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G.J.

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I know that according to the tradition Christmas trees should be put up at the beginning of the Advent, what it means on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, but I couldn't wait until November 27, so my trees are up. When decorating my tree, I like to think that my tree is my canvas, usually I pick a color palette and I tried to get the ornaments that I need from my stash, or if I needed I buy new ones, especially when I am trying to follow a theme. I like to use fake trees, and actually once I keep it up throughout the year, I just changed the ornaments, so during Easter I put some stuffed bunnies at the ground, and some carrots and flowers on the tree, it was fun, but required a lot of effort to get different kind of ornaments, but it was worthy.
Do you put up a Christmas tree?
How you decorate your Christmas tree? do you follow a theme?
Have you thought to keep your Christmas tree up throughout the year?
 
Do you put up a Christmas tree?
Yes we put up our Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving night. I would put it up after Halloween but my family members make me wait.

How you decorate your Christmas tree? Do you follow a theme?
I grew up decorating with random ornaments so that’s what I still do. Sometimes I decorate with streamers and balloons on the day we have a December birthday.

Have you thought to keep your Christmas tree up throughout the year?
No; I like to take it down the day after Christmas.
 
We do put up a tree. Several years ago, we started getting a real tree. My favorite is a Douglas Fir. It's soft enough that it doesn't completely destroy your hands while putting up lights and ornaments.
We don't do a theme, but I have started being more selective about which ornaments actually make it onto the tree. It used to be a free-for-all of every ornament the kids liked. Now I TRY to keep it a little classier. My favorite are bird ornaments, especially owls for some reason. I also have a selection of ornaments that hold sentimental value and are on the tree for that reason alone, if for no other. My favorite is a little mouse sleeping in a matchbox that my grandfather gave to me off of his own tree when I was 3 years old.
We do NOT keep it up all year. I would get tired of it after a time. I like the reset and the fresh start that comes with clearing out the living room and refreshing the simplicity to start the new year.
 
umyesh said:
I grew up decorating with random ornaments so that’s what I still do. Sometimes I decorate with streamers and balloons on the day we have a December birthday.
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This is a fun idea! I never thought to do this, but my son's birthday is one week before Christmas. Could be something fun!!
 
I haven't put up a large tree for 10 years. Even before that it was hit or miss. I have no presents to put under a tree so the effort to do it by myself isn't worth it. However, I have 3 small table top trees that I can put out. One goes in my office and another one gets put somewhere else, varies by the year where and which one I use. These trees are always decorated and just covered with a plastic bag for storage in the bottom of a closet. For many years, one was put on the dining room table which had no outlet near it so lights weren't an option. Even now, where I put it has no outlet nearby so no need for lights.

I do have a lighted ceramic tree that I put in the kitchen so there is at least one tree with lights ;) I do minimal decorating because it is not really a happy season for me. So I tend to wait to put stuff out and take it down quickly. I've decided to wait until next Tuesday at the earliest... that way my cleaning lady doesn't have to deal with it. She comes on Monday.
 
umyesh said:
(...) Sometimes I decorate with streamers and balloons on the day we have a December birthday.
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We have a December birthday too, and this sounds a fun idea to celebrate both, Christmas and a birthday. Thank you so much for the tip, I never thought before about it.
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RebeccaH said:
We do put up a tree. Several years ago, we started getting a real tree. My favorite is a Douglas Fir. It's soft enough that it doesn't completely destroy your hands while putting up lights and ornaments.
We don't do a theme, but I have started being more selective about which ornaments actually make it onto the tree. It used to be a free-for-all of every ornament the kids liked. Now I TRY to keep it a little classier. My favorite are bird ornaments, especially owls for some reason. I also have a selection of ornaments that hold sentimental value and are on the tree for that reason alone, if for no other. My favorite is a little mouse sleeping in a matchbox that my grandfather gave to me off of his own tree when I was 3 years old.
We do NOT keep it up all year. I would get tired of it after a time. I like the reset and the fresh start that comes with clearing out the living room and refreshing the simplicity to start the new year.
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I too love birds, actually I tried to get them for my Easter tree, but it wasn't easy. You are so blessed having such kind of gift from your grandfather. My grandmom gave me a small plastic tree decorated, when I was 5 y.o., and it was with me, till I was adult, I believe that still must be in my mom house.
 
I put up my tree last Sunday. We do an artificial tree, I can't stand putting lights on trees! LOL. I do have a "theme", I use lots of red & white, but also have a mish-mosh of ornaments. Things kids have made, some from my childhood, new ones we've acquired over the years and lots and lots and LOTS of picks.
I actually just decorated an extra tree for my Mom, too. More elegant, lots of red and gold. It turned out gorgeous. One day I would love to have an extra tree in our bedroom. I'm hoping to catch the deals after Christmas this year and snag a tree for a good deal.
 
This is the first year we aren't putting up a tree. It's not because I'm a Scrooge, but because this year has been so difficult, we decided to just put out our decorations around the house and skip the tree. We donated our prelit artificial tree to our daughter, so it's still being used. :) My mom and sister and daughter came over on Sunday and we got all the decorations put out. Usually it takes me days on end to get everything done.
 
