When will you put your Xmas tree up? Think mine will be going up on either the 15th or 16 December. I always get stressed about it, don't know why but I want it to look perfect. I spend the run up to Xmas messing about moving things round then after Xmas I'm not bothered just want to get the damned thing down!

It is usually 14 days before crimbo, I think.

we're not, we'rew going to parents for xmas so doesnt seem much point. bah humbug!!

Some time in December, when I feel in the mood. And I will primp and pull at its feathers until I get it looking perfect! :hihi:

It'll be about the 15/16th for us as well

Probably around the 16th.I think I'm going for silver and purple.

Probably around the 8th, I think thats a Saturday. It comes down on new years day.

Probably around the 16th.I think I'm going for silver and purple.

Ooo you're posh. I just love getting my stuff out cos a lot of the decorations have memories with them. I've got a fairy that we used to put on our tree when I was young, she's about 45 years old.

Oh no, not posh, just want summat different, didn't say that all my traditional decs are in the loft and I'm not parting with em!:hihi:

It goes up when it's supposed to go up - Christmas Eve; and comes down twelve days later.

Probably around the 8th, I think thats a Saturday. It comes down on new years day.

Yep. Going up Dec. 8/9 and coming down the day after New Year's Day.

Mine goes up when I feel like it (usually some point in the middle of December) and comes down again on 12th night. I've got no idea where it's going to go this year though, because the space where it has gone every other year now has a sofa in it!

The weekend before the weekend before Christmas is the usual time in our house - that'll be 15/16 December this year.

in the first week of december... :D

about 15/16th as its ds birthday 1st week dec so we give him a wk to have his cards up then a week getting everything ready! my tree has every colour on it!! looks like a rainbow has sneezed on it! i love it that way he he

our tree will go up sometime in the week after the 16th, and it wont be colour co-ordinated, I have a lot of bits on the tree that the kids have made (and continue to make!)
However there is a flat on Park Grange Road and they have their tree up already, we saw it last night :loopy:

I'm normally too lazy about erecting my tree so I prefer my housemate to do it for me.

Probably around the first week of December!

i always put mine up an my birthday (1st dec),a bit early i know but i just love gettiing to the spirit of crimbo...:)

When my dad can be bothered to go into the loft to get it probably. Though I've been trying to convince my mum and dad to get a real one for about the last ten years.

What do we think people real or fake?

My mum's latest excuse is our dog may decide to pee on it.................... he's a three year old labrador, I think he has slightly more intelligence than that.

I usually do it on the weekend nearest to 15th December - which this year will be 15th December!!

It comes down during the first weekend of the new year.

Ooo you're posh. I just love getting my stuff out cos a lot of the decorations have memories with them. I've got a fairy that we used to put on our tree when I was young, she's about 45 years old.


Same here .. I have decorations going back to when I was a small child .. and we buy one new decoration every year .. we unwrap each decoration every Christmas and unlease loads of happy memories.

i always put mine up an my birthday (1st dec),a bit early i know but i just love gettiing to the spirit of crimbo...:)

1st here too, got to get all the lights up to:hihi:, got some disco lights too.:cool:

When will you put your Xmas tree up? Think mine will be going up on either the 15th or 16 December. I always get stressed about it, don't know why but I want it to look perfect. I spend the run up to Xmas messing about moving things round then after Xmas I'm not bothered just want to get the damned thing down!

Ah, the annual argument between me and my wife and kids.

Each year they push to have it put up earlier and earlier - if they had their way it would go up in June!! (OK, maybe not that early!)

There are very few traditions that I adhere to - not being religious, all those traditions mean little to me. The traditions I am talking about are the ones my parents passed down to me (which, as my mother was very Catholic - going to midnight mass and all that - I suppose some if not all of the traditions I try to hold to have some religious foundation).

Any way, the putting up of the Xmas tree is an annual debate.

Firstly, no artificial tree for me - Xmas is artificial enough as it is and I don't mind the needles dropping; there is nothing more fragrant than coming downstairs to the smell of pine :love:

Secondly, putting it up as near to Xmas as possible. Tradition has it that you put it up on Xmas Eve and take it down on Jan 6th - Twelfth [sp?] Night.

