When should xmas trees go up?

[Maz]

When is the correct day to put up a Christmas tree?
Thanks

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A Tuesday.

 

[Bromptonaut]

If it's a real one to last until New Year then not before 17/18 December at earliest. We ended up with a second one last year (bargain for a fiver at Homebase in Daventry) put up on 24th 'cos first was bare by then.

 

[tadpole]

Christmas eve!

 

[ianrauk]

Put 12 days before Christmas Day. Then taken down 12 days after.

 

[Drago]

Christmas Eve, down on Twelthnight. I know chumps who've put theirs up already.

 

[Maz]

Nice to see we're all agreed on this one!
I'm new to this game, so thanks for the replies.

 

[Herr-B]

I agree with tadpole - Xmas Eve. And down the day after boxing day.

Bah, humbug!

 

[Arch]

When is the correct day to put up a Christmas tree?
Thanks

Goes up: when you want.
Comes down: by Twelfth Night, Jan 6th.

When it goes up is up to you - I'd tend to think about sometime in the week before Christmas. Depends how likely it is to get knocked or damaged, how long the needles are going to last (is it a cut tree, or a rooted one, or artificial?)

Of course, the important thing is - decor. All stylish in one or two colours, or all sorts of stuff jumbled up?

I'm in the jumbled up camp - we still have stuff on Mum's tree, among the newer baubles, that my Dad made when I was 6 months old, and they couldn't afford to buy baubles*. There's a foil covered cardboard star for the top, and some little matchbox parcels wrapped up in coloured paper - the gold one is wrapped in the foil from a packet of Benson and Hedges!

*or a tree, they had a branch of holly from the garden.

 

[Longshot]

Whenever you like

 

[martint235]

Mine's going up on Saturday. It then stays up until 6th Jan.

 

[Beebo]

Mine will go up about 10th December and come down on New Years Day.
I was at a Garden centre yesterday, the 6-7 foot trees were £70!!! We have a fake one

 

[Fnaar]

Ours will probably go up on 16th this year (a Sunday) Bit early for my liking, family opinion seems to dictate that this will be the date this year. Usually a bit closer to Christmas. Comes down on 6th. Always. Hangs around in garden till April or May, when I get round to chopping it up. Then I use it the following winter to bung on the fire. Currently burning the few 'logs' left from last year's tree.

 

[jayonabike]

Were going to buy ours and put it up on Saturday the 15th

 

[MrsDangermouse]

Ours goes up as soon as possible after 1st December, and comes down before Twelfth Night, usually a real tree (cut, but in a stand that holds water). Even putting it up the first week of December it still looks good by the time we take it down in January - we make sure we get one species that are better at keeping their needles.

This year we're having an artificial one - we're away for Christmas and New Year so I refuse to spend £60 on a real tree that we're not going to see for the best part of two weeks. Will miss the smell of a real one though

As for decoration....white lights only, multi-coloured old-fashioned decorations, homemade gingerbread shapes, crackers and NO TINSEL