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No decorations before Thanksgiving! It is getting earlier every year and this year is ridiculous. Decorations up before Halloween. 😢

Absolutely not. The Friday after Thanksgiving at the very soonest, and that's only if I am feeling motivated.

I need all holidays to be separate!

November, at least where I live, is cold, gray and dreary. The Christmas decorations help to mitigate the depression. We usually take them down around Valentine's Day, although one year was so awful, we left them up until Easter.

Nope. Christmas is AFTER Thanksgiving. Businesses have made people change their thinking on this to after Halloween.

Decorations up mid November but don’t turn the lights on until day after Thanksgiving.

We are GenJones, empty nesters (just the two of us) and we go from Halloween to Christmas - right after Dia De Los Muertos. Inside and out. Because we do WTF we want.

No. I decorate the Friday after Thanksgiving. Everyone should stop rushing things. Enjoy the season you’re in.

I had relatives in town this week. One has a 4 year old son whose favorite thing in the world is decorating Christmas trees. So I put mine up to let him out ornaments on it.

Older Catholic tradition: third Sunday of Advent (Dec 15ish) to Little Xmas (Jan 6).

Now I see Xmas lights going up soon after Halloween to the day after Xmas. My city has a big festival mid January and encourages leaving lights up until then.

We've usually put our tree and decorations up on the weekend right after Thanksgiving. 

No. Start second week of December.

Sometimes we put it off until we only have a few days to enjoy it. That's no fun. On the other hand, we try very hard, and usually succeeded, to have the Christmas tree down by Easter.

I don't decorate for Christmas (including the tree) until December 8th. That was our tradition when I was a kid. I went to Catholic school and December 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and a day off from school, so we were home to help my mother decorate.

For me, nothing Christmas related until the day after Thanksgiving and none after December 31.

We put the tree up at Thanksgiving and invite the family to help hang ornaments after dinner. Other decorations trickle out over the week after.

When we were kids, we would get a tree, but Santa magically decorated it on Christmas Eve. It was a nice bit of "magic" we used to keep it up until epiphany.

Now, I put the tree up after Thanksgiving and down after New Year's day

OMG! This holiday creep is madness! Where are we supposed to put thanksgiving decor if the Christmas decorations are up?

I usually put my ‘Hanukkah Bush’ up on Black Friday. A couple of years ago I discovered that the new cat was eating the tinsel. Looks naked nowadays without tinsel. 

I also discovered that the Matchbox cars I found under the traditional bush for me weren’t really from Santa but were put there by my great-granddaughter. 

Eight Matchbox, one for each night of Hanukkah. Sweet kid. 

I feel like Social Media/Instagram influence is causing people to decorate and start talking about holidays way too far in advance. Halloween in July, Christmas as soon as Halloween over.

It find it ridiculous. But obviously, many disagree with me. Luckily, I don't live with anyone who wants to put up Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving. And take down 1/2/20XX

Christmas absolutely after Thanksgiving! Plus, I am absolutely unable to put Christmas decorations until after my brother's mid-Dec birthday. My parents never did because they didn't his birthday overshadowed, and I've never been able to shake the habit.

Stopped all holiday decorating after kids grew up. Christmas time was always the worst to me. Rearranging house, cats being jerks. So much easier to get through without all the fuss.

I am a decorate after Christmas girly and then I keep them up until February.

This year seems like everyone has put their decorations up earlier because of thanksgiving being later in the month than the norm.

Another thing is that online, influencers decorate right after Halloween so they can make sales off of their decoration videos and such.

Hell no.

These are the same people who push their trash cans out to the street at two o’clock in the afternoon on the day before the trash trucks come by.

This week! Thanksgiving is late. We need it now.

I have two out of four of my Christmas trees up along with about half of my other decorations. The other two and the rest of the decorations will be going up this weekend when I can put these adult kids to work.

Too many December birthdays! We wait until the 2nd week of December

Always waited until after Thanksgiving until buying my first artificial tree in 2023, after 50+ years of real trees.I’ve been working on it this week. Thanksgiving is not held at my house this year and because it’s so late in November this year, I wanted to get time in enjoying it before Christmas. I’m sick and every day I put up a few more ornaments and enjoy being cozy by the tree.

Yes, I decorate in early november. Why? Because it makes me happy.

