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When do you take them down? Hhhhhmmmmm? When? Before Spring Break? After Easter? Father's Day?
The day before Thanksgiving I'll bet!
This is exactly what i was gonna post. growing up my folks always left them up till easter(keep in mind we grew up in the U.P., so there was still snow). i usually keep mine up til the weekend after the superbowl. mainly cause we have a superbowl party every year and it is a good way to help people find the house
My lights came out today. They are being untangled & tested. I don't care when he gets them hung, but I want to be able to turn them on the night after Thanksgiving. They come down Jan. 2.
Thanksgiving weekend all the decorations come up and we purchase our tree. By the following weekend everything is up and stays up until the middle of January.
If I'm gonna go to all that work, it goes up then so I can enjoy them...of course that's the only time I have to put them up. I don't turn them on until Dec 1st tho.
The tree goes up the 1st or 2nd weekend of Dec, depending what dates it falls on.
They will be taken down buy New Years with the exception of the bare naked tree. I heard it was bad luck to take it down before New Years Day. It never said it had to be decorated...
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I dont do outside lights cause my house is a huge big old 1850's brick and anything small would look stupid. I do garland and wreaths the front and back doors. This year Im gonna do some lighted flat half trees on either sde of the back door. I got some fake trees I trash picked.
No one comes to my house so its just for me. I usually start getting my stuff out and organizing it in the main hall the week of Thanksgiving. Im getting it down to a science. I have tons of Charlie Brown trees . The ones with the wood trunks. My goal is to get them all predecorated so I can just put them away as is. I even have a little tree in the kitchen with vintage cookie cutters. My project this year is to mount the big tree on a platform with wheels so I can wheel it away decorated and store it under the stairs.
I really love all the decorating but Im not as spry as I used to be and getting it all up and down in a month is too taxing. And I dont like putting stuff up early cause I really like my Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff.
I do not put up lights, I have two lit pieces of greenery I put on the front porch. Then I have a Christmas tree and decorate the living room and dining room. I will put my decorations up and tree up this week. Yup, you heard right.
It has become a tradition to have the tree up before my children's birthday. The oldest's birthday was in Dec so that was easy, then second and last one had a birthday on the 9th of Nov. So, my tree and decorations go up before his birthday. ;
I don't mind, I love to sit down late at night when everyone has gone to bed and let the glow of the Christmas tree soothe my stress away. I love Christmas holiday and it is just not Thanksgiving without our tree up!
Reopen the poll. I'd be the second choice (Halloween to Thanksgiving). I like to start decorating as early in November as possible.
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Thanksgiving weekend
