When do you start decorating for Christmas?

[alltherage]

I've always been a proponent of December 1st for pretty much starting everything, although this year I am late for a number of reasons... maybe partly because it didn't feel like winter until about 3 days ago.

When do you:

• Set up your outdoor lights, decorations, etc
• Christmas Tree (bonus question: real or fake?)
• Indoor Decorations
• Put gifts under the tree

Also, I will likely be going to get all this stuff this year, so any ideas as to where to get some great deal would be appreciated!

If you do not celebrate Christmas, perhaps you celebrate "holidays" or "hanukkah", in which case just translate the tradition, yo!

[4X4]

<-- Never

[alltherage]

Originally Posted by 4X4

<-- Never

Not a decorator? Or not a celebrator? Or both?

[4X4]

Originally Posted by alltherage

Not a decorator? Or not a celebrator? Or both?

Decorator. But I do admit that I like the outdoor lights that everyone puts up. Good job, y'all!

[Kybosh]

January 2nd.

[dre]

Originally Posted by alltherage

When do you:

• Set up your outdoor lights, decorations, etc
• Christmas Tree (bonus question: real or fake?)
• Indoor Decorations
• Put gifts under the tree

-Early November (Kids love it)
-Yesterday (real)
-Early November
-When the kids go to bed Xmas eve.

[malcolmk14]

I'm a single guy so I don't really do any decorating. I think if I did, it would just end up staying up all year.

My mom's not a big decorator, she just gets a small tree and cooks a lot of good food.

My dad's wife forces him to decorate, and they've got younger kids so I guess it's kind of fun for them.

[TimSJ]

-Last Weekend
- 2 weeks before so next weekend likely (Real)
- wife and kids decorated inside the house this week
- a few days before Christmas we put a few things under to fill up the space, everything else Xmas eve after the kids go to be

[moncton golden flames]

my girlfirend loves xmas, so we have to compromise. she wanted to put the tree up 3 weeks ago, i wanted mid december, so we settled on december 1st and has to come down by new years. no exterior stuff, just a tree inside.

[Dion]

Got lights up on the back deck but that's about it for now.

[alltherage]

I don't know, something about getting all decorated up really puts me in the Spirit. Christmas in 08 and 07 never really got me in the Spirit at all for some reason, but this year feels different. Probably because I'm not living alone in a tiny basement suite anymore hahaha.

I'm going to go nuts this year. Tree, Outdoor Lights, Wreaths, Banners, Bows, etc etc... I'm pumped!!

[GrrlGoalie33]

When do you:

• Set up your outdoor lights, decorations, etc - Lights stay up all year...they are blue so it's not as bad.
• Christmas Tree (bonus question: real or fake?) This year it was Dec 2. Never before Dec 1 though.
• Indoor Decorations - Same as the tree
• Put gifts under the tree - Whenever they are purchased and wrapped. I'll probably have wrapped gifts under there this weekend. I plan on finishing my Christmas shopping this weekend.

[alltherage]

Originally Posted by Frankster

When do you:

• Set up your outdoor lights, decorations, etc - Lights stay up all year...they are blue so it's not as bad.
• Christmas Tree (bonus question: real or fake?) This year it was Dec 2. Never before Dec 1 though.
• Indoor Decorations - Same as the tree
• Put gifts under the tree - Whenever they are purchased and wrapped. I'll probably have wrapped gifts under there this weekend. I plan on finishing my Christmas shopping this weekend.

Thats a good call.

[Kipper is King]

This weekend, because December 5th is my parent's anniversary- it's their tradition. We have a nice Christmas tree, LED lights outside, a wreath over the front door, and we usually put some spruce boughs above our garage for a festive look.

[bootlegsaint]

After Halloween. Which seems early but I love Christmas. I usually just put up lights and little decorative things around the house, and the Christmas Tree goes up at the end of November.

[Ashartus]

Outoor lights: Grey Cup weekend (after that weekends tend to get a bit cold for putting up the lights)

Christmas tree: probably this weekend (my wife wanted it up last weekend but I was able to have it delayed). Fake tree these days.

Indoor decorations: also this weekend.

Gifts under tree: Christmas Eve after everyone else is in bed (to prevent attempts at guessing what the presents are).

[troutman]

Fire Log channel on Shaw is all I need.

[tete]

Set up your outdoor lights, decorations, etc
N/A - we're in a condo, and have never bothered to light up the balcony

Christmas Tree (bonus question: real or fake?)
Fake tree - goes up somewhere around Dec. 25th or 26th - stays up until Jan. 19th - we celebrate Ukrainian Christmas, not western Christmas

Indoor Decorations - all we do is put up the xmas cards we get in the mail - string them up by our windows

Put gifts under the tree - whenever we get them - it's just the two of us and so there's not much under the tree.

We buy 99% of our xmas tree decorations after Christmas when they go on sale for 50% off or so. Panache on 11th has some really neat decorations.

[worth]

I'll decorate when i've got kids of my own and a house. Until then, I won't decorate. Unless I have a big party or something.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

Outoor lights: Grey Cup weekend (after that weekends tend to get a bit cold for putting up the lights)

Christmas tree: probably this weekend (my wife wanted it up last weekend but I was able to have it delayed). Fake tree these days.

Indoor decorations: also this weekend.

Gifts under tree: Christmas Eve after everyone else is in bed (to prevent attempts at guessing what the presents are).

Come on... Give your kids more credit. Me and my sis used to open our presents verry carefully, play with them, and re wrap them. The key is to use a sharp knife and cut the tape. And to have a mother that doesn't get home from work until two hours after the kids get home from school.