When do you put up your Christmas tree?

cutiepiexo · 08-11-2015 02:31PM #1

Okay so my family always put ours up the 25th of November each year how early is too early? Surely after November 20th is fine right? If Christmas decorations go up all over Dublin start of November then what's stopping the rest of us? When do you put up your tree?

El Guapo! · 08-11-2015 02:33PM

If you put up your Xmas tree on the 1st November then you're a bellend

Mickeroo · 08-11-2015 02:33PM

10th of December or so. 20th November seems a bit early to me, though at the end of the day I don't really care when other people put their decorations up. Each to their own, and I actually like seeing them anyway.....never really got the whole "FFS Christmas decorations" mindset......I think Christmas is great.....

Captain Chaos · 08-11-2015 02:38PM

Around the 8th-10th Dec and no earlier.

OU812 · 08-11-2015 02:39PM

Someone on my Facebook, put up theirs yesterday.

Was being super critical of them until I found out they only have their kids every two weeks for a weekend.

bee06 · 08-11-2015 02:41PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Around the 8th-10th Dec and no earlier.

Same, I'd be sick of the sight of it if it was up for any longer.

namloc1980 · 08-11-2015 02:41PM

First weekend in December at the earliest.

Sheep Lover · 08-11-2015 02:42PM

26th of December. They are usually really cheap by then.

LordSutch · 08-11-2015 02:43PM

cutiepiexo wrote: »

When do you put up your Christmas tree?

Usually about the 20th-23rd of December . . .

It then stays up until the 6th or 7th of January.

Twelve days of Christmas, and all that.

Crumpets · 08-11-2015 02:43PM

Anytime in December is acceptable in my books

r93kaey5p2izun · 08-11-2015 02:43PM

No more than a week before Christmas, usually the weekend before.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-11-2015 02:45PM

A week before Christmas. Any earlier and it seems like an eternity for the kids waiting on Christmas.

Galwayguy35 · 08-11-2015 02:45PM

Usually around the 20th.

Zebra3 · 08-11-2015 02:48PM

Not a christian, so don't put a xmas tree up.

wakka12 · 08-11-2015 02:49PM

My birthdays 9th December so we always put them up on the day. Which is nice, I don't care about my birthday ever so I look forward to the day because of the decorations.

acon2119 · 08-11-2015 02:56PM

Two weeks before Christmas. The novelty would have worn off a bit if I put it up any earlier. But each to their own.

Amirani · 08-11-2015 03:00PM

Going away for Christmas this year so probably won't put one up.

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-11-2015 03:06PM

cutiepiexo wrote: »

Okay so my family always put ours up the 25th of November each year how early is too early? Surely after November 20th is fine right? If Christmas decorations go up all over Dublin start of November then what's stopping the rest of us? When do you put up your tree?

You should be asking "Who should be stopping them from doing that?".

I don't put up a Christmas tree. I have an artificial one upstairs but I haven't used it in over 10 years. I don't both with any decorations.

Pherekydes · 08-11-2015 03:40PM

When the wife tells me to...

Knine · 08-11-2015 03:45PM

Mine goes up in time for the Late Late Show. One of my little ladies has a very serious disability. Every Christmas she gets to is very special. Plus the threat of Santy is watching sends her promptly in the required direction.

endacl · 08-11-2015 03:49PM

Knine wrote: »

Mine goes up in time for the Late Late Show.

Every Friday? Seems a bit much.

WoollyRedHat · 08-11-2015 03:52PM

I dress up as the Christmas tree. That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight.

LDN_Irish · 08-11-2015 04:00PM

When I finally get sick of the insinuations that our lack of a tree is robbing my children of an enjoyable Christmas.

Ghost Buster · 08-11-2015 04:03PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Usually about the 20th-23rd of December . . .

It then stays up until the 6th or 7th of January.

Twelve days of Christmas, and all that.

Same as. generally a week before 25th but it depends on when I get time off. I just find youre sick of the dust catching buggers if theyre up too early.

Menas · 08-11-2015 04:05PM

We get a real one every year, but if we get it too early then it looks dead and sheds by the time christmas day comes.
So best to get one around two weeks before the big day.

cutiepiexo · 08-11-2015 04:07PM

Sometimes I think its better to have it up early so you can enjoy the tree I mean its a shame if you go to so much trouble to decorate it for hours untangle all those blastin lights etc then only have it up for 2 weeks. I like to enjoy the tree up for as long as possible

SCOOP 64 · 08-11-2015 04:13PM

No earlier then December should be the rule.

08-11-2015 04:14PM

I don't. Bah humbug.

P_1 · 08-11-2015 04:14PM

I never put one up, too much hassle taking it down again

sonic85 · 08-11-2015 04:19PM

im gonna take mine down from the attic in a couple of weeks time and they'll be up in the last week of this month hopefully. I love Christmas and if I had my way the decorations would be up now!

I love coming home from work in the evenings and plugging in the lights - these nights are dark gloomy and depressing and the lights brighten up the place nicely! its the small things

meeeeh · 08-11-2015 04:32PM

Menas wrote: »

We get a real one every year, but if we get it too early then it looks dead and sheds by the time christmas day comes.
So best to get one around two weeks before the big day.

This. I remember himself arriving home with a tree. He was very happy with the price he got it for. It was shedding when we were putting it in and two days after christmas it had to be removed because there were basically no needles left. Since then we always make sure we get a nonshedding one. They are brilliant.

I like the look of the tree, I make effort with decorations but it's never up before 15th and it's down by fourth of January.

When do you put up your Christmas tree?

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