When should christmas tree go up.

munckee

I'm firmly in the camp of put it up christmas eve and take it down christmas morning after the kids have had their presents.  Missus Munckee is dropping little hints that loads of people we know are putting their trees up tomorrow in November!!  She is a crafty f#cker and she is only saying this so she can get the tree up next weekend (by saying the kids a re desperate for it, they're not.) as there is no way you can put it up this weekend surely?

When does the tree go up?

chillidoggy

God, give me strength!

My missus can't wait to get her FOUR fuck-off trees and about 5 tonnes of decorations on them. She's now on about buying yet another bastard, and whilst I don't mind one tree, it's getting fucking ridiculous, because there's only me and her in the poxy house.

You have my deepest etc, etc.

LuttiS

I like to get it in January.. You can usually get them for free and if you're lucky might even have a bit of tinsel on so you don't need to decorate.

Wife disagrees. She wants in 1st-2nd week of december..

Kilgore

Ours are going up today. Big ones in the living room and kitchen/diner. Little ones all over the house, even the utility room.

BRISTOL86

If I had my way it wouldn’t be until 10-14 days before Christmas. 

Suffice to say I will not get my way. 

Sporky

It should go up during my last work day and come down before New year's Eve.

not_the_dj

Early December.

chillidoggy

Sporky said:

It should go up during my last work day and come down before New year's Eve.

Excellent idea, Sir!

I shall tell my missus she can put all the trees up she wants, as long as the bastards are in my office over said period.

Bellycaster

November 13th, according to our local Sainsbury's.

ICBM

Up on the last weekend before Christmas and down on the first weekend in January, unless Jan 6th is the second Saturday.

fob

Ours goes up about a week before (whenever's convenient depending on the day Christmas falls) and generally comes down on 2nd Jan so that the house still has a festive feel during New Year's Eve/Day.

edit - putting it up in November does seem a bit ridiculous. Next year I'd be tempted to hammer the point home by getting the biggest tree I could find and put it up in October.

Legionreturns

Never. Xmas can fuck off

CHRISB50

Up first weekend of December due to my kids hassling. Down as soon as I can justify it. 

One of our cats eats tinsel so it's a pain in his arse to have up. 

munckee

Bizarrely despite her desperation to get the tree up missus munckee always wants it down day after boxing day.  Thats what you get when its up for weeks, sick of Christmas. I agree with ICBM I don't even want to think about xmas until I have no more work days before it.

She won't get a pre-lit tree either, thats too easy.  She doesn't put the lights on of course!

Stevepage

1st December for me. That's our wedding anniversary so it works together quite nicely (and I've just realised I need to get her a present!)

slacker

Until last year the tree went up the the last Sunday before Christmas as Mrs S would declare that she was getting a real tree from the caravan site down the road and not actually get one, for weeks. So on the last Sunday she would go out for the day giving me instructions to get a small tree from said site. 

I would arrive to find that all the small trees had gone but I could get a big one for the same price. I would have to rope the golf hatch shut, drive it home, manhandle it into the garden, saw off 3 feet from the bottom, saw off the spindly bits off the top, drag it into the house, find it was still too tall, saw off more so it was touching the ceiling. 

Mrs S would arrive home after I finished and tell me off for getting a big tree. 

Last year I got a plastic tree, decorated it and went Christmas was over, put it in the loft, fully decorated and with lights on. This year it can come out when Mrs S  likes as it will take 5 minutes to install it in the living room and it goes back fully decorated. 

Nunogilberto

Not in fucking November, that's for sure.

Phil_aka_Pip

Not before Christmas Day minus one week. In our house that meant not before my mum's birthday (18/12). These days I save taking-down time by not putting them up in the first place.

RandallFlagg

I love how miserable we all are about Christmas

munckee

Stevepage said:

1st December for me. That's our wedding anniversary so it works together quite nicely (and I've just realised I need to get her a present!)

Lucky its black Friday!

ICBM

RandallFlagg said:

I love how miserable we all are about Christmas

I like Christmas.

However, I reserve the right to not like it when it's not actually at least close to Christmas, when it's over-commercialised, when it involves unwelcome visits from relatives, when post-Christmas sales start before Christmas, and most of the other crap that seems to go with it now.

But that's because I'm now officially a grumpy old man.