What is the correct date in December that you can put up you Christmas decorations?

Answer 1

Depends whether you are common or not.
Commoners already have theirs up.

(My stupid brother in law put his up on the 12th November, but he is a knobhead!)

Answer 2

There's a correct date? Around here the folks put up X-mas decorations the week of Thanksgiving. I find that to be a little bit early but you can put up your christmas decorations any time you want. The only possible exception would be living in a condo or townhouse community where there is a committee that makes all kinds of ridiculous rules about what you can and can't do on your own property. If you live in one of these communities you'd best call the committee chairperson and find out when you can start decorating.
LL

Answer 3

I don't think it matters. I put mine up today. Will take a couple more to get all the decorations on it.
I had an Auntie who did her's Christmas eve. Still others do it round the first of December.
I do mine when I have a bit of time.

Answer 4

Whenever you get good and ready. There is NO "Correct date in December" in fact,we put ours up and have them ready to turn on the Friday night AFTER Thanksgiving,then go to the Holiday Kickoff in which the town's lighting of the lights around the square(we are from an old Victorian Town in NE Kansas) and each store has a window display contest of the Christmas theme picked for that year,and you have to try to guess what each of the window's represent with that Holiday theme(for prizes). Also,the local Chamber of Commerce has a soup supper(free -will donation) with different kinds of soups,along with cinnamon rolls, celery and carrot sticks, saltine crackers,and your choice of coffee,hot tea,or hot cocoa for the drinks. The stores have cookies and hot cider,or hot cocoa,and some even have popcorn(the bank has a HUGE popcorn making machine) It has been a ongoing thing for years and years,and the Highlight of the night is when SANTA comes into town and hits the switch that turns on the lights and music(Christmas carols). Then later on,there is a local Theatre Group that goes around the Square(dressed in the Victorian Period Clothing) singing the Christmas Carols along with the music that is playing from the speakers outside the courthouse.(if we are lucky,it begins to softly snow too) It is quite a deal from where I am from. Every single town in USA should have something like this for a Family Outing that is almost free of cost,and especially fun and Memory making.

Answer 5

There's no actual "correct" date, but it seems like most people put up their decorations anywhere between the day after Thanksgiving and around December 10 or so. You want to be able to enjoy your handiwork for at least 2 weeks, and for God's sake, please take your Christmas lights down by at least the day after New Year's! I am so sick of having to see Christmas lights on houses until April!!!!!

Answer 6

Personally, I don't think there is any "correct" date to put up your tree and decorate. When I was a kid, my family and I would go the day after Thanksgiving to our local tree farm and cut down our own tree and decorate it in the evening with Christmas music playing in the background. It was a great memory. I think it just depends on what you think and what sounds like a good time for you.

Answer 7

Very strictly speaking, Christmas decorations should not be put up until Christmas Eve, then they are traditionally taken down again on Twelfth Night (5th January). However, I have read in very old books that it is OK to leave them up till Candlemas (2nd February)! Liturgically speaking, the Christmas season (Christmastide) lasts from the afternoon of Christmas Eve till 5th January (because the following day is Epiphany).

Outside church, however, my family and others we know put decorations up about a week before Christmas and take them down in the first few days of New Year.

Shops in London have been known to take their decorations down before Christmas, to get ready for the sales (which often start on Boxing Day)!!!

Answer 8

I think putting up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving is too early, but anytime AFTER Thanksgiving is a good time. As for a correct date - I've never heard of one.

☆MERRY CHRISTMAS☆

Answer 9

For some its the day after Thanksgiving and to others it that weekend, but there is really not time to start decorating, However if the Advertising agencies have their way it will be just after Halloween. After all that's when the Christmas stuff comes out for us to buy, so why not then?

Answer 10

Real answer: any date you wish or the local or family custom. I like to put mine up a least a week or two before Christmas and leave it up through New Year's, but some people put it up on Christmas Eve and take it down on Christmas night! So there! It also varies with you faith and its customs. NOTE: It is considered to be very gauche to leave your outside Christmas lights up all year long where I live.

Answer 11

According to my mom, between December 16-24th. Of course, her b-day is the15th and doesn't like having her birthday crowded out by Christmas. Then she had my sister on December 26th...there's just no getting around that one. lol

Some people leave them up all year, most sometime between Thanksgiving & the first week of December.