*** The official "I've put my tree up early" thread ***

I've connected up some of the external house lights already but my excuses is that it's North Sweden and since the clocks went back it's stupidly dark.

Winter here is awesome and completely **** at the same time :p
 
ED209 said:
Our tree goes up on the 1st of December and comes down on the 25th of December in the evening.

I live in a bungalow so a month (well 25 days) of the tree being up its good to get it put away and reclaim what little space I have left in the front room
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you take the tree down on xmas day night? I've never heard of that before, fair play. I'd at least wait till the morning of boxing day.
 
lakitu said:
you take the tree down on xmas day night? I've never heard of that before, fair play. I'd at least wait till the morning of boxing day.
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I do, well the other half does as I am too buy building Lego which we have got my son for Christmas lol

As mentioned, its only done because of the lack of space we have in the front room and by this point we are more than happy to pack it up.

We also have 4 cats so god knows how its going to survive this year
 
Will be the weekend of the 30th/1st

Not sure if we're having the artificial tree(s) or real this year as we are away over Xmas
 
Funny, I was thinking about that today.

Not long now.

I used to love Christmas when I was a kid. Not so much now, my family are all dead. BUUUT, I still like to make the effort. :)
 
Decorating takes time, so I want my money's worth for my effort, and the build up to Christmas is way, way better than the post-25th aftermath, when you realise Santa isn't bringing you what you wanted, after all, and everything suddenly feels tired and mildly depressing. Of course, that's easy to say now I'm not in retail any more and dreading the endless Christmas songs and consumerist addiction. I used to have really bad seasonal humbuggery. #NotThatKind

So now I start decorating on the anniversary of my Mum's death on Nov 15th, and steadily jolly the place up until the tree goes up on Dec 1st (a man gotta have a code! #Omar). But I may start putting (white only) lights up sooner, outside. Long, dark evenings need a bit of cheering up. Coloured ones from Dec 1st, only, though. Them's the rules.

By New Year's Day it'll all be gone, ready for a fresh new... er, miserable January. :D
 
I live alone, so no.

I put some lights up in the window to show my fellow neighbors that I am not a scrooge. Then they keep falling down because the tape has come off, they get tangled in the window blinds. I put them back up but don't make a big effort of it. then i go out the front and realise they look like a droopy pair of boobs
 
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Wow. This is crazy. You guys have Xmas decs up before December??christof Christmas tree is in his 7th or 8th year with us now. As he's alive he can't come in too early. He's lost his Christmas tree shape.

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If it was up to my missus we would - I'm normally on high-alert in November and have to keep warning her not to do it. She normally gets her own way around the last week of November. She is 54 years old :rolleyes:
 
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