# Weekend After Thanksgiving: Is Your Christmas Tree Up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686 "2007-11-25T11:13:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686/41 "2007-11-27T02:14:48Z")

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Uploaded badly lit pic of my Christmas tree [here](http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z90/emmalouinamerica/Random%20stuff/IMG_1133.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686/42 "2007-11-27T03:03:58Z")

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No.

And if I have any luck at all, it won’t be up until mid-December. If I get really lucky, we won’t even have a tree.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686/43 "2007-11-27T05:49:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Telperien]

My mother likes Christmas decorations a lot. I think I managed to get her to not put out the basket of Santa heads, but I admit I didn’t check to be sure.  
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Basket of Santa heads? As a warning to other red clad fat SOBs who might come ho-ho-hoing around your door?

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**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686/44 "2007-11-27T13:34:42Z")

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[QUOTE=danceswithcats]  
Basket of Santa heads? As a warning to other red clad fat SOBs who might come ho-ho-hoing around your door?  
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Yeah. I guess it’s to say, “Give us presents or it’ll be your head in this basket, old man.” 😃

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-after-thanksgiving-is-your-christmas-tree-up/427686/45 "2007-11-27T15:24:45Z")

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[QUOTE=ems]  
Uploaded badly lit pic of my Christmas tree [here](http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z90/emmalouinamerica/Random%20stuff/IMG_1133.jpg)  
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That’s really pretty too! Wow, I am getting inspired. must…wait…for…December…Gaudete Sunday sounds right.

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