When are you putting up your Christmas tree?

I usually wait until December, but with all the crap & sadness that's gone on this year, I'm thinking of putting it up this weekend.

It's just a small artificial tree, so no biggie.

No more trees. Kitty Lou would have it down in two minutes.

It will probably be some time next weekend, after Thanksgiving.

It's been up for 2 weeks.

I don't do a tree, but since it was warm I decorated outside today, it looks awesome. I don't do Christmas.

Never again. I only ever did it for family members who enjoyed it and they're all gone now. Same with the gifts, cards, stockings, baking cookies, preparing the dinner -- all a big chore that I dreaded every year and I'm so relieved to be done with it forever. Thanksgiving too!

Now if only I could figure out how to avoid that godawful music everywhere!

I put it up in mid-March when the COVID stay at home orders started. It's been up since then.

I bought a small (3 feet tall) artificial tree with lights three years ago. I put it up in my living room and it has been there ever since, without lights out of season. It's complementary to the decor. I plugged the lights in two weeks ago.

R2, my cat was a kitten last year and I couldn’t put up an artificial tree because she was trying to gnaw on the fake branches and I was afraid she’d hurt herself. This year I guess I’m putting up the fake blue tree, hopefully she’ll understand that’s not real tree branches.

Last year I went to Costco and got a green wreath and hung it on a short wrought iron plant stand so it was near the ground. She liked smelling it and it was real branches. You could try real wreaths and greenery, she can’t do much to that. Instead of using breakables, try using ribbons or plastic bead garland. Or candy canes. If she bites one of those it won’t hurt her and she’ll hate the taste. One should do it.

Probably none this year. Spending what I would on presents and crap on an iwatch and iPad.

I am thinking about putting it up tomorrow along with my Christmas lights. Usually I do it the day after Thanksgiving.

Out of respect for Thanksgiving, I’ll wait until next weekend.

Maybe never if my asshole wet blanket of a partner has anything to say about it. Well, fuck him, I'll do it myself.

Our (artificial) tree has been up for many years. We tell people that we like to keep the spirit of Xmas all year 'round, but actually we're just too lazy to take it down and set it up every year.

It's been up for two weeks...even though I don't believe in God and live alone.

Put it up the Saturday Biden won. Time to celebrate.

We put one up today! The lights are cheery this dark time of year.

Mine are already up. I had time and I’m having people over for Thanksgiving dinner. I have one in the entry, one in the living room, and one in the formal dining.

I normally put my artificial tree up about 7-10 days before Christmas and put in down soon just after New Years Day. I don't get those who have it up for almost two months.

I am putting up my Christmas tree the first week of December.

r16 are you me? I put mine up the same day, for the same reason

r18 is a jackass. Enjoy Covid, bitch.

I am not dragging out tree decorations. It is just me and the partner. A couple of relatives may visit. Just adults. I will have a few poinsettias, the lighted ceramic Christmas tree, and a couple of seasonal, dried table arrangements, stuffed stockings for the fireplace mantle, and candles to light.

As I type.

I dragged mine up and am busy shooing the cats away right now!

Day after Thanksgiving

R22 - Our community has a very low Covid rate, and we will be opening windows for circulation, while burning the fireplaces for heat.

i've been getting a live tree the past 5 years or so. i like to wait a little longer so the tree doesn't dry out so fast.

You people are insane. I was too lazy to put it up in the last two years but when I do decide to drag it out of the basement I never do it more than 5 or so days before Xmas. I'd grow tired of looking at it by the time Xmas came if I had it up since mid-November.

That's why I often take mine down between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, R29.

Goes up the day after Thanksgiving, gets taken down on Epiphany.

I don't decorate, but I do listen to Christmas music.

Everyone put up a tree! Time for Christmas cheer more than ever - and a good time too!

November 2021

I don’t celebrate and live in a small apartment

One of the only things about COVID that I'm grateful for is the lack of holidays. The holidays still happen of course but they don't dominate society in the way that they did pre-COVID. Hopefully one of the lasting effects of this period in history is the death of the hysteria around Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.