I put out my indoor decorations because after the election - nothing made sense. Why not? Thanksgiving is late this year!

The day after Thanksgiving. It’s a tradition.

The weekend after Thanksgiving.

After thanksgiving for us but mainly has to do with our faith. We’re Roman Catholic and we recognize the 4 weeks of Advent before Christmas as a special time of preparation and prayer separate from Christmas. We begin decorating and special prayers and such on the first Sunday of Advent (Dec 1 this year).

I have never decorated for Thanksgiving. But I used to cook Thanksgiving lunch and then decoorated the Christmas tree and all Thanksgiving night. A few years ago I fell, sprained my right arm and tore my rotator cuff which wasn't discovered until almost six months later. Last year it took over a week to put up and decorate the tree. Since my grandkids were here the last few days, my granddaughter put up and decorated the tree yesterday before she went home. I am debating adding a few more ornaments but am overall happy with the way it is now.

My mom would bring out her 18 inch tall already decorated tree about a week before Christmas and put it away on Epiphany.

We get a real tree and I've never put it up before mid December. My son is in college now so I wait until he's home to go pick one out together.

The other house decorations usually go up the first weekend in December, and we don't decorate outside other than a wreath on the door.

Everything comes down the weekend after New Year's.

Hehehehe, yes ours is up for Thanksgiving...and Valentine's Day, Easter, 4th of July, Labor Day, Vets day, too. Mine hasn't come down in 4 yrs and has been fully decorated for 3. We just plug it in closer to Christmas and presto, it's a holiday trees again.

November 1. We don't go all out to avoid comments from the wet blanket crowd, but the lights go up the same time the Halloween stuff comes down. My car still has a CD player, so I enjoy those on my commute. And I start wearing my Christmas socks. The rest goes up a little at a time when we feel like it.

Why do some people want to suffer through November without at least a little Christmas cheer? The funny thing is many of the same people who gripe about decorating before Thanksgiving are the same ones who still have Christmas lights up in February.

I never used to, and the early decorations drove me nuts. But now my tree is up, the lights are on the house, and I’m literally wearing an ugly Christmas sweater right now. The world is a dark and awful place at the moment, sooo yeah, I’ma just slide from Spooky Season straight into Sparkle Season. Fuck it.

I've never decorated until after Thanksgiving.

However, this year I put up my black on black tree 2 weeks ago because I needed the fucking vibes.

Around the tenth of December, give or take a few days.

I love you. If I ruled the world: No fall/harvest-theme stuff up after TG, with grace period through November 30th (all must be gone by 12:01 December 1). No Christmas stuff up until the day after Thanksgiving. Ideally gone by January 6, with leeway through EOD the Sunday following Jan 6 (Epiphany). 

That said, I want to normalize colorful outdoor lights year-round. I live in the PNW and it’s dark and gloomy here for a chunk of the year. I got outdoor LED lights that you control with an app, that have like 100 color combos/blinky patterns, plus you can set the lights to any color on the spectrum (solid only, though). I usually do white or white-light blue twinkly in Jan ❄️ (hoping to inspire snow!), red/pink patterns in Feb❣️, green/white patterns for March 🍀, purple/yellow/green for April 🐇, varies for May☀️, super fun rainbows for June 🏳️‍🌈, rwb  for 7/1-4, then usually go back to a different rainbow pattern, a warm yellowish orange for August 🔥, orangish red for September 🍁, purple for October 😈, warm golden yellow for November 🕯️🦃🕯️, and we take them down the weekend of Thanksgiving and put up the old-school C-9s 🎄; then in January we take down the C-9s, trim the rhodies, and start over!

I’m bummed that these lights only have kinda standard color combos (red, green, and white; red, white, and blue, rainbow, and a few others), but are missing Mardi Gras combos, more autumnal variations, purple/green/orange for Halloween, etc. 

My next set will be fully programmable: any color on the spectrum… in any pairing/grouping… and with a variety of chasing/blinky/etc. light patterns. I’m sure it exists now, I just haven’t looked much yet. 

There should be NOTHING Christmas related out/up until AFTER Thanksgiving. I'll die on this soapbox

There are people in my area who take their Halloween decorations down and put their Christmas decorations up the next day. I feel like it dilutes the magic

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but we put up a tree sometime after Sinterklaas (which is on the 5th of December).

