When do you decorate for the holidays?

Probly a few days before Thanksgiving. I will be out of town (home with family ) for Thanksgiving-so I will get everything decorated and the tree up in the apartment before I leave. I can't wait-I love Christmas so much!!

At home, I do it the day after Thanksgiving. While everyone else is out stampeding each other & mauling the aisles & going ballistic over parking spaces, my butt is at home putting Christmas stuff, listening to Christmas music, and chilllllliiiiing ouuuuut.

At my office, a beautiful 150 year old building, I decorate the week OF Thanksgiving! I am always alone because none of the stuffy, overpaid guys I work with feel like working... which is fine with me. So I jam to Christmas tunes, run around in stocking feet, and put up Christmas stuff!

Then I take it all down January 2nd.

We are going to start decorating outside this weekend...before it gets really cold here...but we won't turn the lights on till the end of November

When I DO decorate, its the weekend after Thanksgiving. The stuff comes down, on New Year's Day.

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

We are going to start decorating outside this weekend...before it gets really cold here...but we won't turn the lights on till the end of November

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That's what I'm trying to talk him into. He's trying to play the "practical" card that it's supposed to be nice this weekend, yadda yadda yadda. So if he wants to put up lights this weekend, OK...but I don't want to turn them ON until the week before Thanksgiving at the earliest! I'm from the tradition of putting up the decorations Thanksgiving or the day after (at least that weekend).

I start after Thanksgiving also. For once I actually got the halloween stuff but away the next day!!
Tell him he is rushing the season!!
Once thing I won't miss is being forced to endure Christmas Musak at work!! I think they started playing that stuff right after thanksgiving-way too early if you ask me!!

We usually go kind of crazy with Christmas decorations at my parents' house. Christmas a huge deal in my family...we all love it! The DAY after Thanksgiving, all 5 (yes, 5) Christmas trees go up. I put up a tree in my apartment right after that.

I'm really sort of conflicted about Christmas this year. My family and I are going on cruise in the carribean and to cozumel and will spend Christmas in Florida with my mom's family. I mean, I really can't argue or be sad about a Carriebean cruise, but I don't know how you Floridians do it...Christmas won't be Christmas unless I'm in Chicago with the cold weather and snow. I'm going to miss dinner at the Walnut Room, Field's Windows, The CSO's Welcome Yule, singing Christmas in Chicago, eating my one not-even-vegetarian meal at the Berghoff and drinking their root beer until I explode, doing all of my shopping on the mag mile...

It will probably be sunny and 75, which pretty much goes against everything I have ever known about Christmas.

Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving/ first week of December.

Originally Posted by fwan

The germans decorate their trees on xmas eve.. BUT IM NOT GERMAN

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Either am I, but I still wait until Christmas Eve. Then I get to redecorate Christmas Day, etc., etc., etc., until January 2nd or 3rd, when everything that has survived the season (read: Jamie) comes down. We don't put up lights, so all the decorations (cat toys) are inside.

I must be a late decorator... I start the first weekend in December for indoor stuff. For Outdoor things we try to puck the coldest day possible so out fingers freeze off attaching strings of lights to the hedge... it's tradition!

Not having Thanksgiving here we usually decorate in the first week of December. This year, daughter won't be coming home from Uni until Dec 19th and it's a family tradition that we dress the tree together. So - Dec 19th it will be.

The tree always stays up until daughter's birthday on 8th January. She was supposed to be born on Boxing Day and big brother wanted the tree to be up when she came home from hospital. So now, we always leave it up until the day after her birthday.

I usually decorate the first weekend in December. My friends think I'm crazy because we don't actually stay at our house over Christmas i love the feel of Christmas though, so it's nice to decorate. I have lights strung up on the trees outside and I keep those up all year round.

If I'm home at Thanksgiving, the lights on my balcony go up on Thanksgiving Night. If I'm going out of town, I either put them up before I leave or wait till I get home.

I hesitate to have a tree anymore because I'm afraid it will be climbed. LOL

I also put out a lot of Christmas bric a brac, but I may have to rethink that since, as I noted in a different thread, my three kitties seem to view every flat surface in my apartment as yet another segment of The Track. LOL

There is a radio station here in Kansas City that started playing all-day Christmas music YESTERDAY. Blech. I think Thanksgiving is plenty of notice.

My parents never put up decorations before December 15. I'm not that much of a traditionalist, but I do find it ironic that even 100 years ago, most people waited until Christmas Eve to decorate and now there are wreaths and ribbons in the stores when it's still summer out. LOL

We aren't putting our tree up until Thanksgiving. We still have our Halloween lights on the balcony so Christmas lights won't get up for another week or 2.

Our neighbor put her tree up last night though!

I decorate for whatever holiday is that month, on the 1st of that month. (Like for Thanksgiving I would start decorating on Novemer 1st) No earlier! I don't know why, just the way my family has always done it!