When do you put it up?

I haven't put up a tree for several years due to illness and lack of interest. Oh, and the financial end of it also. I usually put ours up as soon after Thanksgiving as possible. It is more a matter of when we can afford it and how we can get it home. It all worked out in the end. We might even put one up next year!

It just varies. This year it went up last Saturday. Usually it's a week to two weeks before Christmas. PS are you on Yuwie? I saw a layout by camomom over there....

I actually got a tree at walmart this year - its black with red lights Thinking I might just change out colors of jewelry I have hanging on it during the year and leave it up!

Like you, we usually put ours up on black friday or soon after but this year, it was about a week or so after that we put it up. I won't put it up before Thanksgiving because it's like shoving Christmas before Thanksgiving and I don't want to do that. Besides, we get tired of seeing it after a while and this way, we get to enjoy it for the time being.

My decorations normally get put up late November early December but this year for some unknown reason neither my son or I have been in the Christmassy spirit so we haven't got our tree up let alone any decorations..guess in a sense as am on my own it will seem like another day and as no-one will be here to enjoy them either the spirit of having them up isn't there maybe next year...LoLo

I usually put mine up Thanksgiving week sometime I leave it up for one month and it comes down on Boxing day I have never started the new year with the tree up

I haven't put up a tree in over 20 years. I don't even have one. I couldn't afford one now anyhow. Since we had cats the were always knocking the tree down so my son had to make a choice, tree or cats, of course he chose his cats.

It's really hard for someone to call my tree a Christmas tree with a straight face, but I put up my Christmas tree a day or so after Thanksgiving. I wish I could get a picture of it and post it online. I'd probably win a contest along the lines of scariest Christmas tree ever.

Usually we put it up the weekend after thanksgiving. But this year we just weren't motivated to do it. I think it was the weekend after that we got the tree up and then it took us another week to decorate it. It was hard to find time to get it done. Our weekends were busy and till the kids got home from school and got supper and homework and bathed, there wasn't time to decorate the tree before bed.

This year our tree went up about a week before Thanksgiving. Normally I do not put a tree up that soon, but my kids were bugging me about it and I caved. Normally it does not go up until the beginning of December.

Most years i put my christmas tree up in the week following thanksgiving..and then it stay up until the day after new years.. Most years but this year. I dunno what my problem is/was, but i just coudln't get the gumption up to dig out the tree, and the decorations....and re-arrange furniture to have a place to set it up...and all the work involved *sigh*...i am actually kinda sad about it now....but it is only a couple days til christmas, and i am not even going to be here for the holiday, i am going to my boy friends out of state so it would be worthless now, not to mention i don't have the time. this year, i jut haven't felt the christmas bug. I know times are tough all around for everyone, but i guess i just kind of felt that putting up all the docorations and stuff would really just remind me that i wasn't really gonna have much of a christmas this year. I still haven't even wrapped the few presents i got for my boyfriends daughter and his family gift exchange yet. i have GOT to get on that tomorrow (along with packing for the long weekend), and christmas eve will be all traveling, so i won't have time then..

I normally don't bother because we live in an apartment and are cramped as it is will all the kids' stuff, but my father-in-law bought a new artificial tree so he gave us his old one. It sat in the car for about a week, then on Dec 20 I put it up but couldn't get the lights to work! So then I asked my grandpa to come over and fix the lights for me. There are no presents under it (we are really impatient in my family and opened them already!). Our 5 month old likes to look at the lights, but thats about it. I decorated it over a period of 5 days. I guess I wasn't in the mood either. Bah Humbug!