When do/did you put up the xmas tree in your home?

I usually do it the weekend after our American Thanksgiving (it’s ours; you can’t have it!). I was earlier than usual this year in having it ready for my granddaughter’s inspection on Thanksgiving. Let’s split the difference and call it late November ;-)

We will get our tree this coming Saturday, put it up inside on Sunday.

When my daughter was still living at home we always did it the weekend before her birthday (usually between 8 and 14 December). Now she’s moved out? Probably the same weekend. If we can be bothered.

I don’t… I live alone and I need the money for food… I do have a roast and a steady supply of store bought egg nog. I need to buy some more soon. When I was a child my family kept the tree up all year until next year because we liked the decorations and lights.

Never, since I’m Jewish… well, except one time to please a non-Jewish friend visiting from abroad one Xmas a few years back.

I never have a tree up. Not that I’m against Xmas or anything like that, I just have no real interest in celebrating. I usually end up celebrating some way or another anyway, but my place has Halloween decorations all over that I use as everyday decorations all year round.

No room for trees! Well maybe I could have one with entrails and bones anshit all over it.

@Symbeline LMAO. A tree with guts and bones, holy shit, does that say Merry Fucking Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

My house is cluttered enough. Last time I had a Christmas tree I was still living at home as a teenager.

@Adirondackwannabe Lol. I have these small skull shaped lanterns in my living room window, I could transfer them on a tree. Bought those like 10 years ago at the dollar store for like 3 bucks, I can’t believe they still fucking work.

@Symbeline What do you serve for the Eve meal? A freshly slaughtered virgin?

@Adirondackwannabe I slew her myself!

@Symbeline We need to be careful, we’re way too sick together.

@Adirondackwannabe We could be like Gomez and Morticia! ok I’ll stop derailing lol

And I’ll read this aloud for the Christmas Story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stupidest_Angel

It’s like the Walking Dead meet Christmas Vacation.

@Pachy Well a Christmas tree isn’t really Christian either, it’s an old Germanic tradition which was popularised during the Renaissance and Victorian period, because most of the British Royal family was German. It originates with the tradition of bringing evergreens into the house (usually cut branches rather than whole trees) to symbolise eternal life at the time of the Winter Solstice, the “death” of the Sun. To the old Norse people, the yule tree was Yggdrasil.

@Symbeline hanging bones and meat on your yule tree is probably more traditional than you think.

So you can be excused, whatever your religion.

I asked this for two very simple reasons:

1) I thrive on trivial fluff
2) We put our tree up today, every year Dec 1st, comes down New Years Day.

@downtide Yeah, I realize Vikings celebrated something that is very similar to the Christian Xmas, and that in fact, Christianity took a lot of its stuff from pagan cultures. Is that about right? And who put meat and bones in trees?

For those who did, is your tree real or fake & does it have multi coloured lights or all the same?
Ours are all white lights, i’m sitting here in the dark squinting at them, it feels like i’m in space.

Artificial tree with one multi colored strand and one all blue strand.

We have lights up at the windows & various festive themes going on in the garden, nowt over the top though, no danger of planes landing on the lawn.

Real tree, coloured lights, put it up as late as possible, given that I don’t want it to shed needles too soon. I guess around now, really, though I haven’t yet.

Tomorrow, probably. I’ve been putting it off for a week, but I’m not stressed. Plenty of time.

My tree is artificial, but looks real enough. It gets decorated with a colourful array of baubles, candy canes, chocolates, cookies, and multi-coloured lights.

Ours will go up around the 13 December and come down on Twelfth Night.

After St Nick’s day of course.

Duh…

Drove to Mother in Laws and set up her tree Saturday. Set ours up Sunday Morning so we could help daughter and granddaughter Sunday evening. First of Dec is usually when we do it; actual date depending on when the weekend falls.

The plans are to put the artificial tree up this Friday. It will have multi-colored blinking lights and gold glitter ornaments. It is usually decorated in a festive atmosphere which includes alcoholic beverages.

I haven’t had a Christmas tree since I lived with my parents. It’s just me and my husband, no kids, a dog that can be a tad naughty, and a stupid cat that nearly killed herself in a Christmas tree once. No need for a tree. If I ever get one, I’d probably put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving and take it down the weekend after Christmas, before New Years Eve.

I don’t put up trees anymore, but I do decorate in my wacky esoteric own way. Infact, I just bought and hung some neon blue LED Xmas lights today, inside the house!
The blue balls. lol

like these… www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCZxaaFrWA

Yesterday. I put mine up yesterday and my wife and daughter hung the ornaments.

We get our real tree two weeks before Christmas. It comes down 10 days after Christmas, the day after my birthday.

I like to try to do it right at the start of December, but here we are on the 2 December and there is no hope it will happen until Saturday at the earliest. Then I’ll be away so if I don’t get it up before I go, it’s going to be even later!

Cheers ya buggers ;-}

I don’t put decorations or a tree up.. I just can’t be bothered!!

^^ Fir enough

We actually put ours up yesterday. But we gave up trying to get the lights to work.

Ours is up already. Up in the attic that is.

^^ You already said as much.

^^Oh no I didn’t.

I never knew you had xmas in Scotland, one day in the year when the burglars take time off?