Christmas Trees

whimsy515 · November 2014

I'm curious. When will you lovely ladies put up your Christmas trees?

RachelCA29 · November 2014

I put after Thanksgiving but I am Canadian. BUT my birthday is in November and my husband refuses to put our tree up before my birthday. We usually do it that last weekend in November because of that.

bridetobe9132013 · November 2014

I would have had it up November 1st if it was up to me! My DH usually makes me wait until after Thanksgiving but I am going to try and talk him into this or next weekend

kendy20 · November 2014

We've always put it up after Thanksgiving dinner. DH wants to start getting a real one once we move back closer to the west coast and buy our own house, so I'm going to enjoy being able to put it up after Thanksgiving dinner while I can. Once we start buying a real one, it will go up closer to Christmas since I don't have a green thumb and it would probably die before Christmas.

whimsy515 · November 2014

@Chevygrrl91
I miss real trees! I'd get one, but I tend to over do it with lights, that it'd be dried up within a day no matter how much water I'd give it

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mamagerman · November 2014

Closer to Christmas is when we will get one and put it up... Hopefully we will be in our new house by then..

ho11yday · November 2014

Whenever I get around to it. Last year it war up two weeks before Christmas. This year, it'll probably be similar (die to all the little fingers). However bc (before children), it's be up the first week of December. I don't think it helps that I've worked the weekend after thanksgiving for the last several years.

ho11yday · November 2014

Babybarlow2014 said:
I'm trying to convince dh we need a pre-lit tree. I hate putting lights on. I hate taking them off even more.

Ooh I want a prelit tree but love the smell and tradition of picking a live one.i think when my kids are older, I'll probably get a prelit one.

hbird0723 · November 2014

I usually out it up the day after thanksgiving but with it being later and us traveling out of state for Christmas if like to enjoy it before thanksgiving.

lrmrtn · November 2014

We are also going pre-lit. So much easier. I saw a 6 ft one for $40 at Walmart, even though it pains me to go there.

rainbowsockmonkey · November 2014

Babybarlow2014 said:

I'm trying to convince dh we need a pre-lit tree. I hate putting lights on. I hate taking them off even more.

Get a pre lit one. DH and I bought one at a garage sale last fall, and it really nice not having to string up the lights on it. It can be a bit of a pain to find the burned out bulbs, on the branches, but there aren't any bald spots on the tree either.

SurprisePartySue · November 2014

I put SS. We get a real tree so we usually wait till Black Friday. But I think we are going to go to a tree farm and cut one down. If so the. We might get it sooner. Also I have already decorated the house for Christmas. All that is left is the tree.

whimsy515 · November 2014

I have a pre-lit tree, but I still put at least 5 more strands on it. Like I said, I go crazy. I blame Martha Stewart!

Helmink0804 · November 2014

If my DH would let me it would be up already.

britab · November 2014

We won't do one. We are visiting family Dec.19-31. We have a mini fibric optic tree. Just plug er in.

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springbeduk2 · November 2014

Whoa. I had no idea people put up trees before Thanksgiving! I really don't mean any offense - just didn't know. Did your families also put up the tree so early when you were little?

We always bought ours (real) in early December on the way home from watching the town Christmas parade but then kept it out in the shed (cold preserves them) until the early 20s of December then put it up. We would have put it up on Christmas Eve except that's my birthday and my parents always tried to not have it get overwhelmed by Christmas stuff. Anyway ... up a couple-few days before Christmas with plan of taking it down on or weekend after 12th night but often it was up until February or almost. Family of procrastinators and taking off decorations, lights, etc. is so much less fun than putting them on.
We almost definitely won't do a tree this year but if we did I'd want it up no more than a week before Christmas and never down before new year's!

Does anyone still do tree-triming parties? That's another tradition I remember from childhood but haven't noticed people doing since then.

BKD1386 · November 2014

We are super procrastinators... if we're lucky we usually have it up a week before Christmas. X_X

whimsy515 · November 2014

springbeduk2 I have 2 friends who put their tree up weeks ago! I know that a lot of people just want the feeling of Christmas to last and therefore put their trees up early.

My family always did the day after Thanksgiving. The only time I had it up early was last year. I was pregnant, lost my Grandpa, and extremely nostalgic. Having that tree up with the ornaments I grew up with made me happy.

Katzalia · November 2014

I'm planning to get the tree up this weekend or next. I've never done it this early, but we're doing an early Christmas celebration with family from out of town so might as well get on it and enjoy the season.

letal316 · November 2014

athn64 said:
I'm a SS. DH's birthday is in December, so we have to wait until after that. So it tends to go up middle of December, like the 12th or so.

My parents used to do this for me (I'm a December birthday) but I actually love having all the Christmassy stuff around for my birthday, so I put stuff up first weekend of December now.

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