When should xmas trees go up?

[Arch]

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

Yes, I'm not keen on tinsel, although I like lametta. That's another thing that's survived from my childhood, the old box of lametta, although there are probably only about a dozen strands of the original stuff left now!

 

[ColinJ]

Never?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Never?

+1 what he said

Alan...

 

[DCLane]

No tree for us this year; two cats & not enough space.

Tinsel up 1st Dec. with lights already up for the 'No Trick, Our Treat' event we did on 31st Oct. They're not on, I just couldn't be bothered to take them down!

 

[srw]

If it goes up before Christmas Eve it's not a Christmas Tree, it's an Advent Tree.

 

[martint235]

If it goes up before Christmas Eve it's not a Christmas Tree, it's an Advent Tree.

I've got far better things to do with a Xmas eve than ponse about sticking the decorations up. Up they go on the 1st Dec then I can forget about them.

 

[ColinJ]

I've got far better things to do with a Xmas eve than ponse about sticking the decorations up. Up they go on the 1st Dec then I can forget about them.

I work on the same principle, only I extend it to 1st Jan and by then it is too late.

 

[lulubel]

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

I agree with your first statement. Ours usually goes up a week or so before Christmas Day.

I'm glad to have escaped from this silly Twelfth Night thing by living in Spain, though. Ours comes down around 8th or 9th of January because we're still celebrating the end of Christmas (Kings' Day) on 6th January.

 

[Archie_tect]

Tree can only go up after my daughter's birthday... which has resulted in her offering to sort it out the day after for the last few years! A plan without fault....

 

[Saluki]

We never put our tree up until Christmas eve. Our parents didn't either, might just be a family thing though. When we were kids, we went to bed on Xmas Eve treeless and it was there, all decorated (how well depended on how much Mum & Dad had to drink while decorating) on Christmas Morning.
This year we are not bothering with a tree as we don't have the room for one, not even a little one. We do have a tiny nativity set though, so we will put that up on the shelf on Xmas Eve.

 

[simon.r]

A week or so before Christmas day. Under pressure.

 

[Paulus]

Never?

I'm with you. I am a humbug.

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Traditionally the tree goes up on Christmas Eve and comes down on 6th January. Ours goes up on the first Sunday in December, which is the 2nd this year!

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

For those of you not full of Christmas cheer-

 

[fossyant]

All depends when the kids start mithering, I prefer 2nd weekend in December, but I suspect they may go up this coming weekend.