When do you put your xmas deco up??

[heymamma]

Hi all,

I was thinking bout putting the xmas decorations up on the weekend,, I just feel like xmas comes & goes way to fast... so i wanna make the most of it.
When do you put yours up??

[mum23girls]

We put ours up Dec 1 and take down Jan 1.

[Lirael]

um, december some time. I only have a tree its fibre optic so we have to keep an eye on the kids:rolleyes:
I really need to get more decos I just forget about it and by christmas time I have spent all my money on presents and food:D

[AshleighsMum]

I always put my Christmas tree and decorations up on the 1st of December and send my chrissy cards out in the first week of Dec as well.

I am not quite sure what we will be doing this year as we have just moved back to our home town (after living in sunny Brisbane for 7 years) and are currently living with my parents until we can find a house to buy. So I dont want to be treading on my mum's toes by doing anything "my" way.

[Mum&bubs]

Yep we also have ours up on December 1st & taken down Jan 1st :thumbsup:

[westerner]

wow its only november :eek:.. your very eager.. we do the 1st of dec and take it down 1 jan...

dont want to much of a good thing IYKWIM...

my local chemist put theres up 1 1/2 weeks ago in the middle of oct... now thats just ridiculous...:shame:

[shell13]

[quote=mum23girls;771806] We put ours up Dec 1 and take down Jan 1.


Ditto!

[Ruby Slippers]

The 25th of November I don't get sick of it ,
I love it.:yelclap:

[Niki]

Yep we also have ours up on December 1st & taken down Jan 1st :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: same with us

[mum2bubba]

Usually Dec 1st.

[Shazbutt]

I put ours up at the end of November or start of December...whenever i feel like it! Always down on January 1 though....bad luck otherwise....:D

[1+1=5]

we put it up on the 6th of december (DH's birthday is on the 5th and he has a complex about sharing his birthday with christmas :confused:, so we put the tree up the day after his birthday) and take it off in the first week of january some time.

[SassyDiva]

We put ours up on the 6th of December...It nearly kills me to wait, but it's DS2's B'Day on the 5th of Dec so I dont think it's fair to combine the 2 events..Let him have his special day first

[my_lot]

we put ours up last weekend of nov.

comes down 26th or 27th dec. (before we go on hols)

we have friends that take it down christmas night because when one of the kids was little she cried and cried boxing day morning because santa didnt come again :laughing:

[~Chick79~]

For as long as I can remember our tree went up on the 1st of December and got pulled down on boxing day.

[SassyDiva]

we put it up on the 6th of december (DH's birthday is on the 5th and he has a complex about sharing his birthday with christmas :confused:, so we put the tree up the day after his birthday) and take it off in the first week of january some time.


:laughing: LOL, snap.... Your DH's mother must have done the same as Im doing with my son....waiting till after his special day..So one day his wife can complain bout me :laughing:

[~mia&ryan~]

Up 1st december down 1st january:thumbsup:

[babylover111]

We put ours up on the 1st of December, and take them down on around the 15 of january :o

[Jem]

goes up dec 1, goes down jan 1 ;)

[sugar n spice]

1st dec and deco comes down sometime in january when we get around to it, but we dont have heaps up. I love christmas.

[Jem]

Why do you want to do it a month early Kel :confused: My boys make enough mess of the tree for the month that its up.. poor thing looks a bit sad around xmas :laughing:

[Oscar's mum]

I will be putting the tree up probably end of this month and the tree will probably come down again on boxing day.

[Mell]

We put ours up the first week end in december and take it down the first week end in january.:thumbsup:

[Miaow]

I'll probably wait till the 1st Dec - Everyone seems to be talking about Christmas already and the shops are getting stuff up so it does sorta seem like its a lot closer than it is

[babytoo]

Ours goes up when the Adelaide Xmas Pagent is on (anyone know the date?) I am an ex adelaidian and thats the date we always put the tree up...go to the pagent and come home to put it up! We take it down on the 1st of Jan....

[Mahjong]

Usually about 2 weeks before Xmas and take them down new years day.

[candice_bree]

I go with tradition, i put up the 1st of December and take down the 2nd of January!!

Apparantly if you do it this way, it brings good luck to your festive season!!

