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Who decorates your tree?

melissa0726melissa0726 member
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Do you decorate as a family beforehand?  Or does Santa decorate after everyone goes to bed on Christmas Eve?
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  • WashingtonQueenWashingtonQueen member

    The whole family does. We do our tree right around Thanksgiving.

    I have never heard of Santa decorating the tree.

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  • NativeFloridianNativeFloridian member

    We do it as a family.  I asked Santa to do it for me this year but he was like,

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  • melissa0726melissa0726 member
    imageLalaMama81:

    We do it the weekend after Thanksgiving - we get a real tree, no issues if properly watered. We all decorate it. 

    I think the santa decorating it might be an older tradition? Also people used to do the entire tree right before Christmas, nothing was up until then and they celebrated the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany.  

    Ahhh, that's funny because we actually got the idea from my parents who are "younger" parents, relative to most of the parents of our family and friends.   My parents always set up the tree about two weeks ahead of time and strung the lights to "help" Santa, but that was it.  When we'd wake up Christmas morning, the entire tree would be decorated, the train and village underneath set up, and all the presents put out and stockings filled - all by Santa.  It was SO FUN to wake up and see the transformation on Christmas morning, we're thinking of doing it with our kids ;)

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  • melissa0726melissa0726 member
    imageNativeFloridian:

    We do it as a family.  I asked Santa to do it for me this year but he was like,

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    HAHAHA!

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  • WashingtonQueenWashingtonQueen member
    imagemelissa0726:
    imageLalaMama81:

    We do it the weekend after Thanksgiving - we get a real tree, no issues if properly watered. We all decorate it. 

    I think the santa decorating it might be an older tradition? Also people used to do the entire tree right before Christmas, nothing was up until then and they celebrated the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany.  

    Ahhh, that's funny because we actually got the idea from my parents who are "younger" parents, relative to most of the parents of our family and friends.   My parents always set up the tree about two weeks ahead of time and strung the lights to "help" Santa, but that was it.  When we'd wake up Christmas morning, the entire tree would be decorated, the train and village underneath set up, and all the presents put out and stockings filled - all by Santa.  It was SO FUN to wake up and see the transformation on Christmas morning, we're thinking of doing it with our kids ;)

    Sounds like you had a lot of fun with it! I couldn't do it that way though, I love having everything up for as long as possible :)

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  • ladybugpjbladybugpjb member
    I decorate it soon after Thanksgiving. We didn't do a tree this year since we're moving, but I might let DS help next year. I'm pretty particular about it, though. I don't even trust Santa to decorate it properly.

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  • MrsCase1MrsCase1 member
    I am just now learning of families that decorate the tree on Christmas Eve. This is astonishing to me given the amount of work that goes in to decorating, thinking you'd only get to enjoy the fruits of your labor for a few quick days. I mean, to each her own it just seems like an impossible for task for a mommy!
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  • S-TunaS-Tuna member
    We just decorated part of it tonight. We'll finish tomorrow. We got it over the weekend.
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  • Monsieur_et_Madame_HaMonsieur_et_Madame_Ha member
    We do it as a family, although right now, that pretty much means I do it on my own. DH isn't interested in it at all, and the girls aren't much help. I look forward to the day they they can participate more :)
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  • melissa0726melissa0726 member

    imageMrs Case:
    I am just now learning of families that decorate the tree on Christmas Eve. This is astonishing to me given the amount of work that goes in to decorating, thinking you'd only get to enjoy the fruits of your labor for a few quick days. I mean, to each her own it just seems like an impossible for task for a mommy!

    This is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to continue the tradition, my parents would sometimes be up until 3am playing Santa, and they were hurting on Christmas Day!  FWIW, they did usually keep the tree up for a week longer than most people we know, so we could enjoy it all decorated. 

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  • MrsNoleMrsNole member

    We decorate as a family the day after Thanksgiving.  I have never heard of Santa decorating it Christmas Eve.

     

    imageNativeFloridian:

    We do it as a family.  I asked Santa to do it for me this year but he was like,

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    And this is the best thing I've see all day!

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