When will your Christmas Tree see the light of day?

I’m coming home for Christmas next week (have most of the month off). My family and I will go cut down a tree in the Skyline/La Honda area like we do every year. It will probably be up by the 7th or 8th of December. My mom puts the lights on and my siblings and I decorate it (I’m not sure if my brother will be there, but my sister and I will be). It stays up until New Year’s Day.

Ours will be brought out of storage, erected & dressed this coming Thursday.
My wife has always bagged the gig of decorating it.
She puts twinkling lights, baubles & an angel up top.
It will stay up until New Year’s Day.

Never.

Read the details oh predictable one :D

Probably Thursday sometime. My kids will be home for Thanksgiving and my goal is to take some pics of everyone for our Christmas cards.

It will if I ever get one of those silvery fake ones, and I’ll have 2 color changing LED projectors shining on it, one on each side.

Been up since weekend after Halloween. Lights, ornament, scarlett and gold ribbon, topped with Santa.

I am not into decorating for Christmas.
It drove my mom nuts and she gave me not one but two trees.One full size, the other about 18” tall.
I put lights on the short one and sent her a picture of the plug in my nostrils. :)

Ha! My living room is gloomy, my little tree stays up and lit all year long. I like it, it’s cheerful. I untrim it in late January, then dust it it and retrim after Thanksgiving.

The Friday following Thanksgiving, I usually fetch the tree. There was a time when the wife and I made an excursion of selecting & cutting a tree from one of the tree farms between here & the Santa Cruz mountains. But the hassle involved wore those romantic notions out of both of us. I bring home the tree, lug it into the living room and place it in the stand at the direction of the wife, who judges the best side, whether it’s straight, etc. The wife strings the lights, and hangs the ornaments which have always been beautifully wrapped and packed by her from the previous year. The ornaments are unwrapped and cover the dining room table. She does all the decorating while I make the popcorn and cookies. The ornaments are an elaborate and time consuming mystery entrusted to the high priestess alone. My job is to ply her with tea and munchies, and on completion of the “miracle” provide the perfunctory “oohs” and “ahhs” at the exquisite marvel. Then it’s a night of tv and snacks under the wondrous blazing tree. Oh yes, lest I forget, my other duty is to keep the tree watered for the duration of the exhibit. The tree comes down New Years day following the Rose Parade.

@KNOWITALL That sounds gorgeous, particularly the colour of your ribbon.
@lucillelucillelucille Haha, that’s fair enough, good on your mom though…I’m on her side here.

@ucme -If we had kids, it might be different but I don’t feel any pressure to conform.
I do have a baseball hat/santa hat though.Why I don’t know.

I don’t get a tree, but I was just talking to a friend who was saying she hates waiting until after thanksgiving. She said she likes the tree to be up more time, and wanted to put it up last week. I found that interesting since most people seem to complain Christmas decorations go up too early in the stores. She said she takes the tree down right after Christmas. I told her why not leave it up at least through Jan 6, but that seemed to not mean anything to her. Her mom was raised Catholic, I would have thought the 6th would make some sense.

If I celebrated Christmas I would put it up probably thanksgiving weekend, and take it down Jan 6-ish. American Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday in November.

My living forest is my yule tree. It’s up year round, except for the trees that fall down.

@JLeslie I would like your friend. I love all the goopy stuff, the music, the decorations, early is great. My friends try to convince me that the stuff is up too early each year, I try to convince them that it’s all subjective, and that’s OK too.

@lucillelucillelucille Nor should you feel any need to conform.

@ucme -I sent you two trees.

@lucillelucillelucille Sally Two Trees (Unforgiven)

@canidmajor I like the decorations too. I also find it odd that most Americans completely ignore the 12 days of Christmas.

I had a friend who kept a tree up all year when she had young children. They changed the ornaments from Christmas to valentines, then mom’s day, Easter, Jul 4, etc.

@JLeslie I’ve thought of changing the ornaments by calendar events, maybe in 2020! Mostly I’m lazy and just like the lights. :-)
And I miss your sunflower.

I’ll put the sunflower back. Just two day’s ago my hair dresser told me she wanted a sunflower theme for her wedding. She had no idea that’s my flower.

The only Christmas tree I have Is the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. But it stays up year round. Also we have the Homer Simpson dancing Santa we sometimes put gifts around.
I usually go help my sister with her real and full sized tree though.

Mine goes up the day after Halloween and stays up until the first day of Lent, or the day after Marti Gras. Or, I may leave it up to St. Patrick’s day if its still cold.

@JLeslie I like your friend, too. I put my tree up early, but it’s down before NY. I love it and the lights but I like a clean room even more…lol

I also have another small lit tree I keep in my guest bath.

Fucking things are already up. All six of them. We have two c-mas trees in the kitchen. It is absurd. The random ones in the house are fake. The two ones in the living room are living we move in and out every year. My sister hates Jesus but loves Christmas in the worst possible way.

“Fucking things” ? Are the boughs made from bottle brushes?