[A Party of Five]

We put up are tree and decorations up on the 1st December and don't take it down until the 31st of January. I also send my cards and any overseas gifts in the first week of December too.

My birthday is the 23rd of December and it never bother me having the Christmas decorations up :D

[Baybee]

We put ours up on the 10th of December. My birthday is on the 9th so when Iwas little Mum thought it was fair to wait till after my birthday to focus on christmas. I guess the tradition has stuck. The decos come down whenever I have time after chrissie or when I can't get away with having them up anymore:o I hate taking them down.

[heymamma]

Why do you want to do it a month early Kel :confused: My boys make enough mess of the tree for the month that its up.. poor thing looks a bit sad around xmas :laughing:

Cause we have a new tree & i cant wait to see it...im like a big kid...lol,, Might wait till end of Nov.:)

[Blairsmummy]

We used to put ours up after my birthday on the second of December, but now I guess we will need to wait until the 16th of December so it is after Blair's birthday. Otherwise the birthday always seems to take a backseat to Christmas and that's not really fair.

[A Party of Five]

Otherwise the birthday always seems to take a backseat to Christmas and that's not really fair.

As I said my birthday is the 23rd of December. And my Mum, Dad, family and friends never made me feel like my birthday was not as important as Christmas. The only thing we did different was have my birthday party a week before. As a kid I did not care that my birthday was just before Christmas, it just made it more exciting. Heaps of family and friends around and partys to go to. And as you I get older it just gets better. As soon as you say it your birthday, you gets heaps of free drinks when you are out :D

[Jem]

Cause we have a new tree & i cant wait to see it...im like a big kid...lol,, Might wait till end of Nov.:)


lol.. ya big kid! :p

[Lirael]

the Christian tradition..would be taking it down on January 6th. Thats the 12th day of christmas.

It is the day the tree wise men arrived into bethlehem and so jesus was baptised..


HUH??

[shorty_851]

We put ours up 1st DEC and take down 1st JAN.

When i was little we use to just be to lazy to take it down so it would stay up till about march. LOL.

I just can't wait for Christmas this year for some reason.

[aardvark]

Not before the start of Advent (1st Decmber), and then I like to have it all packed away if we are going away at New Year, otherwise it stays up no later than the 6th of January.

I usually order my fresh Christmas Tree for mid-late december so it still looks good at Christmas.

[Lirael]

lol...whats huh???

Its just a christian tradition..sorry didnt mean to offend just thought I woudl add it in..

Its the last day of the celebrations..

not offended just wondering where that came from?

[tjrmum]

:smiliedance: 1st of Dec. :smiliedance:

and I "try" to take it down the 1st of Jan :laughing:

[Jem]

Ooooh i have a Q..

How much do you guys spend on the tree + decorations?:D

[Tubbychook]

:) Great post I love xmas and now that my son is here its going to be even more fun. I am dieing to put the decos up and if i was still in my own place i would most proberly be doing it very soon but we are living with my parents until after xmas i think so we will have to wait until they are ready i want to make my own xmas cards with ds sitting in front of the tree so hopefully mum will let us decorate a week or 2 early but for her its usually the 1st of dec. I cant wait for our first xmas as a family so heres hoping i can hold out for another month. Gee only one month to go wow has time flown

[Lirael]

Ooooh i have a Q..

How much do you guys spend on the tree + decorations?:D



$50 :laughing: Im not allowed to spend much til we have our own house. Im thinking this year I will secretly buy stuff when DP isnt around:devil6::D

[Lirael]

no probs..sorry must have been a little vague..as usual.

The Ephiphany or little christmas is the date in which the 3 wise men arrived at bethlehem to see the newborn baby.
It is then he was baptised and so ends the christmas celebration.

the christmas celebration is tradionally 12 days long form the 25th december - the birth to the date the wise men arrived.

oh right. wonder why I dont know that??

[Jem]

$50 :laughing: Im not allowed to spend much til we have our own house. Im thinking this year I will secretly buy stuff when DP isnt around:devil6::D


lol.. thats about what a i spend too :o

[Moorish]

We put our tree up early Dec and we try to take it down early Jan.
Jan is a HUGE birthday month in our family so it doesn't seem relevant to still have the Christmas tree up then!