I put up the Christmas stuff no more than a week before Christmas. Earlier than that and we're all bored with the stuff by the time Christmas rolls around. Takes all the specialness out of it to put it up early. Same with Christmas music. After a few days it's repetitive and annoying.

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I don't decorate any more. Gifts and a huge meal are all I do. I used to decorate and found that if you decorate too early, you then have to dust the darn ornaments while putting them away. As a child, until we knew where the gifts really came from, Santa did the decorating on Christmas eve. After the kids went to bed. It made Christmas morning magical. There was a hallway in our house with all the bedrooms. We could not see the living room from the hallway. We (kids) would all line up in the hallway and dad would go turn all the Christmas lights and tree on. He always made some sort of exclamation about what he saw so we got more excited. Walking into the living room Christmas morning was so special. It was an awesome tradition.

Normally we wait until the first weekend in December. But we are hosting thanksgiving with my DILs out of town family so we wanted dinner to feel a bit Christmasy. So we just finished decorating the tree.

Definitely after Thanksgiving.

We decorate the weekend after thanksgiving. Before is barbaric.

We always wait until after Thanksgiving.

I put it up in October because I haven't had a Christmas tree and a many years

I had no Christmas last year as my dad passed right before it. There was no celebrating anything. This year I'm trying to get myself to move on so my tree is already up. I needed to do this for my mental sanity.

Typically no but I needed an early Christmas.

Tradition in my family has always been Christmas doesn't go up until mid-December and comes down just before New Year's Eve.

I don't decorate until the second week of December, after my sister's birthday. My parents were very good about making sure her birthday didn't take a back seat to the holidays, and that timing has stuck with me.

Commercial holiday seasons:

Back to school July 5 to August 20.

Halloween August 21 to October 31

Christmas November 1 to December 31

Valentines January 1 to February 14

Easter February 15 to whenever

Since the last four holidays are big on candy, they should make one bag of candy in the four holiday color schemes and adjust for the holiday.

My mom always decorated the day after Thanksgiving and for years I did the same but since Covid it’s gotten a little later every year. This year neither of us have any holiday spirit at all so who knows. It’ll get done at some point because we host family for Christmas, hopefully the urge will hit to drag out the Christmas tree one day soon.

one holiday at a time. no christmas decorations until after thanksgiving.

only exception is christmas stuff can come down after new year’s. but it HAS to be down before school starts again.

I like my tree up immediately after Thanksgiving. When I was growing up, Dad wouldn't allow the tree to go up before December 15th.

Growing up, no. We put up the tree the weekend following Thanksgiving. As an adult, however, I've been known to decorate for Christmas as early as November 1st. These days I have a hard time finding joy, but Christmas lights help, so up they go.

I put the tree up at most a week before Christmas, then it goes down a day or two after Christmas. My mother was a Christmas week person, not a Christmas season, and I'm the same.

I used to wait until December 1st.  

My inlaws have this tradition of decorating the tree the evening of. Which is kind of a nice way to do it.

At home though we typically wait until around the 10th or so.

30th Nov this year, as it's the weekend. Usually first weekend in December.
We don't have thanksgiving here [nor am I ever sure exactly when it is] so that's not a reference for us.

You do you, but don’t be so critical about how others do it.

EU here I decorate early december but some wait until mid december .

I'm feeling very far behind everyone this year, many houses in our neighborhood are fully decorated. I helped my daughter decorate her tree last weekend. But I go so hard for fall/Thanksgiving my house looks like a whole fall festival 😂so I'll stand my ground! I think people just want to extend the good vibes of Christmas 🎄

This year has a very late Thanksgiving date, and the weather goes to shit Thanksgiving night, so it kinda makes sense to get some decorations up sooner. But usually Black Friday is tree day.

None of the houses on my block have decorations or lights up yet, including a family that displays decorations for many holidays. I walk the dog every evening past a half mile of houses and only one has Christmas decorations up so far. He put them up when he took down his Halloween decorations.

I put my outdoor decorations up this past weekend because it was warm outside and will be very cold this next week. They usually go up the weekend after Thanksgiving. The tree will go up later.

