afternoon, fresh cut Christmas trees were on sale. I think they were Nordman spruce which are not supposed to drop their needles, but I wouldn’t buy one this early.

Yes it's getting really expensive over here . My Sons is 16th *December and his little girl the 18th. And guess what ladies???? He has walked without aid today I am still sobbing xx