Although I do postpone taking it down for as long as possible because I just absolutely love the festive season!

[Briannabear]

We put up decos on the 1st of December. Cant wait!! :smiliedance:

[SweetSerenity]

We used to put ours up after my birthday on the second of December, but now I guess we will need to wait until the 16th of December so it is after Blair's birthday. Otherwise the birthday always seems to take a backseat to Christmas and that's not really fair.

Our boys have the same birthday! But Peters a year older :D

We'll be putting ours up on the 1st December...BUT i really want to now!!!
Im so excited too Heymama!!! I love christmas!:yes:

[subaruforestermum]

I read in another thread about a lady from adelaide would put it up after the christmas padgeant....we too use to do this, but now living in QLD, I get lost by the time......as we dont have a padgeant to follow by.......oohhh I miss going to the christmas Padgeant.....:crying:

Anyway last year it was put up 2 weeks before Christmas...this year Im not sure cos our little man is up running around getting into everything.......

[~EmsMum~]

ill probably put them up sometime around early december

[joe]

I only have one Christmas decoration and it is my blow up tree - shouldn't be too much of an effort for me to put this up on the 1st December :laughing: .

[missmum05]

I didnt really give this much thought but might put mine up 1st dec cant wait but I am bit worried bout dd pulling the tree over and picking all the decorations of it :laughing: last xmas she was so little and I didnt have to worry bout it :D

[EskimoMumma]

I refuse to put up any christmas deco(outside the house that is) until there is snow darn it! Its not the same! (I grew up in Alaska, beautiful place for xmas!)

That said I put my tree up around the last week of november, that way, when i need more tree decorations, i can still buy them cheap ;)

I take the stuff down boxing day :o

[Ana Gram]

There are a lot of us who put up on Dec 1st and take down on Jan 1st, there has to be some sort of tradition coming from somewhere!

[Niki]

There are a lot of us who put up on Dec 1st and take down on Jan 1st, there has to be some sort of tradition coming from somewhere!

yea thats wat i was thinking too

[Little Gorilla]

we put it up on the 6th of december (DH's birthday is on the 5th and he has a complex about sharing his birthday with christmas :confused:, so we put the tree up the day after his birthday)

hahahaha, I'm like that too...my bday is at the end of november and i don't even want to see one decoration or tree or ANYTHING christmasy until my bday is well and truely over:shame:

[Shakey]

I put mine up on the 1st of dec and take mine down sometime before 12days after xmas,

[tanni_83]

does anyone have any tips on keeping our trees and presents safe from walking/distructive children. I can just see it now that elise will pull off every decoration in her reach and then the tree will probably get pulled down onto herself in the process....scary stuff!!

[Lambie]

Firstly we have to take down the lights from the front of the house before we can put them back up...LOL. Have been up now for 2 years:eek: :rolleyes:

Have told DH that they need to come down after this xmas as DD and I need to have a good ol' chuckle at him putting them up next year...:thumbsup: :laughing:

[SwedeMom]

We put ours up Dec 1 and take down Jan 1.

Same as you mum23girls... I don´t wanna get it up to early, I´m afraid to get tired of it before Xmas starts, and once Xmas is over they go down.

[meags]

we put ours up on the first weekend in december and take them down new years... cant see through the new year with xmas decos up is what i think...

[MummyCharmzy]

this year we wont be putting much up at all, we move dec 15th so would have to pull it all down again and put it back up and in all honesty I think we will have enough to unpack without trying to decorate as well! The kids can enjoy the christmas decorations and whatnot at there grandparents houses as we are there enough anyway so they wont miss out lol

[AshleighsMum]

does anyone have any tips on keeping our trees and presents safe from walking/distructive children. I can just see it now that elise will pull off every decoration in her reach and then the tree will probably get pulled down onto herself in the process....scary stuff!!

