Are your Christmas decorations up yet?

[DznyCrzy11]

I'm exicted about getting the tree up this year. I have some new Disney ornaments and I'm using a Mickey santa hat as the "tree topper". That all being said, I won't put it all up until the day after Thanksgiving, or that weekend if I end up working that Friday.

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[scrapquitler]

Outside decorations will go up probably next weekend (first weekend in November) because it's not too cold and there won't be any snow or ice so it's safe for DH to be on the ladder then. If we don't get them up before the first snow or before it gets too cold, it doesn't happen. They also don't come down until there is a weekend with no snow/not too cold, so that often means they are up until the spring (but not turned on after New Years).

Inside stuff, we start right after Halloween. We celebrate Christmas at our cabin out of state, and we are only there on the weekends, so we start working on it in Early November so we can enjoy it while we are there and we aren't doing it all at the last minute in a mad rush. Here at our 'regular' home I do very minimal decorating for Christmas, and will do that probably right around Thanksgiving.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

The movie is the heart of christmas

 

[portia9]

I put everything up around Dec 1st.

 

[Robinrs]

Not yet but can't wait to get busy!!

 

[PigletsPal2]

I went to a patients house and she has had hers up since the beginning of September, its crazy

Is your patient Filipino? Seriously, we lived in Manila for two years and the Filipinos started decorating their homes in the first month that ended in "ber."

DH is usually working in DC from July to mid-December, so I make one of my many visits to see him over the Thanksgiving holiday. My DDs aren't all that into Thanksgiving, so while I'm away, they clean my house top to bottom, get all the decorations in place and trim the tree. If I remember to leave a list, DGD addresses my Christmas cards. Am I spoiled or what?

Queen Colleen

 

[fabulousfive]

Our decorations always go up right before Thanksgiving. We usually select our tree at the farm right after Thanksgiving.

 

[cybrkitn]

Just found out yesterday from DH that our nephew came home and found that his wife had been busy decorating one room for Christmas!

 

[ChristineNic]

We're skipping Christmas this year. No decorations, no presents. Surprisingly, DH mentioned going to WDW for Christmas Eve and Day.

We are moving. We close on our new house on 12/17. The movers are scheduled to deliver all of our wordly goods to the new house on 12/19. I figure that we will have enough packages to "open" since most everything we own will be boxed.

We don't have any kids, so there are no young ones to be devasted by having Santa skip us this year.

I told DH to put a bow on the front door and we can call our house our gift for this year.

 

[cybrkitn]

I told DH to put a bow on the front door and we can call our house our gift for this year.

I probably would have done the same thing as you if DH and I were in the same position. Just put up a bow and say, "This is our Christmas gift this year "

 

[Atlas722]

No. I haven't had Christmas displays in my house since 2000 or 2001, and that includes the Christmas tree.

 

[DznyCrzy11]

We're skipping Christmas this year. No decorations, no presents. Surprisingly, DH mentioned going to WDW for Christmas Eve and Day.

We are moving. We close on our new house on 12/17. The movers are scheduled to deliver all of our wordly goods to the new house on 12/19. I figure that we will have enough packages to "open" since most everything we own will be boxed.

We don't have any kids, so there are no young ones to be devasted by having Santa skip us this year.

I told DH to put a bow on the front door and we can call our house our gift for this year.

Nothing wrong with that at all, my DH and I did that back in 2006. My DH and I closed on our 1st home Dec 15, so that was our Christmas gift. The only reason we celebrated Christmas that year is because my parents and aunt & uncle visited us for Christmas, we didn't even have a tree up!

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[Minerva Mouse]

I noticed another neighbor last night with a tree in the window.

 

[diamondpixienc]

Well, I have some neighbors who never took them down ( left the lights around their trees and deck) but I have a short week with the kiddos due to conferences and I plan to keep them busy by sorting through the Christmas lights. You know seeing which ones may need to be replaced. But other than that I usually have DH get the ladder and start putting them out the weekend before Thanksgiving that way I can flip the switch at dusk on that evening. Our little Elf Crayon will usually appear the next morning too.

 

[theworldneedscolor]

We still need to take down the rest of our Halloween decorations today. We might put up the outside lights within the next few weeks, but not the angel or Snoopy that go on the lawn. Those will probably go out the first week of December.

I'll probably put out the indoor decorations Thanksgiving weekend. But the tree won't go up until approx. two weeks before Christmas. For all those who put it up really early, don't you worry about it drying out and becoming a fire hazard?

 

[HeatherC]

No Christmas decorations up, but since it is the first night of daylight savings time and will probably be dark around 4:30 (yuk), I may put my little white electric candles in the window.

We live in a New England colonial and I love the candles in the windows during winter. When the weather gets cold and bleak, it looks so warm and inviting.

 

[Disneybuckeye]

Halloween came down today and Thanksgiving went up. The Sunday after Thanksgiving I will flip over to Christmas.

 

[Diznygrl]

We still need to take down the rest of our Halloween decorations today. We might put up the outside lights within the next few weeks, but not the angel or Snoopy that go on the lawn. Those will probably go out the first week of December.

I'll probably put out the indoor decorations Thanksgiving weekend. But the tree won't go up until approx. two weeks before Christmas. For all those who put it up really early, don't you worry about it drying out and becoming a fire hazard?

Not if you have an artificial tree.

 

[Feralpeg]

Inside decorations are out and in place except for the trees. Those will take me a good week to put up and trim. By mid-November, the inside will be all Christmas. The outside will wait until the week of Thanksgiving.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I'm working on it. I have two trees up but only one is decorated right now. We leave for Disney in 18 days so I want all of this finished before we leave.