How early do you start decorating for Christmas?

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

The question is in the title. Perhaps December 1st? We tend to leave it until two weeks before, so the tree stays fresh for longer (we always get a natural tree).

 

[tvguy]

We follow the "traditional" Christmas season, not the "retail". Two weeks before Christmas, and it stays up until two weeks after, to the epiphany. That is weather permitting on the outside lights.

 

[kimmar067]

....as late as possible. One year we did decorate the day/weekend directly after Thanksgiving, but I was DONE with all that before Christmas even arrived.

 

[jtopp]

If it was up to my wife, it would be in august. We compromise, usually the weekend before thanksgiving.

 

[fla4fun]

We put up the tree on Thanksgiving day. My sister often has to work Christmas so we end up celebrating it sometime in January and take down the decorations afterwards. We don’t put up any outdoor decorations though, so it’s not like anyone else knows the decorations are still up inside. Obviously we have an artificial tree . . .

 

[Meriweather]

The weekend after Thanksgiving. It takes a few days.
And then is baking time

 

[easyas123]

Outside decorating - which is limited to lights on the porch and in one tree, the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Inside the house decorating - which I don't go overboard with, usually the weekend after Thanksgiving or the second weekend after Thanksgiving.
Tree - we usually put our tree up the weekend before Christmas.
Undecorating (de-decorating?), well I wish I could get up on the 26th and bin it all but in the spirit of compromise with my significant other I leave it up till NYE.

 

[merfsko]

November 3 until January. I love my Christmas decor, so it feels a waste for it to sit in boxes and only get to shine for a few weeks.

(Also, being Canadian help since our Thanksgiving is in October, I don't have to worry about another holiday)

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving since I have that day off. They stay up until New Years Day

 

[WDWEPCOT]

After Thanksgiving usually the weekend after and it all comes down the day after Christmas

 

[nancipants]

This weekend, just like Disney. Christmas decorations make me happy, so we put them up as soon as Halloween is over.

The only issue is that my son asks if it's Christmas for almost 8 weeks.

 

[lynxstch]

I start after Thanksgiving, but don't turn the lights on until Dec 1'st

 

[QueenIsabella]

The day after Thanksgiving, although it stretches through the weekend. My kids get very miffed at how Christmas encroaches on Thanksgiving, so we start the next day. I do other stuff--make ornaments, make cards, buy and wrap gifts, etc.--earlier, but don't display anything.

I will pull out my Christmas organizer on November 1st, and have already directed DD22 to buy any necessary Christmas village items. Walmart has them out, and we need specific things (she has a list). She does the village every year. And bakes most cookies, but that's throughout the season.

It should be fun this year, we have 2, half-grown kittens who will be having their first Christmas! (They're getting a new cat tower--shh!) DH better secure the tree REALLY well!

 

[firefly_ris]

Indoor decor -- pretty early, usually the week before Thanksgiving. We travel out of town for Thanksgiving and I like coming home after that to everything up and done already.

Outdoor lights we sometimes do even earlier than that if the weather is still good, and then just don't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. This sometimes prevents us from trying to put lights on the house while 10 inches of Lake Effect Snow is coming down.

 

[ford family]

Here in the UK, we put up our pre lit artificial tree a week before Christmas and take it down a week afterwards. We don't have any other decoration indoors or outside. Christmas, for us, is a purely secular holiday so many of our tree baubles represent various holiday trips, mainly Disney.

ford family

 

[Mazz519]

We used to always start to decorate for Christmas the week after Thanksgiving, as our kids are older and 2 have moved out we find we are setting up later and later each year !!

 

[LilyWDW]

A weekend between Nov 1 and Thanksgiving when I have the time and energy to do it.

 

[TippyThomas]

I don't decorate at home, but I do decorate at the animal shelter each year. We usually do all of that the weekend after Thanksgiving. That's when we plan to do it this year as well.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

When we got a real tree it was 2 weeks before for tree a little earlier for other decorations.
Now that we have an artificial tree we decorate the day after Christmas. Everything stays up until epiphany.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

When we got a real tree it was 2 weeks before for tree a little earlier for other decorations.
Now that we have an artificial tree we decorate the day after Christmas. Everything stays up until the epiphany.