My wife's interpretation is that you put it 12 days before Xmas and take it down on Jan 6th. Making it 24th Night (:loopy:)

So, we (I) compromise and settle for around a week to 10 days before Xmas.

Taking it down is on Jan 1st - our youngest was born on Jan 2nd, so we try to make her birthday feel like a birthday rather than part of Xmas.

Mind you, with the shops stocking Xmas 'stuff' in late August (Morrision, Ecclesfield, Aug 20 something, had Xmas choccies, nuts and so on on a 'seasonal' isle!!!) by the time Xmas comes around I've well and truly had enough of it.

And that is the saddest bit of it all.

According to today's Daily Mail, the government is thinking of banning real Christmas trees from next year due to the environmental impact of acres of pine trees being chopped down on an annual basis, not to mention the carbon emissions caued by burning them once the festive season is over.

Seems that from 2008 we'll only be allowed to use recyclable materials to make christmas trees with; apparantly one enterprising abbatoir in South Wales has already suggested making Christmas trees out of the carcasses of slaughtered animals.
Could this be the way forward?

Mines usually up within the first 2 weeks of december, depends how busy i am!

Need some early Christmas cheer this year so am putting it up around the 1st of December... Will be sick of the sight of it by Boxing Day though :roll:

According to today's Daily Mail, the government is thinking of banning real Christmas trees from next year due to the environmental impact of acres of pine trees being chopped down on an annual basis, not to mention the carbon emissions caued by burning them once the festive season is over.

Seems that from 2008 we'll only be allowed to use recyclable materials to make christmas trees with; apparantly one enterprising abbatoir in South Wales has already suggested making Christmas trees out of the carcasses of slaughtered animals.
Could this be the way forward?

Love it... my new Rudolph tree will certainly look the part :D

I'm not putting one up at all - and yes I am a miserable sod

i saw one up a week ago in Eckington in someones house

When will you put your Xmas tree up? !

More to the point why mention it when it is only early November. Why mention Xmas at all until at least 1st december at the very earliest. What next - what Easter eggs do you like?:loopy:

I'll put mine up about the 18th or sometime around there. I am really looking forward to xmas this year I have a partner who I really am looking forward to spending time with. I am not usually bothered about the whole xmas thing but having him around will make it all cosy and nice :hihi:

More to the point why mention it when it is only early November. Why mention Xmas at all until at least 1st december at the very earliest. What next - what Easter eggs do you like?:loopy:

baa humbug :roll:

i love putting the old tree up! we normally make an afternoon of it and go out to Castleton (weather permitting) and look round the shops and go for a wintery walk and then on the way back we call at the nursery/ garden centre and dig a real tree up and take it home and decorate it- lovely! i love the smell of a real tree and once we got stuck in the snow on the way home from Castleton cus it had started to come down heavy! lol!

Why mention Xmas at all until at least 1st december at the very earliest.

Cloudybay's festive tip for slimsid..............go out and buy yourself a Christmas tree tomorrow, together with and a nice little fairy to sit on top. Then send a letter to Santa..........and if you're a very lucky boy, your wish may be granted and you'll get to put yours up early. :)

10th December, paint the door frames, skirting etc.
11th December, man coming to steam clean carpets etc.
12th December, new curtains going up and cushion covers of sofas (I have loads of cushions)
13th December, christmas tree goes up, no tacky trimmings.

Iv just got my living room redecorated and my kitchen is looking good too.So am gonna buy new tree and trimmings this year. Aint sure on the coulors but im looking forward to it. It's gonna be the best xmas. Anyway will put mine up at about 10th -15th depending. x

Im bored of the space in the living room now. I'm putting it back out tonight. Anyone else fancy it?

Im bored of the space in the living room now. I'm putting it back out tonight. Anyone else fancy it?

I'd rephrase that if I were you. Remember what happened the last time you went on an internet forum and asked "Anyone else fancy it?"? :rolleyes: