When Should You Put Up Your Tree ?

[johnny.5]

I know i should be traditionally Christmas eve , but when is acceptable ?
ie not too early , but not last in the street late

[Tilly2]

When you have an hour or two to spare in December.

[EDDIE51]

Christmas eve never sooner!

[ubasses]

Always on Christmas Eve.

[Tilly2]

Too much to do on Christmas Eve.......do it a bit sooner.

[Prudie]

If I have one usually about the 17th. In town today the usual area where they sell tress was being set up, grotto built etc etc

[woofgang]

around mid december except this year I am not having an indoor one

[campbellking]

Not too late otherwise the cats won't have enough opportunities to play with baubles...

[Captain2]

When I'm told to get the tree out of the garage and the 5 boxes of decorations from the loft so that this year's colour design can be worked on. For me, the later the better.

[Tilly2]

I am only putting up a tree because we have visitors for Christmas.

I hate dressing the Christmas Tree, even though it does look lovely when it's done.

[Buenchico]

Traditionally, you should put your Christmas tree up on Christmas Eve:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Setting_up_and_taking_down
'When I were but a nipper' my mother would be furious if she saw that people had put their Christmas trees up before then, denigrating them with the most vicious word in her armoury: "Common!"

Our local church (where you might think that they'd know a thing or two about Christmas) has already got it's illuminated tree outside but otherwise the timeline seems to be as follows:

Before mid-November: Stores and shopping centres only.

Mid-November: Essex girls and chavs, plus pubs with regular karaoke nights and giant Sky Sports screens. (Or, as my mother would have described all of them, "Common, the whole lot of them!")

End of November/Beginning of December: Most other pubs, plus families with young children.

Mid-December: Most other households.

Christmas Eve: The 'county set' and a few other staunch traditionalists.

Boxing Day: Me! (Well that's when I usually get around to putting my tiny plastic tree, with its battery-powered fibre optic lights, onto my desk anyway)

;-)

[Baldric]

Go on, do it now, you know you want to!

[anneasquith]

Week before christmas day. Or two weeks if you have children. Certainly not in November. :'(

[-SharonA-]

Weekend of the 12th is early enough. That is when mine is going up!!

[bodeker]

My mother was German and we always put the up on Christmas eve but as we got older it became at least 2 weeks before as we had other things to do.

[diddlydo]

Don't bother - what's the point? And don't call me Scrooge or say bah-humbag. Unless you're a committed christian, Christmas is nothing.

[DaisyNonna]

Hopefully away for Christmas so tree probably about 12th

[Mamyalynne]

I wouldn't call anyone a Scrooge or tell them whether they should 'do' Christmas - just do your own thing.


Hope you have a nice time away Daisy.

[woofgang]

diddlydo, as anyone could tell you, Christmas predates Christianity...and according to the good Doctor is not limited to earth
From Dr Who’s Christmas Carol
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, “Well done. Well done, everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.” Back on Earth we call this Christmas. Or the Winter Solstice. On this world, the first settlers called it The Crystal Feast. "

[Answerprancer]

I shall be putting mine up on Yule :-)

[douglas9401]

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me

All the shiny tat from the loft and a lifeless plastic tree to celebrate the arrival of the son of god to a virgin, no, really, a virgin, how gullible were these desert dwellers?