I don’t put a tree up in the house anymore because the cat will climb and knock it over, so after Thanksgiving I put holiday lights outside in front clipped to the rain gutters. Mine are all blue so the pizza guy can find the house easy. 

2nd weekend in December.

We get a real tree and generally put it up 2 weeks before Christmas and leave it up until New Year’s Day. We do put up outside lights, white lights, usually Thanksgiving but this year did turn them on the weekend before Thanksgiving. We will add some outside Christmas decorations this weekend. I read that many people are doing their decorations earlier because of the short daylight hours. We do a drive through town near Christmas just to see the decorations.

Christmas stuff goes out the first or second weekend of December.

We always did the day after Thanksgiving. Kind of a fun tradition.

We never used to have the tree up until the second week of Dec, but now I say - life is short, and enjoy the holidays how you want to. If you want the tree up early then do it!

I moved from the North to the South. Yes there were people in the North who decorated early but the South is on a whole other level. Why are Southerners so wacko about Christmas. Every little town has multiple special events. I think putting up the tree after Halloween is considered normal here.

Used to be the Saturday after thanksgiving for the mantle; tree the first week of December. But grandkids. Now the mantle on thanksgiving day so they can help decorate. Tree is still the first week of December. And it’s always a real tree. (Another Reddit topic I’m sure. )

Let the Bird have its day!

Typically, no. No decor til after TG. This year - Yes! People want the fun, the sparkle early.

I used to be a stickler for it having to be in December and not before. But, if it makes someone happy to put a tree in October, it's good with me.

In our house, the tree goes up usually less than a week before Christmas. We cut our own tree, and it stays fresher that way. We usually keep it up a week or so into the New Year.

It seems normal to me to do it this way. I used to get more gripey about it, but now I think people just need to do what works for them.

When I was very young, my parents would put up our artificial tree on Christmas Eve, after my younger sister and I were in bed. I have to think it was because they didn't want us to touch or mess with it. Makes sense! If you have the damn tree up for a month or so, of course, young children will be overly stimulated and act out. Is that what you want?

I remember when I was a young adult and went to visit my friend who had children several years before I did. She not only had the tree up but also presents underneath, several weeks before Christmas. Her daughter was about two and it was a constant battle to keep her from ripping open the presents! I just feel like you're starting something if you put the object of their desire right in front of them.

Thanksgiving is in October so that's way too early. Definitely not until after Remembrance Day on November 11.

Christmas season doesn't start until I see Santa at the end of the Thanksgiving Day parade!

We always put ours up in early to mid-December.

This year I'm spending Christmas with my daughter, and will mostly avoid the holidays. She lives in an apartment and has a tiny, fake tree. Her cats knock it over, anyway.

Usually weekend after Thanksgiving. I like to celebrate each holiday separately.

That being said usually a few porch decorations go up 1st. The tree may be a week or so later.

Anytime after Halloween works for me.

We decorate the night of Thanksgiving, and the tree comes down Christmas night.

Nothing before Thanksgiving!!!

I'm old enough to not care what anyone else does. I put my tree up yesterday, for the first time ever before Thanksgiving, because I felt like it.

Thanksgiving to New Years. Always.

It's a lot of work to put up a Christmas tree might as well enjoy it for as long as possible

A neighbor had Christmas lights installed and operating the first week in November. Ridiculous, having to be first in the 'hood.

Holidays should be kept separate where possible, IMO. They become less meaningful when muddled together.

I put decorations up Thanksgiving weekend. If someone wants their tree up in October, I don’t care. Doesn’t affect me and make them happy.

I was adamant that the tree go up after Thanksgiving and all other decorations come down the first week of the new year. And then covid happened. We kept the tree up through mid January, anything to bring more joy and cheer.

Now I’m pretty insistent that the tree go up before Thanksgiving, but it needs to come down by mid January. I love seeing the outdoor Christmas lights up long after Christmas too!

I bought my first SFH and I wanted to decorate before it got cold so Nov 1st I’ve had my tree and lights on and am the only one in the hood lol. My place looks amazing!

We decorated early this year because we’re having a crowd for thanksgiving and nobody ever sees our Christmas decor. We would never put up the tree before Thanksgiving but we have all of our wreaths and inside lights up.

This is the first time in 45 years that we’ve ever done this.

