Survey - Who has their Christmas 🎄 up

[Lawrence00]

Just noticed that the apartment across the walkway has their tree up. If I was nosy I could take out my binoculars and see if there are presents

What about outside lights?

I bought my daughter a Charlie Brown Christmas as space is cramped.

 

[jujube]

It's sitting in the box in my guestroom. I may put it up this week because I might be away for a week for Thanksgiving and I want it up and ready to turn the lights on when I get back. I won't put up any outside decorations, though, until after December 1st. Just my rule.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Quite a few people in my neighborhood decorated for Christmas the weekend after Halloween.

One home has both with skeletons and pumpkins wearing Santa hats.

I often wonder where some of these people store all of their elaborate holiday decorations, some of them must store them offsite.

I never seem to catch the Christmas spirit until quite late in the season and even then I’m more of a wreath on the door and candle in the window kind of person, save the money for treats and presents!

 

[January]

Nope. I never put it up until Dec 1st at the earliest

 

[-Oy-]

I'm photographing my first Santa Parade and Xmas Light's switch on November 23rd! They say it's the start of 'Retail Christmas'.

Yes - NOVEMBER! It's a travesty. But hey - they're paying me!

 

[Jazzy1]

Too early for me. Tree gets put up the second week of December. I don't have any outside lights.

 

[QuietByNature]

Over the weekend I pulled down the Christmas and bins from the garage attic.
This coming weekend, we have the grandkids over and they will help put it up and decorate it. All the while in the background, the locsl Santa Clause Parade will be on the TV.

 

[Raven]

My small artificial tree goes up around the middle of December and comes down on new years day.
The coloured lights are very cheerful to have in my living room. I have electric candles in a couple of windows.
That is all the decorating I do.

 

[old medic]

NOPE.... 11/26-1/1

 

[Tommy]

Ours is "up" . . . somewhere on our land. I'll go find and cut it in early December.

(It's typically a three-foot Charlie Brown tree that goes into the fireplace right after New Year's Day._

 

[PeppermintPatty]

We buy a real one a couple of weeks prior to Christmas. It needs watering plenty so all its needles don’t fall all over. I love the smell of a fresh tree.

 

[IrishEyes]

I doubt I do this year unless DH actually participates in the chore of helping with everything it involves - beginning to end.
I may hang up some outdoor lights on my dog fence on my own, haven't done any outdoor stuff here since moving in.

 

[Oldeagle66]

Nope, still buried somewhere in the back of the closet. Haven't seen it since 2012.

 

[officerripley]

I doubt I do this year unless DH actually participates in the chore of helping with everything it involves - beginning to end.

"…[T]he [winter] holidays…[are]...an annual festival put on by women for the enjoyment of men and children.”
~~from Yeah, No. Not Happening: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too by Karen Karbo

 

[GoodEnuff]

We buy a real one a couple of weeks prior to Christmas. It needs watering plenty so all its needles don’t fall all over. I love the smell of a fresh tree.

Me, too! But I just walk outside my door for that.

I don't decorate for holidays anymore. Nobody to do it for except me and it's just too much work, plus I don't have space to store all of that stuff. It's kind of a relief, lol.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Me, too! But I just walk outside my door for that.

I don't decorate for holidays anymore. Nobody to do it for except me and it's just too much work, plus I don't have space to store all of that stuff. It's kind of a relief, lol.

My man cuts all our firewood so I get the same type of smell when I go outside but a freshly cut tree in the house smells different.
Maybe you could get a miniature one for your house. Surely you are worth doing it for.

 

[mike4lorie]

By rule, it never goes up till after Remembrance Day... I think this is the earliest it's ever been up in the last twenty years.. It's a prelit tree... No decorations on it, but it's up... Our new pup. Duke doesn't seem to care about it...

Normally, it goes up in the first week of December sometime...

 

[Ronni]

I start decorating Thanksgiving weekend, after we have our gathering. But we don’t put the tree up till mid December because Ron likes a live tree, so any earlier and it wouldn’t look fresh for Christmas.

We’re still trying to figure out where to put it! We moved into this house September of last year, then Ron fell out of the attic and broke his foot Thanksgiving weekend, so I never did finish the decorating including getting a tree. I had a small artificial one that we put on the kitchen table but that was it.

So this year we have to problem-solve where we’d put one which will likely mean moving some piece of furniture out of the living room so we have room.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

By rule, it never goes up till after Remembrance Day... I think this is the earliest it's ever been up in the last twenty years.. It's a prelit tree... No decorations on it, but it's up... Our new pup. Duke doesn't seem to care about it...

Normally, it goes up in the first week of December sometime...

Oh Mike, can we see a picture of your new pup! Oh please ! Oh please!

 

[IKE]

Been together almost 50 years and we've never decorated inside or outside.....

 

[That Lady in PA]

Christmas doesn't happen until Thanksgiving is over.

IMHO, those people who rush the season are the same ones tearing everything down on December 26th.

 

[mike4lorie]

Everyone, meet Duke. He is a 4-year-old rescue. When he came to live with us a month ago, his name was Meatloaf... Didn't really know his name, so we thought he looked like a Duke... He is Lab/Mastiff

 

[Michael Z]

Normally right after Thanksgiving, but maybe later this year when our youngest gets back from college in mid December.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Normally right after Thanksgiving, but maybe later this year when our youngest gets back from college in mid December.

Wait and put ‘em to work when they get home!

 

[Lilac]

Christmas decorating doesn't start until after Thanksgiving & everything comes down the week after Christmas. By New Years, every thing is packed away & back in it's place.