Is your wreath up yet?

Mousetrap?

I'd love to put a wreath up outside. But our house is an end terrace facing straight onto the street and I'm sure it would just be swiped by some grinch coming round the corner. I suppose I could boobytrap it - what do you think?

Never had a wreath.

Minimal decs will go up as near to Christmas as I can get away with (GDs allowing!).

Christmas Eve is my time to put up the tree, I don't think anyone is likely to visit this Christmas we'll be visiting them so I'm not that bothered with decs...

and tree decorating sounds a good combination to me !

I will wait until the weekend before Christmas to put up any decorations. I love Christmas and used to really go over the top decorating the whole of the downstairs and had 2 trees (one in the sitting room and one in the hall!). Now I am on my own I tend to limit decorations to a holly wreath on the front door and then decorating the conservatory and sitting room. My tradition used to be to decorate the tree in the evening whilst having several glasses of wine, usually meant redoing the tree the following morning!!

Oooooh I would !! Me ! Me!

I love all things Christmassy and any grinch like comments roll right off ?

We're away or ours would be up today. So by Sunday our decorations ( cut back this year due to redecoration due to wanting to sell) will be up and as tradition in our house dictates we will have our tree decorated by our youngest daughter on Tuesday .

Sorry, I'm a bit bah humbug. Generally I leave it as long as possible, and keep it all to a minimum. In my defence, we have no children around, else I would make more of an effort.

I have today chaged the wallpaper on my phone to a Christmas theme and put the wooden advent calendar out.
Everything else will wait until around 15th.

I don't usually start until the middle of December, but my reading group is meeting here next week so I'll be trimming up at the weekend (all that glitter hides a multitude of lazy housekeeping sins!). For today, just the Advent calendars and the Advent candle are out. Plus the red lights over the mantelpiece mirror that have been there all year, since another GNer inspired me by saying last year that she always leaves one Christmas item up.

My Christmas decorating style is very festive and very over the top. I have six big boxes full of decorations waiting on top of the wardrobe, and I can't wait to get into them!

I break out the Cinnamon candles on the 1st December and the other stuff gradually makes an appearance before the tree which comes nearer Christmas. DGD has her 3rd birthday on the 7th, so we don't really start with anything Christmas till after that ... just my candles.

We have a tree in the living room with loads of Danish-style nisser (Santa with pointy hat) characters sitting in the fire place, and some bunting with twinkly lights in the dining room. Quite festive but not over the top.

I have filled the 1st pocket in her new advent calendar for her to get when she arrives for her sleepover.