# Christmas decorations... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758 "2003-11-17T20:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/1 "2003-11-17T20:23:56Z")
I put mine up, complete with the tree yesterday. When do you guys put your decorations up? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/2 "2003-11-17T21:01:41Z")
The tree has been up for weeks; we had to test-assemble it to make sure it had all its branches (we bought it really cheap at a flea market, so it was a reasonable suspicion). After we got it up we were far too lazy to take it back down. It’s been sitting in the living room, bare, ever since. I have my holiday tablecloth out, but it’s kinda neutral and could be used for Thanksgiving as well. I also have several penguin things scattered and some candles out, but everything else - including the ornaments on the tree - waits until next week. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/3 "2003-11-17T21:45:48Z")
If we’re not taking a trip in December, the tree goes up right after Thanksgiving. Otherwise, it has to wait until we’re back. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/4 "2003-11-17T21:52:22Z")
Goes up the first Sunday in Advent, comes down on Epiphany. Easy. Except when I get lazy and put it off, and it ends up coming down sometime before Ash Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/5 "2003-11-17T22:24:54Z")
Our cats won’t let us have a tree. I do a few little decorations, about two weeks before Christmas. I get burned out on it very quickly. My mother-in-law put hers up on Halloween. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/6 "2003-11-17T22:40:08Z")
Tree goes up on my birthday (Dec 17) and comes down New Years Day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Better\_days](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Better\_days](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Better_days)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/7 "2003-11-17T22:40:51Z")
My apartment is too small for a tree this year…plus with my move coming up early in the New Year, I wanted to limit my Christmas decorations this year. USUALLY…i go all out! My limited decorations have been up for almost two weeks now though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/8 "2003-11-17T22:58:11Z")
Christmas decorations don’t go up till the 1st of December, and the tree (plus some more intensive decorations) doesn’t go up until 10-14 days before the day itself. By January 1st, I’m more than ready to fling the tree out the door–I don’t know how other people can stand having it up for a month or more! ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/9 "2003-11-17T23:02:23Z")
This is the first year I have put them up before Thanksgiving. I collect Santa stuff, and I figured I have a lot of money invested in them and I want to enjoy them for more than 3 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/10 "2003-11-17T23:04:30Z")
Yeah, as much fun as decorating is… there is something theraputic about reclaiming the house after the holidays! ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/11 "2003-11-17T23:11:19Z")
Yes, by December 26th, I am in to putting all the Santa stuff away and putting the “regular” stuff back out. ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/12 "2003-11-18T00:53:40Z")
Normally I put up my tree Thanksgiving weekend. I try to do it at a time when my nieces are visiting so they can do the labor and I supervise. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/13 "2003-11-18T01:49:17Z")
We have one strand of lights, which has been up since last Christmas, but not plugged in. I am waiting to Dec 1st to plug them in…they’ll be nice as I study for my exams on the 2nd! We plan on getting a 12 inch mini-tree this year, just for fun. Probably that weekend, or the one after (the 6th-7th). My mom puts lights up at home mid-December, and doesn’t usually get a tree until about a week and a half before Christmas, because she gets a live one. We go out to the tree farm and cut one down. The owner is a family friend, and usually only charges about 10$, regardless of the tree size. We tend to give him 20$, though! I hope to be home in time to go get the tree again this year! ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations/213758/14 "2003-11-18T03:24:26Z")
Started on the house yesterday. Will continue tomorrow (would have been today, but it’s too windy for me to get on the roof). Will probably take a week to get most of the lights up and then a day or two for the blow molds. I hope to switch it all on around Sunday 30/11 (on a timer) so when we come home from the inlaws my little girl will be able to see it all on at night. It gets dark here around 9-9:30pm so it’s after the little ones bedtime.