So when do you guys set up your Christmas tree?

Just curious now that the holidays are almost upon us. We usually set ours up the first weekend after Thanksgiving, then take it down on New Years Day or the day after New Years.

For us it’s usually after Thanksgiving but it varies every year the exact weekend or date.

We get a real tree so we wait until the 9th or 10th of December and leave it up until a couple days past my birthday (Jan. 4).

No tree.

Mine will go up around mid December and it will come down 6 January (Twelfth Night).

The tradition in my family has always been to get the tree (usually from a lot, but we did cut one down a few times) some time between the 5th and 9th of December (usually on a Saturday). We would leave it up until New Year’s Day.

I fetch the tree on the day after Thanksgiving. It’s up to me to plant it in the stand and water it before Saturday morning. The wife supervises the rotation of the tree to present its “best side”. From that point on out, the wife does the rest. I’m not to be trusted with stringing the lights nor hanging the ornaments. Last year we had the “Adventure of the Artificial Tree”, a horror story more appropriate for Halloween. The Tree comes down on New Years day.

I usually have set it up the first Saturday in December,

Last year, with kids away at college for the first time, I waited until my daughter was home. She got home on Dec. 16th, and we went and got a tree on the 18th. But the lots were pretty well picked over.

This year, I am asking the kids if it s okay to get one before they are home. That way, when they get home from finals, the house will be all decorated for Christmas.

When I was growing up, my mother never decorated until December 18th, because my sister’s birthday is the 17th.

The tree is always left up until January 6th.

Usually the first weekend of December.

No tree – Jewnatarian here.

I set mine up in the 20th century. And since then I have set it (and left it) in the attic.

I tend to leave it until pretty late, and take it down on January 3rd. My dad’s birthday is January 2nd, and he used to talk about how his birthday was the worst because it was the day everyone had to go back to school after Christmas. So I leave it just one more day.

No tree here, living room is very small.
I want one of those silver ones from the 60’s lit by one of those constantly color changing LED’s.

Never, I haven’t put up a Christmas tree in over 20 years. Because the holidays just depress me that damn much.

Sorry to hear that annnie. Understood janbb. Like to try silver or white myself this year. Just something different for a change @kritiper.

Last time I put up a christmas tree, the whole city block burned down.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving. During an important college football game.

That’s the ticket!

Thanksgiving, while the turkey settles and tv has specials going. There is no big family gathering here. Somehow it seems like the activity adds festive feelings to a day otherwise all about eating, and the exercise is a good offset.

I am a carnivore. I don’t believe in the plundering of helpless plants, so I have a nice artificial tree.

What about all those hapless turkeys who get guillotined every year?

Thanksgiving weekend— the dinner starts with Thanksgiving day and maybe you have a second dinner on Sunday to spend with those you couldn’t work in to Thursday.

But that weekend after you clean up from Thanksgiving dinner— you decorate for Christmas, By nightfall if you can. The tree goes up Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, the sooner the better.

The tree usually comes down after new years day but it should remain up twelve days, until Epiphany I take mine down on Saint Patrick’s day, the 17th of March

@NomoreY_A, turkeys can run, peck, and do other things to defend themselves. Sure, they die anyway, but it isn’t like sitting there with your roots jammed into the ground thinking, “Damn, a guy with an axe is coming my way.”

Up the first week of December.
Down the first week of January.

At the conjunct quincunx of the epiphanical moment on the 12th of never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNNRGa3pKyw

No tree.

Usually some time between Dec 1 and Dec 15. And we take it down before Jan 1.

We quit buying “dead trees” decades ago. I (we) got too feeling bad about going out to cut down a living tree. I still get this gut wrench when I see all the leftover trees that didn’t sell in the lots on Dec 26th.; killed ‘em for nothing. We have an artificial one that we put up each year. We probably get a new one every eight or nine years.

We go the artificial route too. Done that for years. Saves real trees and reduces the fire risk as well.

American here. Any time after Thanksgiving and usually about two weeks into December. Our Christmas tree has become a small Norfolk Island pine so that it can be reused year after year.

I will add, though, as an atheist Jew I love Christmas trees. They’re festive and I really enjoy them.

That is because they are pagan iconography.

No, it is because they are adorned with pretty colors and sparkles.
It is like having a happy visitor that doesn’t eat your food or use your bathroom, and when you want them to go, there are no hurt feelings to deal with.

And when you get sick of them you can set them on fire.

(That’s what I do with visiting relatives. That is why I don’t have to cook for a crowd anymore.)