millbank Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Have noted in visiting homes regularly that a number of people have already put up Christmas tree and decorations inside and out. It a good idea to get decorations on outdoors while weather not as cold, rainy, snowy , whatever, it wise to take advantage of decent weather .Our home we generally do such things the closest Saturday near first of December, stringing lights a little earlier at best day possible outdoors. When do you put up your Christmas tree, is it artificial or do you purchase real one from lot or go out to farm area and chop down your own. At real one perhaps being put up and decorated later in month, closer to Christmas. Perhaps you do not put up tree at all being of a denomination that does not observe Christmas or you have personal objection to the commercial version of Christmas , thus your observation much more conservative. What do you do in your home regarding Christmas tree, decorations, indoor and out?
PaattMaann Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 put up artificial christmas tree the day after (or the saturday after) thanksgiving....no outside lights because ive got no outside electric sockets.... love decorating for christmas but it CANNOT BE DONE until after thanksgiving (same with watching christmas movies, listening to christmas music etc.)
KD in CA Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Early December; 12/8 seems like a good date this year.
Chef Jim Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Indoor decorations on Friday or Saturday this week. We don't have any outdoor decorations seeing we were living in an apartment the past four years. We put the tree up a week before Christmas no sooner.
mead107 Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 tree, 2 weeks before Christmas. out side lights this weekend only do the hand railings on the front door.
The Poojer Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 usually a couple weeks before christmas...but never really anything elaborate...
dib Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 I started a couple of days after Halloween (bite me) we get our tree the Friday after Thanksgiving and bring it in the house to keep it wet and cool. House lights will go up this week-end also.
Marv's Neighbor Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Usually any time after Thanksgiving. Artificial Tree, so no worries. We may wait till 12/22 this year to see how the Mayan thing plays out. No sense dragging all the sh*t out for nothing!
dib Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Never. It's a waste of electricity. somebody's getting coal this year.
Chef Jim Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Never. It's a waste of electricity. So was this post.
Kris Kringle Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 somebody's getting coal this year. Now, now, everyone is entiled to their opinion. That's why Hirly5 is getting Carbon Credits in his stocking this year.
apuszczalowski Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 My wife wants to put them up at the start of November, I think last year her mom and sister came over the first weekend in November and put up the tree and decorated. I however sat upstairs in the bedroom watching football refusing to partake in anything christmas until atleast after your thanksgiving (It was a rule we had growing up, the Christmas season didn't start til the weekend after your thanksgiving). This year the wedding delayed decorating so her mom and sister are coming over this weekend, but at her moms place, the decorations went up first week of November. I do notice now that stores around here are pushing earlier and earlier every year to get the christmas stuff out. I don't think Halloween was over and Christmas stuff was already coming out. This actually makes me less in the mood to celebrate the holliday cause its just showing how much more commercialised its becoming. I do like the idea of getting outdoor decorations up when teh weather is above freezing. As a kid I was always the lucky one who had to go out in the below freezing temperature on a saturday or sunday afternoon in december to hold the ladder and stand around "helping" my dad hang the lights on the roof. Because of that, to this day I refuse to decorate the outside of the house because it brings back those feelings of frozen feet and numb hands that took hours of sitting by the heating vents to get back to normal
millbank Posted November 21, 2012 Author Posted November 21, 2012 I appreciate great others decorating their outdoor space, often its not so much the owner who gets the view but passers by and neighbors, the children this a act of kindness in my opinion.
Johnny Coli Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 Some decorations get rolled out a little bit at a time post-thanksgiving, then the real tree two weeks before. Not sure where we'd even get a tree if we wanted to right now. The farm we go to won't start selling until this weekend.
HopsGuy Posted November 21, 2012 Posted November 21, 2012 We haven't done decorations since the Christmas Day explosion of 1989. "Ornaments? I thought you said 'ordnance'!"
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