Anyone have the Christmas Tree up yet?

Galwayguy35

Usually put it up around the 8th myself.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Around the 15th to 18th for me. The garden lights will be turned on earlier though.

Edgware

I put it up last night. Ooooh Vicar!

cbyrd

Put the small one up in the kitchen on Monday, the real tree is bought, drying out in the hall ready to be put in the sitting room and decorated tomorrow..
I'd put it up in July if I was let. Started playing Christmas music on November 1st though, just cos

SEPT 23 1989

Get the big net out some of the inmates of the Christmas forum have escaped

hatrickpatrick

The 8th is a standard date myself and my friends were always told as kids, but I'm not sure where it originates from or what the thinking is behind it - I suspect it's related to how long a tree can realistically maintain its shape before the branches begin to droop? If there's no practical reason like this behind it, I'd have thought the first weekend of advent would make more sense.

EDIT: Also, when we were kids the "tree with a water bucket for it to drink from" type of tree stand was pretty much unheard of, so perhaps with this now being standard, trees are able to maintain their firmness for longer? I have no idea if a water supply is related to how long it takes for the branches to get all droopy and forlorn looking, but it would make some kind of sense if that was a factor.

mad muffin

No

buried

Don't put up a tree myself, I lucky to got one of them ancient open oven fireplaces in the living room of the gaff I have. Few lights and candles about the place, I got the warm Christmas vibe going down all goddamn Winter ya'll

mad muffin

Fücking

mad muffin

Way

mad muffin

buried wrote: »

Don't put up a tree myself, I lucky to got one of them ancient open oven fireplaces in the living room of the gaff I have. Few lights and candles about the place, I got the warm Christmas vibe going down all goddamn Winter ya'll

Why you mess up ma follow motherfücka??

buried

mad muffin wrote: »

Why you mess up ma follow motherfücka??

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit sorry cuz

Toots

I've had mine up since the weekend. I put up the outdoor lights this evening

mad muffin

buried wrote: »

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit sorry cuz

It’s all curry bruv

EmptyTree

Wait for the neighbours to put up theirs and every time I want to look at a Christmas tree I open the curtains

JohnnyFlash

Never took it down.

Probably won't put mine up until about the 14th. Will decorate before that though.

Signore Fancy Pants

Up on 08th, down on 26th.

TomSweeney

I have rule that no Christmas decorations are to be put up before December.
And traditionally I put them up on Dec. 8th.
But the kids now pressure me , so I cave and put them up around 1/2 December - but never in November .. that's crazy.

I remember actually one year my Grandad left the tree up till the end of February ... lights on every evening too!!

Fordcspri23

Wait till 20th December anyway, anyone with trees up need to address their premature ejaculation.

Pinch Flat

Considering advent hasn’t started nope

OldMrBrennan83

I'll do it around the 10th to the 15th. Probably pointless because I spend as much of Christmas away from this house as possible but the Mrs likes the decorations.

buried

Chewbacca wrote: »

Up on 08th, down on 26th.

Proper job. I try regiment my drink and general disaster behaviour to that same calendar regiment too

Haven't taken it down since 1996. Will unwrap it from its 11 month clingfilm cocoon next week.

railer201

Started playing Christmas FM today - waiting for the brain washing effect to kick in, then it's all systems go including the tree. Expecting to hear Noddy shortly with his raspy voice .........It's Christmas Time !

MadDog76

Up since last Sunday, house is fully decorated too........ anybody who doesn't have their tree up before the Toy Show is a f#cking degenerate low life scumbag who deserves daily kicking in the crotch area...... in my opinion. Happy Christmas!

I usually am adamant about December, maybe a week in, but maybe before the toy show this year, so tomorrow

Toots

Usually we'd be the 1st of December, or if that fell on a weekday, then the first weekend of December (my trade off for having to have a fake tree is at least I get to put it up earlier) But my husband is away the first weekend of December this year, and we've stuff on every other weekend between now and Christmas, so last weekend it had to be.

eviltwin

Doing it all tomorrow, toy show night is our official start of silly season.

Noveight

Up the 8th, down soon enough after New Years.

Anyone wishing people a Merry Christmas in November would want a word with themselves.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r

Every year without fail on the night of the toy show, my mam insist on putting the tree up. I’m the female Scrooge. Honestly. I like being around the family and whatnot for Xmas but Jaysis the whole decrating business infuriates me at times. I would gladly have Xmas without the whole hog of the decrorations but birthdays my Jaysis I’ll go all out for that.

Woke Hogan

Not until the 8th of December. I will bring in a tree from my own yard, rather than get one of those planet-killing plastic trees.

OldMrBrennan83

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Not until the 8th of December. I will bring in a tree from my own yard, rather than get one of those planet-killing plastic trees.

But needles everywhere. That's worth letting the planet due to avoid.

Atoms for Peace

The only trees I want to see are palm trees as I'm going to the people's paradise of comunist Cuba to avoid the whole thing.

Woke Hogan

Patww79 wrote: »

But needles everywhere. That's worth letting the planet due to avoid.

It's a small price to pay not to be complicit in the ecological gangrape of our planet.

MadDog76

Ah get over yourself, earth was already broken when we got here....

Jessie Belle

My house is so lit up tonight Im a little nervous a plane is going to try to land in the front garden.

Try_harder

No

branie2

Not yet

Witchie

Yes.

I live in Malaysia but going home for Christmas in just over a week so wanted to get my apartment festive here. Having a small Christmas party this Sunday so felt it needed to be up.

BuboBubo

Like some previous posters on here, I usually put mine up on the 8th-ish.

It comes down after new years day, around the 2nd or 3rd of January. I'm not a fan of Christmas but I like the time off work. Child-free house here, and I cannot imagine having to sit through that torturous "Toy Show".

JupiterKid

Nope. First week of December and no earlier. Taken down on Jan 7th.

There should be a law against putting up your tree and decorations before December 1st.

NIMAN

Its November.

Tipptatlers

A lot of people posting need to have a good word with themselves. Missus wants it up etc. Grow a set of balls.

Oink

The wife hasn’t threatened to take the kids and go back to her mother yet, so no. No tree.

OldMrBrennan83

Tipptatlers wrote: »

A lot of people posting need to have a good word with themselves. Missus wants it up etc. Grow a set of balls.

I like my wife though.

ectoraige

We have a two-stage operation in our house, The Toy Show marks stage one where we'll put up a few decorations and a small tree. The big tree won't go up until about two weekends before Christmas, so around the 14th/15th this year, along with the rest of the decorations and things like tablecloths etc.

RayCon

There's 12 days of Christmas ... none of them are in Nov.

RobbieTheRobber

RayCon wrote: »

There's 12 days of Christmas ... none of them are in Nov.

Yes five of them are in January and the first day of the twelve is the 25th of december. Is that when you put your tree up?

Edgware

Tipptatlers wrote: »

A lot of people posting need to have a good word with themselves. Missus wants it up etc. Grow a set of balls.

Its nice that the Missus wants it up especially at Christmas

PlaneSpeeking

Edgware wrote: »

Its nice that the Missus wants it up especially at Christmas

Bless the once a year crowd!!!!! ;););)