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When Should Christmas Decorations Go Up?
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As I am sure you've noticed, many stores have had their Christmas decorations up since well before Halloween. Even Ellie - who loves Christmas like an eight-year-old should - is annoyed by that. Her dislike of this premature hall-decking may have been influenced by my own feelings on the subject, but still. October is orange and yellow, not red and green.But now that we've got Thanksgiving under our belts, I think we can legitimately consider hauling out the holiday decorations. Or can we? I've been asking around to see when my friends and neighbors feel is the right time to begin bedecking and the results are mixed.
Just about everyone agrees that any time before Thanksgiving is just jumping the gun. Many start stringing lights and trimming trees the day after Thanksgiving. Others prefer to wait until about two weeks prior to Christmas. I've settled on a compromise. My outdoor lights are going up this weekend. The indoor stuff will wait until mid-December. When do you deck your halls?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
11-30-2008 @ 1:17PM
SKL said...Why would it be anyone's business when you put up your decorations?
We keep our decorated tree and some nativity sets up all year long. Outdoor stuff gets done whenever we get around to it, as early as the first real snow, or as late as Christmas Eve.
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11-30-2008 @ 1:18PM
Jenni said...Christmas music begins playing as soon as the Thanksgiving dinner is done; by that I mean everyone has rolled away from the tables and people have begun to clear the table. What better way to clean up after a huge meal than with Christmas music playing the background and singing along.
Decorations go up the following weekend, although I usually cheat and put out the nativity scene the Monday afterwards and things slowly go up after that, but the weekend is the big work: tree, lights, big decorations that take time and effort to put out.
Everything comes down January 1st; but again, things get slowly put away the day after Christmas so that by the 1st, there isn't much left to do and it's all ready to be stored for next year.
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11-30-2008 @ 1:42PM
CLM said...Indoor and outdoor goes up about 2 weeks before Christmas. It all comes down January 6.
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11-30-2008 @ 1:54PM
BV said...I absolutely love Christmas and want to stretch it out as long as possible...within reason. We get our tree and decorate the very first weekend in December every year. Not a minute sooner. That pretty much gives the entire month of December a Christmas celebration for us, which I feel is very appropriate for the most important birth in history.
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11-30-2008 @ 2:46PM
Inger said...Day after Thanksgiving everything goes up! The whole house cleaned from top to bottom, I even got almost all of my shopping done as well.
Merry Christmas, all!
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11-30-2008 @ 3:07PM
rebecca Biernesser said...B/c of the traveling we did this year, my tree was put up two weeks ahead of thanksgiving. I wanted it done for when we came home Thanksgiving night and when we started blk friday shopping. I finished decorating with my Mom last night and now we are ready.
btw, it shouldn't matter what others think, I believe it's your home...
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11-30-2008 @ 4:51PM
T.J. Bandla said...I live in central new york, where snow can start flying before Halloween (You know it's a real CNY winter when the guys in the blue coats show up ie: the Weather Channel guys). This year, I put up my lights right around the 1st week in November. NOTHING kills the holiday spirit faster than having to try & string lights in 40-mile an hour windstorm while it's snowing...
As for turning them on, I subscribe to the Thanksgiving evening rule - it's the 1st holiday of the season, so I think it's ok.
Happy Holidays!
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12-01-2008 @ 1:48AM
Kathy said...We aim for right after Thanksgiving, but we're happy if they get up in time for Christmas. For example, we meant to do it today, but my husband's laptop crashed and he had to go in to work. So, it'll be next weekend...I think...
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12-01-2008 @ 1:57PM
Kirstie said...The lights get hung up the day after Thanksgiving, but when they get turned on varies - usually when we see another house on the block starting to turn on theirs, lol!
Indoor decorations start going up at the same time, because quite frankly my mother and I are both insane and we've got a thousand tchozkes, and it's easier if I'm home from college for Thanksgiving to help out!
The tree usually gets done the day I get home from college, or the day after (and I'm praying for a FAKE tree this year, my allergies can't take a second year of a real one!), and everything stays up/turned on until Little Christmas (the irish term for Epiphany), which is Jan. 6.
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12-02-2008 @ 5:52PM
Crystal said...We always waited until the week or 2 before Christmas to get the tree and all the decoration up.
Last year, the day after Thanksgiving we found ourselves with nothing to do, and ended up getting the Christmas tree.
And I LOVED IT. I loved having the holiday decor up for longer. It didnt feel as rushed, and I really enjoyed the good feelings it brought.
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12-05-2008 @ 9:59PM
Mike said...Mine just went up yesterday (Dec. 4th). We did the tree, a ton of outdoor lights and some lighted lawn ornaments. I'd like to have gotten them done right after Thanksgiving, but didn't have time.
I don't like seeing the early Christmas push in the stores either, but at least it gives us a chance to buy things ahead of time. This year, all the good lights and ornaments were sold out shortly after Thanksgiving!
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