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When should the Xmas decorations go up?

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    #32
    lawred2
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    Early December until about 27th December

    Can't stand seeing decorations around new years...


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    #33
    Barry Badrinath
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    ardinn wrote: »
    Is it not standard they go up on the 6th Dec and down on the 6th Jan?

    Thats what I always understood anyway!

    For normal people.

    There are some lunatics that have then up a week at this stage and take them down in Feb.

    Probably some of them here.


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    #34
    The flying mouse
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    There is a house on a very main road in Dublin that has them up & switched on since 1st November.


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    #35
    Estrellita
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    mansize wrote:
    Premature Decoration... the decorations were tacky and garish

    These two things go hand in hand. A few head-bangers living nearby put up their decorations on the 12th of November, and the decorations are completely classless. Cheap, tacky, and make you wince when you pass.

    One of the uniform decorations for these types are the chaser lights flashing so rapidly and brightly that you'd be worried for a passing epileptic. These houses don't look Christmassy, they look more like a game show set.

    I put up the tree etc shortly before the children's Christmas holidays from school begin. You don't want to wear the s.hit out of it.


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    #36
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #37
    rafatoni
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    Put them up christmas eve and take them down on Stephens day ;)


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    #38
    punisher5112
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    mansize wrote: »
    Just turn off the lights? Laziness...

    I've seen lights never switched off all year round.

    Lots of pubs doing this also.


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    #39
    nice_guy80
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    I would have been staunchly for December 8th.

    Meh

    Go to America and they don't put anything up until mid December


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    #40
    lertsnim
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    I couldn't care less when people put them up. It's the Christmas songs being played in shops that bothers me.


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    #41
    Wanderer78
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    mansize wrote:
    So when's the right time to put up your (externally visible) Xmas Decs?


    Christmas morning, to be taken down later that day, and everybody sent back to work. Bah humbug!


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    #42
    Sinbad311
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    Wife and kids putting them up at the moment... I know in our house we put them up early for the kids where as before we would wait till mid December. Usually take them down 1st week in January..


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    #43
    kronnn
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    Why not act like an adult and put them up when you want to and don't obsess about what other people think.


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    #44
    crossmolinalad
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    We put it up in the first weekend of Dec and take the stuf away around the 6th of Jan
    Know people who put the stuff up two days before Christmas and take everything away after the Christmas dinner


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    #45
    average_runner
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    crossmolinalad wrote: »
    We put it up in the first weekend of Dec and take the stuf away around the 6th of Jan
    Know people who put the stuff up two days before Christmas and take everything away after the Christmas dinner

    We just bought a second 6ft tree. No idea where we will put it or what we were thinking. Marks had 50% off them and extra 15% for new account. Put them up on the first and down on new years day


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    #46
    mansize
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    1st Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar today.

    My sister puts hers up today.


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    #47
    [Deleted User]
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    We aren't putting up any :( Perhaps a bit of holly about the place. I am trying to like Christmas but not even an auld tree is being put up so it's hard to get in to the spirit of it.


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    #48
    Irish_rat
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    A couple of doors down from me they have them up with all the snow stuff stuck to the window. Lights on all over the house.

    A bit cringe!


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    #49
    Dr Crayfish
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    My first Xmas in my own house. I wont be putting any up :)


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    #50
    [Deleted User]
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    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    My first Xmas in my own house. I wont be putting any up :)

    Congrats on your new house :)


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    #51
    mansize
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    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    My first Xmas in my own house. I wont be putting any up :)

    That was me 4 years ago! Congrats!


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    #52
    LordSutch
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    I opted for the 8th-14th of December, although my parents would have said the 15th-24th December.

    Any date before the 1st of December is far too early, (seeing as Christmas starts on the 25th).


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    #53
    TheRiverman
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Why not just never take them down seems to work in town.


    Why not just never put them up,which for me would also seem to work:)


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    #54
    Aineoil
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    When our son was a wee little lad we would put him to bed at around 7 o' clock on Christmas Eve and spend the best part

    of the night putting up the Christmas decorations. I know it sounds a bit mad, but the look on his face Christmas morning

    was worth the effort because we all know that Santa has magic that can transform a house overnight.

    One Christmas I think I overdid it. I shook out baby powder and in it put the imprint of the sole of a wellington boot in it,

    so that it looked like a Santa footprint. I think he was around five or six at the the time. I remember he wasn't impressed

    that a strange man was in our house leaving footprints.


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    #55
    MadDog76
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    Nah, move it to the Christmas forum instead and watch the fireworks that ensue :pac:

    There's already a similar thread in the Christmas Forum ........... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057672192

    Our tree/decorations went up yesterday and not a minute too soon in my opinion!


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    #56
    MadDog76
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    We aren't putting up any :( Perhaps a bit of holly about the place. I am trying to like Christmas but not even an auld tree is being put up so it's hard to get in to the spirit of it.

    Why aren't you putting up decorations Perse?


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    #57
    Lucyfur
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    Mine is going up on Friday for the toy show :D


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    #58
    The Raptor
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    The 12th of never.


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    #59
    pauliebdub
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    8th of December usually. Much too early to put them up now, some of my neighbours already have.


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    #60
    zcorpian88
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    They go up on Toy Show night in my house usually, or at least the weekend it's on.

    I know people that put theirs up over a fortnight ago! And I'm increasingly seeing this as the years go by, was walking home from the gym about 2 weeks ago and walked by a few houses and seen a tree and Christmas lights all over the living room. Wasn't even Mid November ffs!

    When I rise to power these people will be sterilized!


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    #61
    coffee_cake
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    First weekend of december I reckon


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