Now that it's November everyone is starting to think about Christmas.
Our daughter puts hers up the afternoon of Remembrance Day, as she is off that day and our Grand daughter loves to have the tree up for her birthday for the 16th of November.
I am holding a Christmas get together on November 30th for a group of ladies. So the house will be all decorated the week before. Last year we didn't decorate at all as we didn't come back from the UK until December the 1st from a funeral, so the mood was sombre around here last year.
We will get our Christmas lights hung up outside if not this week, then next week; weather depending. I will also put together two planters for outside at the same time. We will not turn the lights on until the middle of November though.
On our way home on Sunday evening, I saw a couple of Christmas trees in people's windows, and that was November 2nd.
So the million dollar question is when do you usually put up your Christmas tree?
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Hello Gill,
Christmas Eve.....yes, the same for all Hungarians too.
We usually put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving, and we leave it up until New Years. When we had a live tree, we would put it up around my Dad's birthday on Dec 7 and take it down after Christmas.
We put ours up after Thanksgiving usually.
I have also seen trees up already, bit too early in my opinion.
Scrooge -- I don't put up a tree anymore, but do decorate with other Christmassy things after December 1st.
I try to get everything up Thanksgiving weekend, which is late this year -- 27th. I try to get some of the stuff upstairs before, stashed in the guest room, so I can start to power on it. but I do like to respect the bird! I wish we had Thanksgiving at the same time of year you do! And, with my art sale the 13-15th, I'm pretty busy with that leading up and then putting away after. But I tend to leave it up at least till Twelfth Night and often later. Rick likes his up about the week leading up to Christmas.
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