When do you start decorating for Christmas, if you celebrate it?

We don't start decorating till after Thanksgiving. We bought this house two years ago so we are still learning where we want to put stuff to decorate. We can't decorate with lights outside yet because there are no outlets outside and we can't afford to have any wired up yet. So we just decorate the inside.

I have the lights up on my house and garage outside already. A few other things inside the house as well already. This weekend I may add more decorations inside the house and outside possibly. Depends on funds as I am looking for new things to decorate with. I put up my outdoor lights in October usually to avoid the cold weather. Not fun fighting with frozen twisted electrical wiring in the cold. My lights usually don't get turned on till Turkey Day. Unless we get a nice pretty snowfall. Mine have been on twice so far already. Rain and warmn today so no lights tonight will be on. I would not leave them all year though. Takes me a couple hours just top put up the outdoor lights each year. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

We're planning to decorate our house this coming weekend, but I think we will start to decorate the inside first, since it's more easier to decorate it. If our plan didn't change and able to decorated our house for Christmas both inside and out by next week, we will be able to start to turn on the Christmas light for about two hours every night and the whole night in Christmas and New Year.

I don't start until after Thanksgiving. And then I don't do to much decorating. I turn my lights on when I finish the decorating I always take them down the day after Christmas because in the past I would have to go back to work 2 days after Christmas is over so I would try to get the job done before then.

we usually put the decors and Christmas tree up before the month of November ends.. i bought new decors for my parents house and i am pretty excited to help my mom out..

I celebrate christmas but i dont go insane with decorations lol. i have roof lights 2 giant candels and a happy holidays thing on my door. I did it last week. Some might think its too early in november. But the sooner i put them up the less i have to worry about doing it lol. But there are some people on my street that have some hardcore decorations. like lights on the grass, fake snow, lights on the windows doors roof attic window driveway, everything. too much lol. but a nice sight to look at.

We will probably decorate the house after Thanksgiving. We wont' do the outside, just the inside. We still have to get a Christmas tree. Nothing huge cause we always go to my grams for Christmas but we have a two year old so I'm sure she would like at least a little tree that she could decorate. We are doing our Christmas shopping on Black Friday so I can start to get a few decorations and maybe some lights.

We have started decorating for Christmas during the last month of November. Our son has been nagging us to decorate for Christmas a lot of weeks ago. At his school they start decorating from mid November since they break up early for christmas. So he pretends that we start decorating early too. © ronaldinu 2008

I start decorating the day after Thanksgiving and thats when the lights go on. I have to move things arround this year because theres more in the living room and have to find the right place for this tree. It will be an interesting time because there is so much more in the living room now then what there used to be.I wouldnt leave them up all year but then I reuse my lights and I always bring them in and put them up in the closet. I pull them out every year and check them. I have a huge amount of lights because I bought so much last year. I am glad that I wont need to buy more this year.

Sounds like you stay busy for the holidays, it is a good idea to get an early start. That is nice of you to decorate your pavilion for the community to enjoy. I usually start decorating the weekend before Thanksgiving. We always go out of town for Thanksgiving and I like to come home to the feeling of holidays in the air. This year I may not do very much deorating because we will leave on the 15th of Dec. for a holiday trip and not return until after the first of the year. It will be odd to not do all that I am used to doing around the holidays. John Grisham wrote a book called Skipping Christmas and my husband and I have already mentioned several times that it feels like we are living that book this year. The main thing I am focussing on is the charity things I always do at the holidays. I love all that we are involved in and will miss it this year, but we have had fun as a family finding ways to get involved early and teach my son about giving. I like tastefully minimal lights on the outside of my house. There is a fine line between just sticking something out to look like you participated and tastefully just enough. We may go ahead and put those out and just set up a timer while we are gone. I'm leaving that up to my husband to decide.

my family usually starts putting up christmas decoration right after thanksgiving. The weather isn't so harsh around that time and more people are at home to help out.

My mother made it a tradition on thanksgiving night to put up the tree. She still does that. And she bakes her homemade fudge. It's great! For the last couple of years she has put lights on her house but she waits until the first weekend in December for that.

My DH and I will probably drag out the tree Thanksgiving night. This will be our 5 month old's first Christmas and even though she's too young to remember it, it'll be exciting for us. We have a balcony on our towhome, so we'll put up the lights outside again and decorate the few bushes in our "yard" with lights also to make it festive. The complex last year had a decorating contest where the winner got $150 off their rent for 1st place, $100 for 2nd place and $75 for third place. We came in 2nd place with our decorations. I was pregnant at the time last year and made a wonderful Virgin Mary for our Nativity play at church.

I start decorating around December 20th. I have a two year old who loves to pull off the ornaments and he gets into everything. I love Christmas, it is my favorite holiday.

That sounds like a good idea to have the lights out of the .I usually don't decorate till after Thanksgiving and inside I already have a few fall or Thanks. decorations,and I always take my tree down Xmas night or the next morning.I hate when people leave the holiday stuff out too long after it's over.Good luck with getting all your lights up!

I start decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. The decorations are up for a little over a month, till after New Years and the manger scene stays up till after the 6th of January because that's when the three wise men made it to Jesus after he was born. I've got a joke to tell ya, when my cousins were little, they'd help their mom decorate the yard with a manger scene and when it came time to get the three wise men, my cousin told his mom "Here's the three wise guys." lol Not knowing that is not the way to say it but she had a good hearty laugh!! I would've too if I had been there. lol

I do not decorate outside the house although I have this beautiful tree in the garden that is very much like a christmas tree and I keep wondering whether to put some lights on it or something nice. I only decorate one room in the house over christmas and that is the room that we use all the time, I have a load of decorations in a cupboard upstairs but I have had them for years and they are becoming a bit outdated. So yesterday I went on a shopping spree and bought some newer modern ones I have gone for a black tree and rattan theme so I am looking forward to seeing them all up. I will probably put them up around the middle of December though as I do not like to have them up too early.

That is really cool that you have already started decorating for Christmas but only little things like putting electric candles in the windows,and I can understand that you do not want to turn them on yet,because it is kind of early,and I definitely understand that you want to get a head start on decorating,and that is awesome that you want to decorate the pavilion beside your lake since everyone drives by your house to see the pavilion and I think it would definitely be a friendly gesture and I am sure people would love it,and I can understand that you have a lot of baking to do for Christmas get togethers with family,and that you want to get the outside Christmas lights out of the way,and I can definitely understand not turning them on until after Thanksgiving,my parents always put out decorations every year which includes a Christmas tree that we put near the front door,and all kinds of different things that we get out each year,and outside Christmas trees with white lights on them,and lights that we put around the front of the house,and little lights that we put next to the front porch,and we usually start getting our Christmas stuff out and start putting it up the weekend after Thanksgiving because my mother thinks that is the best time to put the Christmas stuff out,and I agree it is a lot of hardwork to put it out each and every Christmas,and we always take it down after the first of the year and I have seen people who keep their lights up everyday of the year which seems like a lot easier,but I do not think my mother would ever do that,because part of the fun of Christmas is putting out the decorations,including the Christmas tree which my favorite part is always decorating the Christmas tree,because me and my parents always did it together.

It is hard work......... We do our decorations in the first week of December. Christmas lights, decors and of course, the all time Christmas tree. It doesn't snow in the Philippines so it's in our favor coz we won't be cleaning the driveway of snow. Christmas is near!!!

Well I am a single guy so I don't decorate at all. I go home for Christmas so there is no need for a Christmas tree or any of that stuff. I wrap up the presents, puttem in the trunk and head off to the parents house to celebrate.