Years ago you used to be able to send away a photo & they’d make it into a poster for you. I’d like to send away a photo of my Christmas tree, have it turned into a poster and just put in on my wall. I have a good pic from 2013 or 2014.

I have a short video of my Christmas tree. Can I get a small projector, put it on a loop and show it on my wall?

I’d like to get a new camera. I have two nice cameras that don’t work. One refuses to accept a card & just pushes it out no matter what. The other accepts a card but gives an error message. Bought all kinds of SD cards, none work.

Anyone know a good camera that would be good at taking a video of Christmas lights in my town? My iPhone camera SUCKS. The whole village really looks nice at Christmas and I’d like to take a full video while my husband drives the car.

I usually wait until the day after thanksgiving but after this shitty year I decided to put my tree up early. It’s been out for 3 weeks.

I will finish the outdoor decor this weekend.

I love the lights and I have a beautiful tree.

The weekend following Thanksgiving. I like to get it up earlier. It's so much work, we want to enjoy it awhile.

I've put three of my four trees up so far. The last one is placed in our living room at the front of the house, visible from the street, and that'll wait till the day after Thanksgiving.

^ Put a sparkly M, A, R, and Y on top of them.

^I'll be sure to, cunt.

I just bought my tree today and plan on putting it up within the next few days.

Or R44, put C, U, N, T if the mood strikes, as I would expect. Sparkly and odorous of course.

This thread has inspired me to put my tree today! We need some Xmas cheer and some pretty lights to look at.

Fuck this year has been terrible.

Never. There is no such thing as "Christmas cheer." One of the unintended benefits of covid will be decreased exposure to the horrible music. Now if only the Salvation Army bellringers will be sheltering in some place that's not my local supermarket. I hate the entire frauiday month of December.

I normally put up a 9-12 foot natural tree with about 4,000 lights on it. But not this year; a little tabletop tree will suffice. I'll probably go on a trip anyway.

I have a small tree we put on top of our entertainment center, I'll probably take down the autumn arrangement I have there now and replace it with the Christmas tree next week.

No outdoor decorations this year, just not in the mood for it.

r33 = Mame Dennis

R48, there's a national coin shortage in the USA, so we don't have to feel guilty about stiffing the Salvation Army red kettles this year.

r52, I have never felt guilty about not putting anything in the hateist Salvation Army kettles.

r48

[quote] Put it up the Saturday Biden won. Time to celebrate.

R16, I'm too superstitious for that.

R37, there are still places that do that. Zazzle (admittedly, the ultimate frau site) will print any image on a poster; you just have to upload the image.

Up a week already

R2 “Kitty Lou” - love that.

I usually put up mone around Dec 12th.

When I can find a new box of tinsel.

I actually always wanted one of these trees. They look so convenient.

Im not....I have a new cat who is full of mischief and I know he would destroy it

Mine is ceramic and about 16 inches tall. I will take it out of the box on the day after Thanksgiving, plug it into a socket in the living room, and I'm done with my decorating, except for the 10 inch ceramic tree that will get plugged into a socket in the dining room.

Putting all away is more complex as I have to wrap bubble wrap around them before they go back into the box.

R60, I'd love to see pictures of your ceramic trees. I've never heard of such a thing and just Googled images, which I love. How old are yours?

The larger tree for the living room is a vintage item. The tree is white and all the lights are green. It's lovely. The vintage design is very elegant and it always looks nice in the room. The small one is new. It's a green tree with multicolored lights. I found it in a thrift shop for five bucks. Because it is relatively small, it fits easily on the sideboard in the dining room. It's not particularly elegant, but doesn't need to be.

Google has tons of pictures of these trees. Mine are still boxed up, so... no photos to share.

This is how it's done, R59:

I have a ceramic tree my mom painted in the 1970s, that’s the first one going up this year.

This weekend, OP. I'm off from work for six days, starting Wednesday, and have plenty of time to catch up on some deep cleaning before I drag all that out. Growing up, we didn't put it up until Christmas Eve. But I like to leave mine up for the entire month of December, and take it down the day after Epiphany.

When I was a kid, we would keep ours up until the end of February or until it caught fire, whichever came first.