Christmas Decs up and taking down

Used to go up after 19th, family birthday, now earlier; I am hoping for next weekend for the tree, but introduce other decorations more slowly; they never come down before 12th Night. Hate this habit of putting up decorations in first week of December, even end of November, as the trees and decorations look tatty by Christmas Day.

Up next weekend, (usually the Sunday that Sports Personality of the Year is on) down on the 2nd-Christmas cards come down earlier in order to get them collected and recycled. One year I took everything down on the 27th as we were going away from 28th til 2nd and I didn't want to come back to 'Christmas' still up in the house.

I haven't put any decs up yet. I like to give the house a good clean before I decorate it, so maybe next weekend. In years past it has sometimes even been Christmas Eve before I've got the decorations up!

I prefer to take them down before New Years day. It has always seemed odd to me to start a new year with last year's decorations still up. But in recent years it depends when our AC and GC are visiting, if they can't come until after Christmas, or even the New Year, then I leave the decorations up to prolong the festive spirit.

We are away for five days over Christmas so we are not putting up the full panoply of “stuff” this year. The tree is up because the family are coming to lunch tomorrow and I wanted at least a whiff of the season. We will, however, take a small fibre optic tree and some decs with us to the apartment we are in for GS (and Grandad - he loves Christmas, wherever he is!). I am another who wants the decorations down as soon as possible after New Year’s Day.

Put ours up first weekend in December. Biggish artificial tree in sitting room, then two more in the conservatory, both cast offs from work, but still good. When I was working, used to like to see lighted trees in houses in the dark as I drove to and from work, so always put the lights on as soon as I get up in the morning. Plus candle bridges in four windows, like them also.
After Christmas soon want stuff down. Certainly before New Year. Will be down the first weekend after the 25th this year.
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For probably the third year running I won't bother with anything. Which is a shame as I got some of the decoration boxes out yesterday and I've collected some beautiful stuff over the years. We go to my daughters on Christmas Day and people rarely come here so there's no one to see it. This was going to be the year when I really celebrated Christmas but it's all gone a bit wrong. The young dog would probably destroy the tree if I left her with it for a second. Might change my mind...

I got the boxes out to sort and put one or two bits up today, but the bulk of the decorations and the tree won’t go up until about a week before Christmas Day. Everything stays up then till 6th January.

And I can't be bothered with all the messing as it's soon over.

Outside lights went up today. Some more on Monday with DGD but the trees only a week before so they stay fresh. Not down again till Twelfth Night.

Second weekend of December here for tree and decorations, depends upon when DS or DSil can come over and get them down from the loft for me.

They come down twelfth night, as I love them up for as long as possible.

Decorations will be stored in the garage from now on, so I can get at them easily when I am ready.

I always put them up second Sunday in December down New Year’s Day.

As others are putting up lights and decorations earlier each year, we are moving with the crowd. The artificial tree in our front bay window will go up this weekend.

We went out and bought our real tree for the living room today because if we leave it any later, we find the best trees are sold and only the scrappy ones are left. However it is out in the garden and will be there for at least another week.

We are away to a Christmas Market for four days this week and when we get back I will just gradually put the rest of the decorations up bit by bit over the next few weeks.

When they come down depends entirely on when the family go home, usually New Years day +/- a couple of days. Once they are all back home and I have had 24 hours to recover, I start taking the decorations down.

Other not ogre . Phone does what it likes

Tree and ogre decorations went up on the 1st of Dec or the weekend nearest to it. Love Christmas

All decorations go up about 10 days before and come down 2nd January.

Usually depends on whether we have any guests before Christmas. Last year the whole lot went up by about the 6th, since we had guests staying a couple of nights.

Usually more like the 16th ish, depending on the diary. Tree always needs dh to manhandle and saw a bit off the bottom, and both of us to settle it in a bucket of wet gravel.

I put a few bits up yesterday but no tree yet, since brother and SiL were coming for lunch, and a small potted tree with lights has been outside the front door since 1st Dec, as usual.

We never take them down until 6th January. TBH I find January, esp. the first half, quite dreary enough anyway, so the longer it's brightened up a bit, the better.

Oh yes ygg I think it must be magical with the castle and medieval and Georgian buildings and Christmas tree etc. We might go but parking will be a nightmare even all along the road to the Black Rabbit past the bird sanctuary and lake...

WW2 It's too far for me, but my daughter & family are much involved. I will see the pictures

We're putting up ours on Saturday and always take them down New Year's day.

Tree goes up a week before, along with the door wreath. MamaCaz, I'm another one with a birthday in the meantime.

I still have a deep-seated resentment of Christmas - caused by all the 'double presents' in childhood (to me, it was a case of getting only one present, instead of two, as kids don't understand about cost) along with my cards being sidelined to the kitchen windowsill, oh, and my party being an inconvenient interruption of the Christmas preparations!

I was jealous of my sister, who had a (far superior) birthday in July!

My daughter is in a choir cabbie Arundel on Saturday, it their Christmas festival. Nice day out.

We have to wait till after a birthday, then it depends when I can find time, usually around 15th, as I have so many singing dates in December. If DH had his way they would go up on Christmas Eve. As we are late getting them up, they stay as long as possible, at least till 2 Jan or later if I have got time, again depending on commitments.
I hate the dark, miserable days of January without seeing all the decorations in the streets and outside houses. I wish people would keep the lights on ( but not the reindeer and Santa).

Usually I do the tree on the weekend before Xmas and it’s taken down prior to Twelfth Night. However, due to so many people no longer observing the Twelve Days of Christmas I now feel obliged to put them up and take then down earlier.

I’m quite sad that the 12 days of Christmas aren’t really a thing anymore. It used to be when we did a lot of our socialising but that’s now mostly changed to before Christmas, as well.

I’ll possibly put the tree up next weekend, as dd2 is coming home then and will complain if we’re still bare.

Meant to add that the decs come down on 12th night, which is my birthday. So as a child I always had Christmas decorations up for my birthday party.

We put ours up the weekend closest to 18th December (DD's birthday), although she is married now and has children of her own.

We take them down New Years Day.