We sometimes did our tree on Thanksgiving and when I was very young, the tree of course had to be gone soon after New Year's.
Then, we got an artificial tree....
My mom would leave it up until the last day of January and I remember coming in after school a month after Christmas and still feeling that same awe that I had when it was first set up.
On bad days at school, it was very reassuring to me.
So, you guessed it. I decorate on or, as soon after Thanksgiving as possible and this year, am thinking, you know the last day of January sounds like a plan....
What is your routine?
2007-12-06 21:14:56 · 14 answers · asked by wider scope 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
We always have a real tree.....so we usually get it about 10 days before Christmas...I ususally take it down on New Year's or the week-end after New Year's! One year though, it stayed up until the end of February...of course we didn't light it, but it was just so pretty, I didn't want to take it our of the living room...but by then it was beginning to look pretty bad!
2007-12-07 01:35:24 · answer #1 · answered by Sherrie B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being Latvians we decorate in a small way on 24th December and celebrate on that day too. I remember my parents and grandmother would ban us from the living room, decorate the tree and put all the presents around. We would then have a meal and go to church - Latvian of course - and then come back to open our presents! The decorated tree, the sight of all the presents, the candles, everything made Christmas awe inspiring!
Now, it is just Mum and me. She hates the idea and drinks and snores. Me, I am gregarious and would love to spend Christmas in company, but my mother has no-one else.
2007-12-06 21:31:49 · answer #2 · answered by zakiit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Answer: Some time in early December I take the Wicker five pointed star off the highest point on the north wall and put in atop an artificial tree. There it sets thru Yule, and indeed some time in the mid of January. By that time I so want my den returned to its "comfortable" state that I relish re-boxing the decorations just a bit more than I did putting them out, in the first place.
2007-12-06 22:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by trumain 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
when i was growing up, we never decorated until christmas eve. it was always a big deal to wake up and go with our dad to cut a tree from our property. then we would help our mom decorate the tree, put out all of her snowglobes (she had tons of them), make cookies, and settle in to watch rudolph and frosty (because back then they didn't come on in november like now).
the decorations came down the day after christmas -bright and early. so the 48 hours we had christmas in our house was wonderful. i think we appreciated it more than now when it's all up for months on end.
this year, i have only put up a tree and a wreath. i probably wouldn't even have done that except my home is for sale and the real estate person told me to.the holidays don't hold the same sparkle they did as when i was a child.
2007-12-06 22:39:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i love real trees,however, after three years of my dog knocking it over, we now have an artificial tree. it is pre-lit and quite easy. we set it up between thanksgiving and Christmas. take it down the first week of January. i love sitting in our living room with only the tree lit up, what a warm feeling it gives, especially when there is snow falling outside our picture window.
2007-12-07 00:33:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was going to put it up later then I decided yesterday to see if I could get into the christmas spirit and I did some christmas shopping and decorated for christmas yesterday and I do admit I feel better. I usually take it down and put all of the decorations away.
2007-12-06 23:03:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Decorations go up Christmas Eve and come down on Boxing Day (the 26th) if I have no visitors.
2007-12-06 21:23:41 · answer #7 · answered by Ladyfromdrum 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ours is the weekend before Christmas if 25th is on a weekend, or the weekend before that if its during the week. The we take ours down on the 6th January, its bad luck to leave it up!
2007-12-06 21:22:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Up first Saturday in December, down on twelfth night
2007-12-06 22:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by anne b 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that's what the repo men did to my kinfolk while i grow to be a splash youngster, different than they did no longer hide in the closet, that's solid with the aid of fact then my dad had a secluded place to hold close himself later that nighttime.
2016-10-10 11:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