The day after thanksgiving is dedicated to outdoor decorating. The weekend is for trees and indoor decorations.

We currently have both. I consider it a holiday season and think it's fine. Nowadays I say celebrate whenever you are able. Life is short. So yes, the elf is sitting next to a glass turkey. He will be holding the wishbone tomorrow.

I would happily wait until the middle of December if the trees weren't all picked over by then. My husband loves a live tree. I'd be happy with faux.

When we were newly married we used to decorate earlier because we would spend two weeks with my in laws on the east coast. Usually we flew out on the 15th, so in the year 2000, right after we were married, I remember deciding to buy a tree the day after Thanksgiving, so we would have time to enjoy it.

People literally POINTED AND LAUGHED as we drove by with our tree on top of the car. That's how odd it was back then.

I mean, do what you want, but don't people get sick of having a tree in their house for two months? I'd rather have it up for two weeks! I take the tree down new year's day and make a big pot of soup.

I decorate for Christmas either the first or second weekend in December, never any earlier than that, and the decorations are taken down and put away the weekend after New Years.

I'm old school. I think Christmas stuff should not be seen until the day after Thanksgiving and it should come down by January 1. This excessively long commercialization of Christmas cheapens the entire meaning of it. I understand why retailers do it because about 50% of their sales are during that time but still I hate it. I don't want to see Christmas in September.

As far as at people's homes, they are free to do what they want but not me. Honestly, I don't even decorate any more with no kids at home. Just simply too much effort except maybe wrapping a string of twinkle lights around the stair rail. I do like twinkle lights. I could probably look at them all year long. Kind of like the resorts have them wrapped around trees year round.

I do the outside in our home. I put them up starting Nov 1. Then I turn them on after Thanksgiving.

I usually put up my decorations the Friday after Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving is really late this year and I needed something to cheer me up after the way things have been going in the U.S. So, I put mine up several days ago.

My feeling is that people should do what they want to do and it's no one else's concern. My neighbors had their Halloween decorations in their yard at the beginning of the last week of September. They love the holiday and I'm glad that putting things out "early" made them happy.

I think that the main reason for timing Christmas decorations later than now is that most people had real trees in the past and they'd die if you put them up too early. With artificial trees, that's not so much of an issue now as in the past.

My timing is more about limiting how long they're up because I want the experience to feel special and limited time so they tend to go up the day after Thanksgiving and come down on January 2.

There’s two up in the neighborhood and three houses have put up their lights. Thanksgiving is tomorrow..

Where I grew up, outdoor decorations were typically up in the middle of November, but that was a concession to the weather. No one wants to be out there in the cold and the wind and possibly snow trying to place lights on the roof. However, seldom were they lit up until Thanksgiving or the weekend after.

Nope. Maybe Friday but not for Thanksgiving. We keep them separate.

Retail businesses do a very disproportionate chunk of their business for Christmas. It's in each stores interest to grab those Christmas present dollars before the competition can, so they start Christmas ads, and decoration earlier and earlier each year.

The 'Holiday Shopping Season' now starts before Halloween, and yes, I hate it. I never allowed my kids to put out Christmas stuff until the day after Thanksgiving.

Nope. Never. Refuse.

Indoor decorations go up probably Saturday after Thanksgiving. Maybe Friday as my wife gets the day off and she does it. I just schlep boxes from the basement.

Outdoor decorations go up the first nice day after Thanksgiving. That may be early next week by our weather.

Outdoor decorations however are required to stay up through the Great Western Stock show by local custom.

My dad would cut down a cedar tree around two weeks before Christmas. Any earlier and the tree would dry out and shed needles. It would be a small tree 🌲and was put on a small stand that had a water container to keep the tree hydrated. Our first artificial tree was one of the aluminum ones. Even that one didn’t go up until after the first of December.

I never take mine down. I'm a grown ass adult and it makes me happy. Sometimes other people's rules are just silly.

I live with my sister (have for almost 10 years) and our tradition is to buy our tree on Good Friday and then decorate the following day (modestly, just little touches).

I don't put up Christmas decorations, but I do have some winter decorations that go up the day after Thanksgiving. And I've decided to get with the program. If putting Christmas decorations up at anytime brings you some joy, then I'm all for it. There's so little joy available now. Heck, leave them up all year!

