When should you put up your Christmas tree?

When to Put Up the Christmas Tree

Here are suggestions and ideas:

• In some families decorating the tree on Christmas Eve day is a tradition.

• After Thanksgiving, but before Christmas. I put mine up during the 2nd week of December and take it down the day after.

• You put up your Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. This way you are celebrating for the birth of Jesus for a maximum period. You are preparing and showing respect and love for Him.

• The day after Thanksgiving is when stores put up their displays and decorations so they can maximize their advertising for Christmas. You should put them up whenever you like.

• Whenever you want to put your tree up. But I would say not before Thanksgiving. Or even wait until a few days into December before putting it up.

• This one is really a preference, but I usually start the ritual of finding a tree in the first week of December. It seems to be popular these days to start celebrating the holidays just after Halloween, but I like to wait until atleast the month when Christmas actually occurs. All in all, it's completely what you prefer.

• I don't know of any "traditional" date. I know that in my family, and in many of the homes in my community, Thanksgiving weekend is the tradditional time to "deck the halls." However, every family is different. I have known people who don't decorate until the week of Christmas (especially if they use a live tree); and this year, a family doen the street has just erected their holiday lawn display, and it's still 11 days until Thanksgiving!

• My whole life my family have followed the tradition of 12 days before Christmas, putting the tree up on 13 December and taking the tree down 12 days after Christmas.

• I put it up 1 week before Christmas and 1 week after Christmas I take it down.

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