I was actually going to ask this same question.....but maybe start a new thread? ---- does anyone have any suggestions?
My DD turned 13 months today.....she is very mobile & inquisitive, so I can see how a nice big shiny xmas tree will look to her - it will be pulled down and dragged all thruout the house in a second :devil6:

[my_lot]

[QUOTE][I was actually going to ask this same question.....but maybe start a new thread? ---- does anyone have any suggestions?
/QUOTE]

we gave up our kitchen table for 2-3 weeks when dd1 was 12 months and put it on there (took chairs to garage )

we have used a but found toddler could shake it enough for the decorations to shake.

i used a wooden play pen the last time i had a toddler around my tree. the kids can still reach into the playpen so i put the tree on a toy box to make it higher.

[pookiesossige]

There IS a thread about this, but we will also give up our dining room table for the tree and pin the chairs between the table and wall so they can't be used to climb up to it. I'm hoping that works...

Tree will go up Dec 1 and down some time the week after new years'.

Pest Control ppl are coming to do the house on thursday- I just know the box my tree is in contains 100's of red-backs- what do ya think my chances of getting them to unpack my tree for me is? If I smile sweetly?? :D

[NZMama]

Hmm leaving the tree till after DD's birthday isnt a option for us as she was born December 21st. But I will always make sure that she never feels like she is sharing her day, the tree wont matter.
We usually put it up 1st Dec but it dosnt come down till mid Jan. Next year it will be late Jan when we get back from our 6 week holiday in NZ...woohooo
The kids gifts are being left here to be opened when we return rather than taking to NZ and paying excess luggage on the way back.

[~EmsMum~]

usually around december the 1st
(http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=771861)

[mumtofour]

The 25th of November I don't get sick of it ,
I love it.:yelclap:


Same Here :yes: ... Or the weekend closest to the 25th...As well as all the outside light and decorations...We take it down the 1st week of January...Mite be a bit later this year with being 8 months pregnant...I can just see myself up on a ladder taking down the decs on the house:laughing:...Have to wait for DP to do it!!

[dannii]

we put ours up on 1st dec as well, although get abit slack and have been known to still have my tree up in feb on one year lol
i had lots of comments by visitors and i just said i was keeping it up for next christmas :D

[AshleighsMum]

I left taking my tree down until nearly the end of Feb one year........It was the first year I got my beautiful big tree and I just couldnt bring myself to take it down - silly I know -- but I was only 20 and very excited about it!

[Ruby Slippers]

Same Here :yes: ... Or the weekend closest to the 25th...As well as all the outside light and decorations...We take it down the 1st week of January...Mite be a bit later this year with being 8 months pregnant...I can just see myself up on a ladder taking down the decs on the house:laughing:...Have to wait for DP to do it!!

I know it's going to be soooooooo hard to do things this Christmas
My Dh is putting up the tree I won't be able to do that
but I can just sit back and rest and watch :p .

[Bubble*Crazy]

We always put our tree up on the first Sunday in December. Don't know why, but I'd say as mum also worked, it was the easiest day for her ;), and I usually take ours down 1st Jan, if not sooner :o.

In regards to cost - I've probably spent $500 on our tree and dec's over the past 8 years - I never buy real expensive stuff, but I need a lot of stuff to cover it (the only downfall of the tree). It's 8 feet tall I think and I have 3 different styles of dec's that I rotate thru the years. I'm still tossing up which 'theme' to go with ... pink/purple; gold or silver.

I was also considering trying the blue shades meaning I'd have to buy another lot of stuff :D , but I'd have to do it without DP knowing and then say I've had the stuff for years :laughing:

Can't wait to start a thread on piccies of our trees .....

[defaipe]

we didnt even have a tree last year... oops. but we're buying one this year and will put it up early december i guess..
the guy across the road(pretty much opposite to our house) has already started on his decorations outside.. looks good though, dd#1 loves it. last year she'd be yelling the lights are on the lights are on! every flippin night!! not quite looking forward to that coz we'd be sitting on the front lawn for a half hour letting her look :laughing:

[AimeeB]

:wave: usually Dec 1st but the last couple of years,since Zane and Airlie have been that bit older I like to put it up a bit earlier! I looooove Chrissy!!Although this year Avalon is walking so it may go up later,to avoid the pulling over,ripping presents,pulling decos off etc:laughing:

[Bron]

Ours go up at Advent - four weeks before Christmas, so around 1 December. I never ever put them up before Advent, and I go crazy at the sight of Christmas decorations in town in October!!

Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, but October is far far too early.