Poll: Decorate for Christmas

[dlavender]

I know every year more and more people seem to complain that Christmas comes to early. When I was younger, we didn't decorate until at least the first week of December. However, my wife and I started a tradition where we decorate the day after Thanksgiving. This year, I want to do it a week before that. DW thinks I've lost it, lol. When do you start decorating for Christmas?

 

[hereyago]

We have always decorated after Thanksgiving.

 

[Deb & Bill]

When I was a kid, we put up our tree on my brother's birthday, Dec 19. Since I've been married, we (meaning my husband - I hate to decorate) put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving. That is plenty early enough. if you have a live tree, you shouldn't put it up earlier than a week before. Otherwise, you have a really bad fire hazard. We have a lighted artificial tree.

I agree with your wife. You've lost it. Enjoy Thanksgiving, watch the games, then do the Christmas stuff.

 

[Magpie]

My son's birthday is at the end of November, so we would refrain from playing Christmas carols in his hearing before his birthday. And the tree didn't go up until after his birthday. But I always liked to start the rest of the decorating part way through December - such as the outdoor lights and wreath, etc.

Our Thanksgiving is in October, so I figure as long as it's later than Remembrance Day, I'm all good. Decorating before Remembrance Day (Nov 11) feels somehow disrespectful to me.

 

[pryncess527]

We decorate the Friday after Thanksgiving.

 

[wenrob]

Early December. My kids birthday is Nov 30th so I try not to tie it to Thanksgiving or Christmas. Fall stuff comes down right after Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff goes up about a week after their birthday. We usually get our (live) tree two weeks to ten days before Christmas. I can't imagine doing either any earlier, by the time Christmas rolls around I'm done with the decor. I have to resist taking it down the day after. Only did that once and it was because the tree was dead.

 

[soccerdad72]

Hey, no 'Other'!!

I suppose it depends on how you define decorating. Not to be nitpicky, but I try to start putting outside lights up when there's good weather, so I have some lights up already. We don't usually start decorating inside the house (or turn any lights on) until after Thanksgiving, though.

 

[daughtersrus]

I voted after Thanksgiving but it's not that weekend. Usually the following week

 

[L&Lfan]

We decorate around the middle of December. We try to observe a true Advent so we tend to decorate around the 15th. We keep our decorations up until a little after Epiphany.

 

[LJSquishy]

I start sneaking in Thanksgiving/Christmas transitional decor mid-November. I have a few items that look fine for both holidays like sisal woodland critters, mercury glass trees, etc. I don't put the tree up until the day after Thanksgiving usually and then all of the normal Christmas stuff comes out.

 

[dlavender]

Agree with the tree comments. Don't think it would make it through the season if we put it up earlier than Thanksgiving.

 

[Hikergirl]

If I am in town I start to decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving. We would get our tree about 2 weeks before Christmas. Last year I finally got a fake tree so that will go up with all the other stuff. i wanted to start playing Christmas music yesterday but my dd begged me not too since she has to listen to it at work starting soon.

 

[prprincess]

I usually decorate on Black Friday since I'm home with the kids and off of work. It's usually my only free weekend day from Thanksgiving to New Year's, so it's then or never.

 

[jdb in AZ]

One year I got an early start -- right after Halloween, and was soooo tired of it by Christmas.

This year we'll be out of town from Dec 23 til Jan 2, so I probably won't do much decorating. If I don't haul it out, I won't have to put it away when we get home. DH will probably put up some outdoor lights and put them on a timer to come on every night, so it will look like we're home.

 

[Marchand63]

Family day is day after thanksgiving. We decorate that Friday.

 

[MrJT]

The weekend after Thanksgiving for me. In the past I worked a lot on the weekends, so it took some time to finish. But I should be off the whole 3 days, so decorating should go easily this year.

 

[Disneylover99]

We start decorating the day after Remembrance Day, so Sat. Nov. 12th will be decorating day for us.

 

[MIGrandma]

I normally decorate for Christmas the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving then we put the tree up that Sunday, and don't take things down until January 10th or so.

But this year will be different, our family Christmas is probably going to be the weekend before Christmas and we're leaving January 3rd for our winter vacation so I'm putting the decorations up the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving and the tree goes up November 20th. At first I thought I would take everything down January 1st or 2nd but I think I'll just leave it up until we get home the 18th.

 

[Neesy228]

If thanksgiving is at my house, then I wait until after the holiday. If it's not (like this year), then I put the halloween decor away and pull the Christmas stuff out at the same time.

I will have the inside of the house decorate by the end of next week. The outside (so the neighbors don't realize how crazy I am) will wait until the week of thanksgiving. We always get our main tree (I put up 5 other smaller artificial trees with the other decorations) on the Friday or Saturday after thanksgiving at the Christmas tree farm. Our outside lights go on for the first time on thanksgiving night.

I love Christmas!

 

[jetskigrl]

Our tradition is to decorate the Saturday after Thanksgiving (while watching football) We used to do Black Friday shopping (so decorating waited until Sat) but it has gotten too crazy so now I just deep clean the house that day to get it ready for decorating on Sat.