# The Annual When To Put Up Your X-Mas Tree and Take It Down Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-when-to-put-up-your-x-mas-tree-and-take-it-down-thread/561042>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 18, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-when-to-put-up-your-x-mas-tree-and-take-it-down-thread/561042 "2010-11-18T00:24:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-when-to-put-up-your-x-mas-tree-and-take-it-down-thread/561042/41 "2010-11-23T00:29:08Z")

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Up second or third weekend of December, usually. Down pretty close to New Year’s Day (usually the weekend right before or after - this year probably something like Jan 2).

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-when-to-put-up-your-x-mas-tree-and-take-it-down-thread/561042/42 "2010-11-23T19:29:37Z")

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Up: whenever we get around to it, but any time after Thanksgiving.  
Down: whenever we get around to it, always after January 1 but sometimes not until we are expecting guests some time later in the month.

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-when-to-put-up-your-x-mas-tree-and-take-it-down-thread/561042/43 "2010-11-23T20:49:58Z")

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Tree:  
Up: 2nd or 3rd weekend in December (don’t want it to get too dry)  
Down: Weekend after Epiphany.

Lights and lawn decorations:  
Up: No earlier than first Sunday of Advent (usually Thanksgiving weekend). I usually slip a week and do first weekend in December.  
Down: First weekend after Epiphany, although Jan. 6 is the last day I’ll turn on the lights.

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