We put up a tree every year, usually a day or two after the Thanksgiving holiday. I like a colorful tree, so I bought a bunch of colorful vintage looking ornaments in red, green, aqua, pink, silver and gold, and ribbons in the same color and then I just add in all the random ornaments we have collected over the years as well. I love putting it all together! Last year, and this year (sadly), we are in a very small house while we wait for our main house to be renovated, so we decorate a very small pencil tree because it's all we have room for. By the time Christmas is over I'm ready for it to be put away! Last year I put everything away on Dec 26th.
 
We do put up a tree every year. So far since we've been married (20 years) we've gone to the tree farm and cut down a tree. We've always taken the kids too, this year we are basing the day to go get the tree on my oldest kiddo and when he'll be home from college. My hubby is already saying that he wants to switch to a fake tree once the kids are both out of the house.

We decorate with a random collection of ornaments. I love colored lights and there is definitely no theme. Lol. My MIL has purchased a Hallmark ornament for my hubby every year until maybe 10 years ago and then one for each of my kids for each year of their life too. We have a LOT of those, so I try to put those up first and then add some of my favorites in between. We never have a big enough tree to put up every single ornament that we have.
 
Do you put up a Christmas tree?
Yes, though it may go up the first week of December. For years, I wouldn't put it up until after December 7th, since that is my son's birthday. I really wanted definition between birthday and Christmas. Now, he's older, so it's not a big deal. My uncles birthday was Christmas. I always felt so bad for him, that I needed that line.

Oh, and we jut switched to a fake tree two years ago. When the kids were little, it was a whole thing. Now that we are all older, we skip that part... but get the tree out, hot chocolate, christmas movies, but just with a fake tree. :)

How you decorate your Christmas tree? do you follow a theme?
Since I was younger, my mother has gotten me a lot of ornaments - maybe 1 or 2 a year. She would pick things I liked/animals (like penguins or snomen) and gifted them to me.... so as I got older, I had ornaments for a tree already. I use those, and then a lot of ones I have from kids, or I have from DH. It's a mish mosh, but I love it.

The only kind of theme is that it's a lot of red and white. lol!

Have you thought to keep your Christmas tree up throughout the year?
Nope. Not my thing.
 
My tree has been up for a couple of weeks, but not decorated yet...just the lights. It's just full of memories...ornaments I made as a child, ornaments my kids made, and my mom gives each one of us an ornament every year that signifies something about us for that year. Everything comes down the day after Christmas just because I like to have the last few days of my break without anything hanging over my head to do :)
 
I put up a tree most years (I did only do a tiny tabletop tree one year when my daughter wasn't going to make it home). I have a skinny 7ft pre-lit tree that I love the ease of. Unlike previous artificial trees, this one actually fits back into the box every year.

I don't do a theme. I use some favorite ornaments that have been in my family for a pretty long time -- a couple from my childhood, a couple of my Mom's favorites that she collected (she has been gone for many years now), and a few of my daughter's favorites from her childhood.

I'm not sure when I'll put it up this year because of keeping a 2-year old several days a week. Between him and the cats, I'll probably be busy keeping the tree safe.

A couple of years I kept the tree up until well into January but that was just being lazy and not wanting to tackle putting it away -- that would have been when I had a much larger, less manageable one to deal with. But likely it will come down right around New Year's.
 
Do you put up a Christmas tree?
Yes. I bought a pre-lit tree last year after Christmas ... hopefully all the pieces are in the box, LOL! If I remember correctly it is a "slim" tree, but I'm not sure.

How you decorate your Christmas tree? do you follow a theme?
My mom bought my kids a new ornament every year, and I've done the same with my GK. Since my GK were/are "live-ins" we decorate the tree with their ornaments, plus plastic icicles, candy canes, and some glass balls to reflect the lights. We use to put tinsel on the tree but haven't seen we got a pup in 2010 ... I'm afraid she'll eat it.

Have you thought to keep your Christmas tree up throughout the year?
No, I really don't have the space to keep it up all year even if I wanted to. Tree normally goes up Thanksgiving weekend, and comes down the weekend after New Year's. My mom always took the tree down January 2nd when we went back to school. It was so sad coming home that afternoon and finding the house bare.
 
We usually put ours up the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving.

It's usually just a random mess of ornaments we've collected over the years. Lots of memories. One day I'll have a perfectly decorated tree...maybe. it's still beautiful in my eyes. My kids love it.

I usually take it down around New Year's.
 
We put up a tree (usually a Balsam fir) every year, in early to mid-December.

I used to have a theme, or at least a colour scheme: everything was red, white, or silver, and I had (and still have) a lot of stripey ornaments in red/white or red/silver (so I guess a bit of a candy cane theme! and I always hang candy canes on my tree...). But over the years, I've collected some beautiful/quirky ornaments in different colours, and I like to use those too. So my tree is predominantly red/white/silver, but with little pops of other colours.

I take it down in early January. Sometimes just after New Year's, but sometimes I follow my mother's custom and leave it up until just after January 6 (the 12th day of Christmas).
 
We put up a fake tree every year. I love that I can have a themed/designer style tree now that my children are all grown up. When they were small it was random and goodies they made. Now I choose a colour scheme and totally go with it. It's been pink with flamingos and white and gold with a snowy theme. I don't have boxes and boxes of themed ornaments, but I will sneak in a few ornaments when we travel to different places. that way the tree becomes a memory keeping thing for us all too.
 
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