When do you put up your Christmas tree?

I guarantee that those who put one up very late don't, won't or can't put much effort into the decorations and the 5 minute effort feels commensurate with the 12 days they have it up for. For those of use that spend 3 full days decorating the house and one full day to remove at the end, we are much more likely to want to get our money's worth for our effort. For instance, the last 2 years I was very late decorating the house due to health reasons. Felt like I was taking the decorations down just after putting them up. All that effort but only 20 days to enjoy the fruits of my labour. This year I'll definitely have them up by the last week of November.

When I was a child, the tree went up around December 22nd/23rd and came down January 4th/5th before we went back to school. Seemed like it was hardly up at all.

Now that I have my own house I put up the tree the first week in December and I really like being able to enjoy it for longer. Plus the cat loves playing with the baubles and watching the twinkly lights and I'd hate to deprive her of that.

Calibos wrote: »

I guarantee that those who put one up very late don't, won't or can't put much effort into the decorations and the 5 minute effort feels commensurate with the 12 days they have it up for. For those of use that spend 3 full days decorating the house and one full day to remove at the end, we are much more likely to want to get our money's worth for our effort. For instance, the last 2 years I was very late decorating the house due to health reasons. Felt like I was taking the decorations down just after putting them up. All that effort but only 20 days to enjoy the fruits of my labour. This year I'll definitely have them up by the last week of November.

Nothing to do with that. I have an eclectic mix of bought hand made decorations, dried orange slices decorated with bows, ribbons, bought cheap decorations, expensive decorations, kids stuff... I take huge pride in putting it all together and making it work. But it's special to me only because it's there for limited amount of time.

Any time after December 1st. The last week of November has a glut of birthdays, and it takes the shine off them if the tree is up.

I love Christmas. My favorite thing about Christmas would nearly be the decorations.
I wouldn't personally put decorations up in November tough. Don't really mind people who do tough.
What I hate tough is when people put up there decorations early and they take them down before the 6th of January.