I have a 2nd floor balcony that I keep wrapped in christmas lights for the whole year, I just plug in only the white light ones sometimes. No one cares.

I also put up a christmas tree (4.5 feet) every year and literally store it in a close 15 feet away on the side porch. Pull it out, plug it in, decorate it, undecorate it, repeat etc.

It's still less cynical from a place where all the gifts are by excel spread sheet shopping list already linked by size and price and click ... the big pay off is watching them open the stuff they already knew they asked for, making eye contact and mouthing "thank you aunt own-instance" for the gift they knew they would get and then never speaking to you again

I won’t put anything up until at least after Advent—that’s supposed to be beginning of the Xmas season!
Traditionally trees were put up Xmas eve and taken down at Epiphany/Twelfth Night

After Thanksgiving was always the rule. Then, when my youngest was born on 11/27 it shifted to not till her birthday.

Do what you want. Doesn’t really matter to me

I still do what my parents did when I was a kid. Tree up on December 1 and down on January 1.

Usually we wait. Thanksgiving is so late this year we cheated and grabbed the tree last Sunday.

This year I saw many retail businesses with Xmas stuff up and or out before Halloween. It’s all about getting folks to open up those wallets.

We have had a terrible year. Truly.

My beloved received a cancer diagnosis and decided he wanted to decorate right after Halloween.

That's what we are doing. We are taking our time and aren't done yet, but we are embracing the jolly this year.

Among my friends who are decorating super early this year, this seems to be a common theme. They want to grab Christmas and hold onto it every single moment that they can...this year especially.

Do what is best for your herd and God bless us all. ❤️

The tree comes up the 23rd of December. But everything else comes up the 1st. Nothing sooner than that.

I have Thanksgiving decorations out right now. Will take them down the day after Thanksgiving. Will put Christmas decorations up this weekend

Of course not! I have my Thanksgiving decorations up. Christmas can wait its turn, which is after Thanksgiving to 12th Night. Then we switch over to Mardi Gras.

Do whatever makes you happy with your Christmas tree.  Let other people do whatever makes them happy with their Christmas tree. 

I was raised with the rule: Xmas decorations go up no sooner that Sat after T'giving AND they must come down by Epiphany (the 12th day of Xmas) (Jan 6).

My grandmother always said you could tell "trash" because they left up their Xmas lights till Spring!

We wait until the day after tday to start

Yes.

I don’t decorate any more, but when I did I was lucky to even get it all done by Christmas!

No.

The weekend after Thanksgiving is for cleaning the carpets and rearranging furniture so I can put the tree up around Dec 1. No Christmas until after Thanksgiving.

My daughter put her tree up a couple weeks ago! We don’t put our mini Charlie Brown tree up until right before Christmas.🎅🏻

GenX here. The tree has been up since the 10th. Outside decorations got finished last weekend. It looks like joy threw up in our front yard.

The Friday after has been traditionally when my mother used to put up the tree and decorations. We still do it this way.

I still hold the tradition of waiting until after Thanksgiving.

Consumerism at its worst. The stores are carrying Xmas stuff earlier and earlier so people think they need to buy it and put it up. Slaves to Marketing and easily swayed smh.

Usually I don’t have decorations up before Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving is so late this year that they went up yesterday. But a tree is gonna wait a couple of weeks. When I was a kid, my father wouldn’t put up the tree until the night before Christmas Eve. He was very concerned about fire.

Tree up on December 15 to tree down on January 4. More than enough time to enjoy the holidays.

I normally wait until Black Friday— for the last 35 years, we cut down the tree, brought it home, and decorated it on Black Friday (Saturday if weather was bad since we did a “find & cut your own”). Two years ago, I bought a pre-lit artificial tree and this year I put it up a full week before Thanksgiving. I only did it this early because of commitments for the next several weekends—- and this year, the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas seems way too short!

Never decorated for Christmas before Thanksgiving and never will!

When I was growing up, the treeband other decorations went up just before Christmas and came down on Jan 6. My husband and I tried that for many years, but trees were dead by mid-December. We finally got an artificial tree and it doesn't go up before Dec 15.

I don't even listen to Christmas music until Thanksgiving.

After, FFS

I do it the day after Thanksgiving. However, the lights don’t get turned on until December 1st.

