It would appear all of Facebook look at me land has the tree up. Managed to hold out till next weekend for the annual tree culling as my mate who always comes with us is working this weekend. Now, where did we put the lights during the renovation mayhem.....
Got our fake tree up in the kitchen and bought the real tree yesterday but it's not going up until next weekend.
That's pretty organised for us!
Next week 🙁
We have due to the hospice we always buy from having their Xmas fair ridiculously early , nice real one chosen as it was thin so should allow some space in the room.
I predict needle drop and a fruitless hunt for another 2 days before xmas
EDIT: Scrap that, funnier by text.
Daughter is having friends sleep over in the living room for her birthday on 17th, so the tree can't go up till after then.
Lights went in the window today though. 🙄
Ours is up.
In the attic.
Next weekend for us - the missus was concerned about needle drop.
# first world issues.com!
lights on the front of the house and ornaments on the front lawn so far. Tree next week.
Real tree for the first year in a few, but wrightyson has probs seen it on FB 😉
Smells lovely
Nipped out to wharnecliffe for an hour, came back and mrs nosedive and the kids had the tree up. Watched Elf. Classic. Its beginniing to look a lot like Christmas
All done, my wife insists on it being the first week in December.... Oh and it's on fb too yay me....
No.
^^^^^^ Grinch
There's 3 weeks to go, it'll go up next week.
To be fair mine would be xmas eve if it was left to me
Christmas eve would be my choice. Kids have chosen the 22nd though, so that's fine too.
Ours is usually the weekend before Xmas, so probably 17th/18th this year.
Ours is up, I'd have happily waited a week, but kids wanted it. Is in a holder which has water in and the tree is usually still fine when it gets taken down on 6th Jan, so not at all worried about early needle drop.
12 nights before here, probably the last on the street to go up.....
Plastic fantastic is up, just done this evening. Would have left for another week if I'd had my way but SWMBO is christmas mad 🙄
around the 18th ish here.
Nope, doesn't go up until after my birthday..
The missus opined for last weekend but I said "No chance, you know it's always the first weekend in December. End of." So yesterday monkey jnr and I spent an hour faffing with the decorations. Job done. Happy with it.
Ours is still in the box but in the conservatory, It'll come out of the box maybe next weekend at the earliest. It only came out of the loft cos I went up for something else anyway.
It would stay in the loft (or down the tip) if it was up to me. 😡
For a thread about Christmas trees, there seems to be a lack of photos. OK, it's not as bad as a puppy thread without puppy pictures, but it's still pretty bad form.
For the record, I don't have mine up yet.
Two real ones went up in our house this weekend. Mrs loves doing them.
Got 4 generations staying over Christmas, and with next weekend being taken up with other stuff, needed to get that job out of the way.
Done. Uni deadlines coming up so working next few weekends. Got my Christmas jumper sorted too.
[img] 
[/img]
Work shall rue the day they asked us to "wear a festive sweater"
We both finish work on the 16th, so tree will go up then. Hopefully the wood burner will be ready by then so we can do mulled wine & chestnuts on it whilst the tree is done 🙂
Ours goes up on the weekend before the kids' last week at school, so next week.
Tree was up on the 1st
All presents are bought
8)
Hell No.
Christmas is the christianisation of the pagan festival of Yule; the passing of the Winter Solstice.
You can't celebrate that until the actual winter solstice.
Our tree won't go up until the 21st, or reasonably soon thereafter.
A neighbour of mine had theirs up in November.
No Words.
Tree was up on the 1st
the 37 days of christmas 😯
But my own petty judgement aside I'#m interested.
Those whose tree is up... When does it come down?
Next weekend for us, I'm not allowed to touch it once it's in position which suits me.
I recently read we're all doing it 'wrong' in the UK, you're supposed to put them up Xmas Eve and take them down on the 12th night or something. I wouldn't mind waiting till Xmas Eve but ours is gone by bedtime on the 27th and it seems like a lot of faf for 3 days.
I do tend to think people are dragging it out if they're still bleating on about it after the 27th, but if they're still talking about it in the new year they're out of their tiny mind.
As mentioned above, 6th Jan.
Ours usually comes down just after new year. Yes tradition is 6th Jan but who really cares.
Not decided on what this years tree will be yet.
Usually starts getting gradully pruned and fed to the logburner a couple of days after Christmas.
As usual no tree, and very little christmas, too damm hot to have a tree wither and die slowly inside. I assume my brother will be breaking out his Christmas jumper and festive CD's if they havn't been in circulation for the last 3 weeks.
Not particularly anti the whole thing but it's not a month long festival 🙂 Was a great excuse to get together with the whole family but this year will be a skype call again.
Also nothing looks more ridiculous than trying to replicate a Northern european winter scene with clear blue skies and 30c.
Ours goes up xmas eve, that's our tradition, generally down shortly before or after new year.
Christmas is a good time, not a long time.
Ours is up as are the decs. Want to enjoy it for as long as possible the better side of Christmas and then comes down before we go back to work.
Ours is up as of yesterday. Watching my 2 year old decorate the tree was brilliant, she was so excited about hanging the decorations on her 'Santa' tree.
Yup, ours went up on Saturday.
I would normally either not bother with a tree (because I try to spend Christmas away from home), or put it up as late as possible, probably the weekend before Christmas. However, my girlfriend really loves Christmas, so it is up and the weekend has been spent doing Christmas stuff.
It's actually been quite nice, like being a kid again.
No Words.
I have. Lighten up :-).
Yep.
8 footer in the lounge, 6 footer in the living room, 6 footer in the hall, 3 footer in the dining room, 3 more 3 footers in each of the kids rooms. That's 26 feet* of Christmas trees.
's a Christmas forest. Panthers love a forest. 🙂
*excludes little plug-in fibreoptic trees
It was certainly tradition in Scotland to leave the tree up until after New Year - and that still seems to be most common. Remember, Xmas was never as big a festival as Hogmanay.
Our xmas tree went up on Satuday afternoon.
Wife and both kids got stuck in. I went out and walked the dogs! I'm not bah humbug, but CBA with the faff...
Given how things change I can anticipate a time when people put their trees up in November, and take them down mid December.
Ours always comes down on New Years Day, then the following weekend I burn it in the garden. Pine trees that have been indoors for a few weeks burn brilliantly! Stand it in an oil drum for maximum column-of-flame effect.
I grew up in a strict 'up on the 24th, down on jan 6th' house.
wife is always keen to get a tree up in early Dec. We compromise somewhere in the middle....
Life's little pleasures.
All the lights off apart from the xmas tree and the other fairy lights around the room.
Good whisky by my side.
Xmas film on the tv.
Good times.