Community Chat

[YorkieonmyPillow]

We usually put our tree up over Thanksgiving holiday...

[Mellie32]

---

@CLEM wrote:

Hey Mellie, I am also looking forward to putting my tree up.  Except for the many lights, there will be only birds on my tree.  Makes me happy to see.  Also, I love to have breakfast with only the tree lights on.

---

Yes!  I do that all the time too, but at night.

[Marienkaefer2]

I put my tree up Nov. 1st.

It's a pre lit tree. 

At first, I just leave it without ornaments.

Then, week by week, I add something new, until it's all done by Thanksgiving weekend.

I have a forest/winter theme to my tree, so it blends with the seasons.

Then, New Year's Day, I start taking down groups of ornaments week by week, so that I end up with just the lighted tree by the end of January, when the tree itself comes down.

I enjoy my tree, I enjoy the lights, and it's a bit of a project lugging it upstairs to my first floor.

I figure if I'm putting that much work into it, I'm going to enjoy it for awhile!

[Cakers3]

Sept.-Fall decos come out

Oct.1 - Halloween decos put up

Nov.1- Halloween decos come down

Day after Thanksgiving-most fall decos come down and little by slow Christmas

decos come out.

We do not get a live tree anymore but have a small pre-lit that went kaput last year -may or may not replace. Used a table-top one last year by the fireplace-the gift bags were bigger than the tree.

Most of my decos are made by me-can't remember buying store-bought in a long time.

[ID2]

If I could do without Christmas I'd be perfectly happy. Not a fan. 

[Lila Belle]

Putting up a tree and all this early?

You must not have kids.

[Cakers3]

---

@Lila Belle wrote:
Putting up a tree and all this early?

You must not have kids.

---

@Lila Belle  Mellie said in less than a month not the day of her post.

We have Halloween threads two months before October so I guess those posters don't have children, either.

[Lipstickdiva]

I personally like to enjoy my holidays as they come and I don't intermingle them.  I don't want my Christmas decor up with my fall decor nor do I want x-mas with my Thanksgiving.

I will start x-mas decorating the Friday after Thanksgiving.  Even decorating then, I typically take my stuff down either the day after x-mas or the weekend after x-mas.  I want my house back to normal since it's been "abnormal" since October 1. 

[proudlyfromNJ]

---

@Lipstickdiva wrote:

I personally like to enjoy my holidays as they come and I don't intermingle them.  I don't want my Christmas decor up with my fall decor nor do I want x-mas with my Thanksgiving.

I will start x-mas decorating the Friday after Thanksgiving.  Even decorating then, I typically take my stuff down either the day after x-mas or the weekend after x-mas.  I want my house back to normal since it's been "abnormal" since October 1. 

---

@Lipstickdiva Same here. I might wait until A week or two before Christmas to decorate as husband needs the tree up until Jan. 6. By then I am really tired of it.

[Cakers3]

---

@Marienkaefer2 wrote:

I put my tree up Nov. 1st.

It's a pre lit tree. 

At first, I just leave it without ornaments.

Then, week by week, I add something new, until it's all done by Thanksgiving weekend.

I have a forest/winter theme to my tree, so it blends with the seasons.

Then, New Year's Day, I start taking down groups of ornaments week by week, so that I end up with just the lighted tree by the end of January, when the tree itself comes down.

I enjoy my tree, I enjoy the lights, and it's a bit of a project lugging it upstairs to my first floor.

I figure if I'm putting that much work into it, I'm going to enjoy it for awhile!

---

@Marienkaefer2  That sounds lovely.