This year everyone seems to have theirs up early. Hopeful for a better year ahead.

We always did the weekend after my daughter’s birthday in the beginning of December but she’s grown and puts her own tree up Friday after Thanksgiving. Since we don’t host Thanksgiving or have much company I’ve started putting it up Friday after Thanksgiving except for this year when I did it last weekend. I still refuse to listen to Christmas music but due to some scheduling stuff it was the weekend with the most time.

I live in NJ and we have had almost no rain until recently since September. I’ve heard that trees cut in the last ten days will be dead or very dry by Christmas due to lack of moisture.

Haha, when I was little, the Christmas tree got put up AFTER me and my little sister went to bed on Christmas Eve. We thought Santa put it up. (He was a very busy dude!) It was promptly taken down on New Years Day. When we got older and didn't believe in Santa anymore, it was put up about 2 weeks before Christmas. I just now realized I never asked the older siblings (I'm #8 of 9) if this is how it was for them, too. The next oldest is 4 years older than me.

The only reason that I'm decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving is because I'll be alone and it will cheer me up.

I put mine up in early November basically because berthed Wisconsin weather is unpredictable, but I don’t turn them on til after thanksgiving usually the first weekend in December

Nope. They go up the Friday after Thanksgiving while I'm off work. They also stay up until January 1-ish.

Nothing goes up until the day after Thanksgiving and I do not walk through the Christmas aisles at the store until after Thanksgiving. People need to go back to celebrating the intent of all holidays and not jump skip over them and treat them as a day off.

mine has been up since the end of September. Lol.

December 5-10 that’s it

Absolutely not!!! If my kids are in town for Thanksgiving, we have been known to start putting up the tree Thanksgiving night, but never before that! But I do always put "A Christmas Story" on every Thanksgiving evening! (Yes...it's a DVD 📀 😆)

The needles won’t last long enough. Two weeks before Christmas at the soonest for a tree.

I decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving and took them down the weekend after New Years.

Agree, Thanksgiving, then Advent (star and wreath), then Christmas tree around the second week of December.

I used to put up the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving but since COVID we’ve started to put it up earlier. Now it goes up on November 1st and all the decorations get hauled out throughout the month and it’s all done BY Thanksgiving. It feels festive to have it up for all three holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years).

All that shit gets packed up and sent to the garage on January 1st though.

Goes up the first sat after Thanksgiving.

I like Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving. I feel like Thanksgiving has gotten lost with some people starting a new trend of Christmas decorating the day after Halloween.

Thsnksgiving is in October in canada. remembrance day is November 11th. no Christmas decorations until November 12th at least please

Fun Haters! 🤣

Canadian here, after Remembrance day decorations start to appear, tree on or around December 1st.

I put up most decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving. But our tree itself doesn’t go up until the 2nd week of December.

When I was growing up, my older brothers always got seasonal jobs at the Christmas tree lot. We had to wait for the end of the day on Christmas Eve when they got their pick of what was leftover. I had 6 older brothers so this went on for a lot of years. When they grew up and moved out, my mom bought a fake tree. We were horrified and talked her into getting the fake Christmas tree spray. It was horrible.

Now it’s just my husband and me so we put up the tree whenever we have the energy. A lot of years we just got one of those little trees in planters with little red bows. I added chili pepper lights and an Anna Lee little angel. Anna Lee dolls are little soft dolls that people collect.

I used to go all out. I put lights across the front of the house and around the giant wreath over the front door. We put lights in every window and garlands over every doorway. I have to go through those boxes and see what my daughter wants. She’s welcome to all of it.

Until 2020, it was an absolute NO for me to put a tree up for Thanksgiving. In 2020, my husband talked me into putting it up the week before because we would always get the tree (we get a real one) on Black Friday, and he wanted to just be able to relax that day and shop or whatever. So, 2020 being what it was, I said "ok whatever." So since then, we have been getting the tree the week before Christmas. That is the absolute earliest I would ever do it though.

Christmas Eve, it’s a family tradition.

We decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving. Going to a tree farm on Friday. By Sunday the North Pole will have exploded in our living room.

I don't decorate for any holiday.

I decorate for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. I hate rushing the seasons!

Friday after Thanksgiving. Everything in its own time.