When does your TREE go up?

[mouse_chalk]

Ok, so I'm totally unprepared so far, but I'm getting really excited this year about Christmas

When is everyone putting up their Christmas tree and decorations?

Since I've been living with Steve we normally wait until at least the first week of December is past, but this year we're actually going to get it on Monday the 1st!! WOOHOO!

I'm really excited for some reason.... isn't everyone else?:biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin2:

 

[PepnFluff]

Don't you just love tree time!!! We chose our today and theyre delivering it on the 12th of December, so it shall go up then!

 

[BethM]

While I really like having a tree, I am a) too cheap to buy one; and b) too lazy to go get it, put it up, clean up after it, then take it down and dispose of it. I really love the smell of a real tree, and don't like fake trees much.

I haven't put one up since we got bunnies, and we don't have space to put one somewhere they won't disturb it. And believe me, Amelia would disturb it. So a tree is out for now, even if I did want to deal with it.

I'm not really a Christmas-y person, anyway, so it doesn't matter much. Ironically, the only thing I want from my Grandma when she passes away is her Christmas ornaments. (I always decorated her tree when I was little, and she has some really nifty antique ornaments from when she lived in Germany. If another relative takes them, there's not really anything I want from her.) Christmas ornaments are also one of the few things I will want from my Mom, too. An odd duck, I am.

 

[kherrmann3]

I won't allow any holiday to be set-up outside of its month. We put our Christmas stuff up December 1st. Will argued with me about it, so I let him leave it up until mid-January.

People around here have had their Christmas lights up for awhile. I started seeing them in October :grumpy: That bothers me, for whatever reason. I'm odd, I guess.

 

[Becca]

We would put ours up on 1st Dec but we're at school so we do it the first Saturday in December - I can't wait!!

 

[mouse_chalk]

Lol, we take ours down on the 2nd of January or something lol! Once it's all over, that it as far as I'm concerned

I need to figure out how we're going to light our tree. It's going on the same wall as Mouse and Chalk's cage, but it'll be on a little table so that they can't jump up and get to it. But there's no plug socket on that wall, apart from behind their cage (we don't use it) so I might either have to look for some battery operated lights, if they even exist lol, or plug it in there and put a cord cover over and pull the cage forward slightly so that they can't get to it.... OR put a board behind their cage that covers the socket....

I need to find all the decorations as well! I have NO idea where they are!! anic:anic:anic:anic:

 

[lalena2148]

We're going to start putting our stuff up today. Our outside lights won't be done for a while because we're getting a new roof and it would be pointless to put up lights on the gutters just to take them down when the roofer gets here. It'll take me a good few days to finish inside: we have4 trees varying in sizes....8ft in the living room that's traditional w/ multi-colored lights, 4ft in the loft that has red lights and is mostly white, gold, and red ornaments/poinsettas, 2ft in the family that has a pool table theme as it's in the pool table room, small one in the bathroom that has a wilderness theme that matches.

After I drag out all the boxes, with cleaning and stuff, it probably won't be until Tuesday that the inside is completely done.

We usually put our stuff up right after Thanksgiving just 'cause if we don't, my husband and I are so busy that we kinda let it pass by with out enjoying it. It creates a nice, calming atmosphere when we get home from work. We keep the lights up until Jan.6th. It was a tradition in my dad's house to keep everything up till then because it was supposedly the day the Three Wise Men showed up to Bethlehem. :shrugs: IDK...I just do what I'm told!

 

[bat42072]

we put moms tree up last weekend... I am not putting one up this year mine broke last year and im to stingy to by one this year

 

[Michaela]

We just put ours up. Yayy!
The outside lights are going up tomorrow, I think.

 

[mouse_chalk]

YAY!

I think we need to turn this into a pictures of our Christmas Trees thread!

I think we're going to go with red and white/silver for our 'colour scheme' this year.... Gotta go and get decorations!

And I'm going to put lights up in the kitchen window as well...

 

[LuvaBun]

We put ours up 2 weeks ago. Seems that a lot of people here put them up early. This is the first time we've had outside lights/wreaths/reindeer as they would have most likely been stolen where we were in the UK!!!!!!

Jan

 

[Pet_Bunny]

LuvaBun wrote:

We put ours up 2 weeks ago. Seems that a lot of people here put them up early.

I put our outside lights up just after Halloween. You never know how cold or how much snow you get at that time, so you take advantage of the warm weather. I won't turn them on, until some of the neighbors start turning theirs on.

 

[SOOOSKA]

I put our tree up today. All other Xmas stuff will come tomorrow. We've had outdoor lights up and on for about a week now.

Buttercup has his own tree this year too.

Susan

 

[Elf Mommy]

We're not doinga tree this year. It has been decided. Both children will have their own fiber optic tree in their bedrooms, but the big tree won't be going up. Next year we'll do it up big (according to hubby), but this year we're spending all the extra money on presents instead.

 

[Brandy456]

Ours went up last week.

 

[JadeIcing]

BethM wrote:

While I really like having a tree, I am a) too cheap to buy one; and b) too lazy to go get it, put it up, clean up after it, then take it down and dispose of it. I really love the smell of a real tree, and don't like fake trees much.

A and the prefering a real one. Also we have nosey bunnies.

 

[JadeIcing]

Elf Mommy wrote:

We're not doinga tree this year. It has been decided. Both children will have their own fiber optic tree in their bedrooms, but the big tree won't be going up. Next year we'll do it up big (according to hubby), but this year we're spending all the extra money on presents instead.

I do have alittle one I bought for like $10 when it went 90% off after the holidays. WOOHOOO!

 

[myLoki]

We put both of ours up today. We have a big one in the living/TV room and a small one in the dining room. LOOOOOVE Christmas trees. I put them up as soon as possible. Usually the day after Thanksgiving. :biggrin2:

t.

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

We put ours up mid-December. We don't like to put it up too early as we always get a real one and so if we put it up any earlier it would probably be a pile of twigs by New Year!The other decs go up earlier though.

When I was little we always used to wait till the 17th to put up the tree, as my birthday is on the 16th so I didn't like everything to be focused on Christmas till I hadcelebrated my birthday.Nowadays we usually put it up a few days earlier though.

 

[SnowyShiloh]

It seems like it was just Christmas!! I do love Christmas though Today I put Christmas lights around the windows in the living room, and I bought a cute snowman table runner and a little nutcracker for the coffee table. I also bought a Christmas cactus a few days ago, and put it along with my smaller Christmas cactus (which is so neglected that I didn't notice how much it's grown and that it has a great honking big red bloom on it!) on the coffee table. I also bought a little folding table to put our little Christmas tree on since the table we used last year is now being monopolized by the TV!

Tomorrow I'm going to put up the Christmas tree and ornaments and dig out the decorations. I'm mostly set for decorations but I'd like to buy a Christmassy dish towel, something to put on the door and a hanger for the bunnies' Christmas stocking

So, everyone's going to take pictures, right?