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When is too early?

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  • #62
    ene
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭ene


    i feel i waited long enough!

    only 47 sleeps to go


  • #63
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,901 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Posy wrote: »
    Definitely!
    I'm going to wait until we get a second tree in here though. :)
    We've got it!!!


  • #64
    kitten_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    So had planned to put mine up the last Saturday night in November but heard today that my Aunts birthday party is on that night.

    So just need to decide if it goes up the Saturday before now or the Saturday after.


  • #65
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I want to get a real tree this year so I'm thinking of waiting till mid December, I'm afraid of it starting to wither, I need it looking good up until New Years for a party I'm planning.


  • #66
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 26,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Posy wrote: »
    We've got it!!!

    Waiting for the thread here :P


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  • #67
    Loughc
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    My neighbour has their decorations up since yesterday! It's not too early for them!

    I'm still waiting until the end of the month to do it. I love christmas but the decorations lose their spark if they are left up too long.

    Not too early to go decorations shopping though ;)


  • #68
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Our tree usually goes up first couple of days of December, might even push it to 30th November this year the way the weekend falls. As usual, it will have way too many lights, tinsel and decorations. Nothing even the slightest bit classy about our tree and I love it.


  • #69
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 26,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    As usual, it will have way too many lights, tinsel and decorations. Nothing even the slightest bit classy about our tree and I love it.

    They are the BEST kind of trees though :D


  • #70
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,770 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    I love Christmas.

    I get all the presents sorted early so I can soak up the atmosphere in town when the decorations are up and everything is in full Christmas swing.

    But I try to avoid it until after the 8th of December or after because it makes the short time it's there all that bit more special to me.

    I don't want decorations and the tree to have blended in with everything else by the time it gets to the last week or two before Christmas.


  • #71
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    Our tree usually goes up first couple of days of December, might even push it to 30th November this year the way the weekend falls. As usual, it will have way too many lights, tinsel and decorations. Nothing even the slightest bit classy about our tree and I love it.

    No such thing as too many lights!! :D


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  • #72
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    I'm thinking toy show in the back ground, and us putting up the tree will be nice..

    Plenty of time to get into the spirit that way before it all has to come down..


  • #73
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,428 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Must plan my day off for the 28th now - get up early and do a big clean of the house from top to bottom, then get the decs down from the attic and start making the house look like Christmas threw up on it :pac:


  • #74
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 26,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    leahyl wrote: »
    Must plan my day off for the 28th now - get up early and do a big clean of the house from top to bottom, then get the decs down from the attic and start making the house look like Christmas threw up on it :pac:


    Hey that's my plan! :pac:

    Along with sampling McDonald's Festive Menu and buckets and buckets of sweets and treats haha!


  • #75
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    For us, the first weekend in December is normally christmas tree weekend. We usually make a big deal of it, bring the doggies for a long walk, go have lunch, go to the newbridge silver shop to choose one new decoration then pick up a tree on the way home. Light a big fire, put on some Christmassy songs, open some wine and put the tree up then order a takeaway. Not sure how it'll happen this year though, maybe we will develop some new traditions :) definitely will have to get a fake tree this year anyway.

    Anything before December I would worry we would get fed up of the tree before Christmas. I resist doing anything Christmassy until that weekend then throw myself into the thick of it. Can't wait!


  • #76
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,428 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Whispered wrote: »
    For us, the first weekend in December is normally christmas tree weekend. We usually make a big deal of it, bring the doggies for a long walk, go have lunch, go to the newbridge silver shop to choose one new decoration then pick up a tree on the way home. Light a big fire, put on some Christmassy songs, open some wine and put the tree up then order a takeaway. Not sure how it'll happen this year though, maybe we will develop some new traditions :) definitely will have to get a fake tree this year anyway.

    Anything before December I would worry we would get fed up of the tree before Christmas. I resist doing anything Christmassy until that weekend then throw myself into the thick of it. Can't wait!

    But you're "doing something Christmassy" by being on here talking about it ;):p


  • #77
    Whispered
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    leahyl wrote: »
    But you're "doing something Christmassy" by being on here talking about it ;):p

    Eh yeah, but I'm not in my fluffy Christmas socks so it doesn't count :D


  • #78
    Loughc
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    Whispered wrote: »
    Eh yeah, but I'm not in my fluffy Christmas socks so it doesn't count :D

    You're not!! Yea me neither :O


  • #79
    Whispered
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    Loughc wrote: »
    You're not!! Yea me neither :O

    Yep and I bet you don't have a rudolf onesie on under your clothes either ;)


  • #80
    rsl1976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭rsl1976


    I will start decorating this day 2 weeks. Can't wait :)


  • #81
    Awkward Author
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Awkward Author


    never, never, never. It's never too early for christmas.


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  • #82
    Beaner1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 819 ✭✭✭Beaner1


    Now is too early.


  • #83
    cherryghost
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    Wife wants it up this weekend which breaks my 'put it up when the Toy show is on' tradition. I'm at wits end telling her its too damn early but I'm giving in and getting on with my life :/


  • #84
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,428 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    People are really eager this year to get the decorations up! I'm kind of hyperventilating a bit now cos I'm not ready and it's only 2 weeks away! :eek::pac:


  • #85
    Loughc
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    leahyl wrote: »
    People are really eager this year to get the decorations up! I'm kind of hyperventilating a bit now cos I'm not ready and it's only 2 weeks away! :eek::pac:


    Doing some decorations shopping this weekend, 2 weeks away for me as well. Need to do a serious clean first.... fml... haha.


  • #86
    rsl1976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭rsl1976


    Bought some new decorations today. Small bit of painting to do and I can't wait for the Toy Show so it's going up next weekend :)


  • #87
    kitten_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Gave the house a good clean today to get it ready for the deccies to go up next weekend.


  • #88
    Broken Strings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Broken Strings


    First one finally up today :D

    And I'll do it all again in the kitchen tomorrow! Tinsel and coloured lights galore! The cheesier the better :p


  • #89
    Deenie123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    Couple of decorations appearing around the house here...

    Got this today:

    http://www.homestoreandmore.ie/home-decorations/led-village-train-scene-with-moving-train/invt/060222


  • #90
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


    Gawd I am dying for the 28th to come around. Myself and my bf are getting a take away, watching the toy show, with some beers and I will decorate the house during the day so it shall be all nice and Christmassy for the toy show that night. I can't wait for it.

    I'n dying to pull out the decorations now though and start going through them so I can decide what will go where.

    I have these lights and a very small Xmas tree that sits on a small table and was thinking of putting these lights on the wall behind it, in the porch? I dunno though, some days I think it'll look nice, then other times I think it'll look tacky.


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  • #91
    Alicat
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    No one in this forum will ever tell you that something is too tacky! :D


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