When do you put up your Christmas Tree?
Just - unusually for me - popped on the TV during the day...... the Loose Women are discussing when folk put up their Christmas Tree.
When do you put yours up?? 😀 Now I'll sign off for a while, now I've lit the blue touch paper.... 🤣🤣🤣
David
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lol, My wife's birthday is 1st December and it's usually done a few days after that. While we both worked it was the first Saturday after the first but now it will be much closer to the 1st. We both love the Christmas season and want to have as much of it as possible.
Although I think the inside is easier than the outside? And I'll probably put the outside lights up but not lit a few days before then on a fine day and have the big switch on when the day the tree goes up.
Last year I noticed people in general put them up much earlier than in previous years as if to say lets have as much fun as possible during that horrible year? I wonder if that will continue this year.
But David a more contentious question is when do you take them down?
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Ours go up the Sunday before Christmas, last Sunday of Advent. There were odd years where it was before especially if it fell on Christmas Eve and I was catering for 10 or more on Christmas Day. Then tried to time it with Christingle when the children were young. Don't do outdoors, never have, but lights or tree in the front window. They come down Ephinany 6 January, so they're up for our wedding anniversary.
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More to the point can anyone tell me where my bag of last years leftover cards, and much more importantly, the Christmas address book have been placed? Lived in the same place for the last 36 years, but it appears in the sorting of shelves and cupboards ready for the removers to pack when the time comes they've make an escape!
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1st of December it was decided after intense discussion/negotiation. November(my choice) was too early😱, 1 week before Crimbo(OH choice) too late so we agreed on a compromise👍🏻. To me it’s a time of utter joy, last year was a testing time for us & a very low point, we both cater for many over 25th & 26th Dec.
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When you find them check if my Raffaello’s are there please B2 because I hid them on Boxing Day. . .I can’t find them anywhere either🤔🙄
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Ours are kept under the chair in the conservatory if that helps?
Our address book in on Access which then prints the out the address labels. I've suggested doing just one sticky label for the inside of the cards but apparently that is not on
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Ours goes up when I'm told to do it. Mrs eM then decorates it and the rest of the house. I love it when it all comes down again. I'm a bit of an old grump as all those decorations make the house look untidy.
To me the big question is has anybody else started on the important stuff yet, like food prep, and I don't mean putting the sprouts on.
Colin
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I loved Christmas when our boys and our grandchildren were small but these days not so much. Far too much ‘stuff’ going on that seems irrelevant these days! Not being a Scrooge but it’s no fun without little ones around, that’s when the magic happens, for me anyway. Don’t do much in the way of decorations and then only a few days before, and away straight after New Year. On the other hand I am ahead on the Christmas present front, having 4 grandchildren and one son in the Far East I do get the presents off early.
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We tend to put our tree up on the first weekend in December but we'll be cruising then and I feel that November is too early so ours won't go up until the middle of December this year.
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Ours is up already, but out on the patio in a tub, its a real tree but only approx 3ft tall, Gdaughter here for half term so she is going to add some more decorations, holly twigs etc.,
we have an abundance of berries this year , will probably bring indoors and add the lights, when daughter arrives from Spain for Christmas
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When I was a very young child it was frequently Christmas eve when the tree went up. My grandfather was a greengrocer who sold lots of trees. He always gave us one but we had to wait until he closed the shop and we would have a an unsold tree. If sales were going well I think he may have always put one in the back of the shop for us but never let on. One that still sticks in my mind was so tall it bent over where it touched the 8 foot high ceiling. For some reason no-one seemed to think about cutting a couple of feet off the bottom.
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Not at all.
No decorations.
One of the reasons we dont go away in the van at Xmas is because others decorate their vans!
When son was small tree went up once term finished. And down straight after Xmas.
Not being Christians, dont celebrate Christmas, and object at being made to!
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I don't think anyone will make you celebrate Xmas 'hja'.
By the way, for us its no tree, no decorations and no 'husband/wife' cards. What would have been presents to each other is donations to animal charities, this year its the hedgehogs charity again.
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Neither am I but I celebrate Santa coming-Dont you dare tell me he’s not real😕
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We have a very nice fake tree nowadays. The mess, price and what always seems a waste of cutting down a tree changed us from a real one. I tried umpteen years to get a “rooted” one to take, but no luck. It goes up around a week before Xmas.
What I do enjoy doing is foraging for real trimmings to make wreaths and swags. Our old house lends itself to this, and we have open fires/stove, so it helps make the house smell “Christmassy” to me. I used to love staying at Bolton Abbey just before Xmas, could always get some nice greenery there. Sadly, closes too early now.
Down no later than 12th night.
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I think there is a difference between Christmas the Christian celebration and Christmas the secular holiday. They can be as separate or as overlapping as one wants.
My daughter teaches in Bradford and all her Muslim children still look forward to and enjoy the 'christmas' holidays and traditions, and she even get presents and cards from them.
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Good on you…I just wish somebody would invent an App for a smart TV that would screen out all Xmas content.
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We have a similar 'tradition', in 2005 our middle daughter bought a very large Mum & Dad card which they all signed. Since then they have kept the same card and each year just add Christmas and the year on the second page. Brings a tear to my eye seeing all the years listed like that.
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Our tree is "up" aready, it's about five feet tall and has been happily growing in a large pot in semi shade near our back door. I don't think about it as a Christmas tree until we lug it in a few days before Christmas, it's got another three feet to go before a. we can't lift it up and b. it hits the ceiling. It's a Nordman fir so doesn't shed needles and sadly doesn't smell quite as good as some other types.
🎃🎃🎃 just a minute how did you lot get here....
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One year I took OH to a hostelry in a nearby village to celebrate her birthday on the closest Saturday to that date. The pub had a log fire gently warming the place and in the corner a fully decorated tree. It was 18th September. I've not seen that record broken yet.
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You should’ve said, there’s no point after the fact🤷🏻♂️🙄
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