When do you put up your Christmas tree?

Absolutely. Christmas is for the children and for the inner child in the adults, as far as I am concerned.

FANTASTIC FACT.  Thank you Mr Teacher.

[Forgive me if you is a lady, m'education / correctness is&was a bit wrank]

Thank you for sharing something that is really interesting.

I don't because it's just me. In the United States, the average American puts up a Christmas tree after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday of the month and celebrates the survival of the pilgrims in Plymouth following their first harvest in November. Of the 102 Engish who founded Plymouth in 1620, only 50 survived the winter due to poor shelter and insufficient food supplies. 

Lovely! ^^

Family getting together having fun is one of the best parts of Xmas for me. I mingle lol but after a while I have to escape to my bedroom but it's fun all the same. By the end of Xmas I'm exhausted

I still haven't started my shopping left it late again

I'm very pleased that your wife has 'begrudgingly' grown to like tinsel. I know there are some people who really don't like it and thinks it looks awful, but I think tinsel on a tree helps to make it look more Christmassy.

My non-autistic wife would be behind you 100% on the professional decoration. I prefer the child's view of lots of tinsel and colours - which she has begrudgingly grown to actually like.

I always used to aim for the beginning of December, but due to a tendency to want it looking almost as though it had been professionally decorated, I wasn't averse to taking everything back off the tree and starting again... and again. 

Ever since I was a young child, I have always loved looking at Christmas lights and decorations. My maternal grandmother wouldn't put her tree up until Christmas Eve, which used to horrify me. I'm very much of the view that if I have gone to the effort of putting up a tree and decorating it, plus the money I've invested in lights and decorations over the years, I don't want to be busting a gut taking it back down after a matter of days. 

I like the family getting together. Even before I was diagnosed, I would have to escape to a bedroom now and then to recover, but I love all of my family and wife's family.

I love the lights and decorations.

I don't like the shops at all. I tend to buy early. (I already have my wife's gift thanks to a friend here)

I love everything about Xmas except the busy shops where people elbow you out the way. Xmas shoppers go crazy to get the gifts.

What's your fave part of Xmas?

I'm glad that there is another Christmas lover (well, at least, tree lover)

We normally get our Xmas tree on the first weekend of December sometimes the 2nd depends how busy my dad is lolol.

Decorating the tree is always fun I like wrapping the tinsel all round the branches, my mum does the baubles and wall decs and my dads the poor sap who's got to untagnle the lights we got special lights which are meant to stay untangled and last year they were still tangled come Xmas it was hilarious!

I would love to put the tree up earlier but I don't think my parents will go for it ^^

Generally at the last minute and it's only up for about a week. 

It does this for me too - so frustrating!

I don't have a great concept of time so I'm not sure when my mom usually puts it up. Probably December? 

If I was in charge of it though my awnser would be never. 

Christmas trees can be expensive (depending on what you get), they take up space in storage during the rest of the year, take up space DURING the holiday too (and then you have to rearrange things), its difficult to assemble. Just inconvenient I think. Then it also will 'need' decorations.. Decorations usually equal glitter and glitter should not exist (it NEVER leaves. Causes many lovely panic attacks). The lights are bright too.

Anyway, I don't think the 'cons' of having a tree is worth the 'pros'. Pros being... I don't know. It's just a decoration from tradition or something.

One year my parents got a real-life tree and that was loads worse than a fake one. I wore 2 face masks + nose plug thing for the however many weeks it was up, and I still felt like I could smell it. Eating is difficult to do when your nose is not available. Also it probably had bugs and sap(? idk if Christmas trees have that) and we killed a tree just to have it for a month.

(Im just a Grinch )

I sometimes put my tree up somewhere at the start of December, sometimes the middle of December, Depending on how busy I am really. lol 

My wife has pretty much banned tinsel. For me the tackier, the better! Actually, my tack enthusiasm has rubbed off on her a little bit.

Yikes! Thankfully, our cats have never done that. Although they've caused enough other "problems" that we switched to hard flooring - so much easier to clean!

At my partner's insistence, we also don't put any tinsel on the tree - just baubles, other hanging decorations, and lights. Along with some large present-shaped soft toys around the base, to conceal it. But I do still get away with draping some tinsel over the bookcase :)

Thank you so much for sharing!

Full disclosure: I felt concerned about starting this thread because I really didn't want to offend or upset anyone (including you specifically) by talking about the season in what might seem to be an inappropriate or frivolous way. I hope you don't mind how I've approached it.

TheDog said:

It gets put on my desk on the first of November <3 

That's more like it! :)

TheDog said:

I don't put up a large Christmas tree anymore, mostly because it takes a lot of energy that I don't have.

Confession time. We're lucky enough to have a storage cupboard that's just about tall and wide enough to fit a fully assembled and decorated Christmas tree in it (if I bend the top and a few of the wider branches).

Admittedly, it took me quite a few years to realise that this was the perfect solution for my own decorating fatigue (I used to dread doing it, at both ends of the process) - but it's made things SO much quicker and easier. And I don't care if it's "cheating"!   

I usually put mine up around the last two weekends of December, I sometimes have to put it up undecorated for a few days so as cats can climb it and dogs pee up it, luckily we no longer have the greyhound who would pee up it, although I miss him loads and I think Muriel is old enough not climb it now.

Our tree is huge, a total extravagance of my Dads for the first family xmas when they moved here, we've not felt able to get rid of it since, it sits in the hall as we have nowhere in the living room suitable for it. I do love a xmas tree, I have so many old decorations, some belonged to my grandparents and every year I try and get another bauble. We have tinsel and fir cones around the bottom of the tree, none actually on it. It usually all come down around 12th night.