how early can/should you start decorating for Christmas?

[nageov3t]

the absolute earliest, imo, should be the weekend after Thanksgiving... eating turkey and watching the game while shuffling around the christmas tree is just wrong.

in an ideal world, I'd say the first full weekend in December is when it's actually appropriate and that all decorations should be down before or shortly after New Year's Eve.

 

[lxskllr]

1-2 weeks before Xmas, and decorations should be left up until mid January.

 

[IGBT]

I have people in my neighborhood that leave em up all year round.

 

[sdifox]

Lights are on already in my neighbourhood.

 

[BoomerD]

Hell, you can start decorating for X-mas in July if you want to...

Personally, NO EARLIER than Thanksgiving weekend, and IMO, everything should be down by New Year's Eve.

 

[zerocool84]

It SHOULD be after Thanksgiving but seeing as stores sell Xmas stuff at the same time as Halloween stuff, I've seen people up with them since mid October and cities around me already have their decorations up too.

 

[SunSamurai]

I have people in my neighborhood that leave em up all year round.

Those are called crack houses.

 

[zerocool84]

Those are called crack houses.

No, crack houses wouldn't even have them up in the first place. Mexicans are the ones who leave them up year round.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I saw some people put them on in july. No joke! This house had them on for a bout a week in July. Think they did it as a joke because it was so cold that week and we even got snow.

Normally mid November / start of December. I put my lights up in October as it was nice out and started to put them on a few weeks ago. The rest of the neighborhood seems to have followed lol.

I actually saw a fully decorated and lit up Christmas tree in September once. I was walking home from school and saw it in a window and I had to look again to make sure it was really what I saw, and it was.

 

[FoBoT]

November 1st

 

[KeypoX]

I have people in my neighborhood that leave em up all year round.

Trailer park?

 

[moshquerade]

weekend after Thanksgiving is what i go by

 

[rockyct]

1-2 weeks before Xmas, and decorations should be left up until mid January.

Shift that schedule up 10 days. Having lights up anytime in December is acceptable and the lights should come down by the weekend after New Year's.

 

[IGBT]

94112

 

[IGBT]

trailer park?

94112

 

[IGBT]

some leave the halloween crap up as well. plastic pumpkins all over the place.

 

[Cheeseplug]

My grandma puts everything up the day after thanksgiving, except for her big wreath - that goes up November 1st. Personally?

Never. I am pretty much holiday neutral, halloween, christmas, fourth of july? Everything looks the same with me. My girlfriend hates it.

 

[GeekDrew]

Start decorating sometime around Nov 1 -- they need to be ready to be turned on by (Thanksgiving night, the night after Thanksgiving, or December 1). Shut'em back down sometime in early January. Take them down whenever the snow and ice permit.

 

[nageov3t]

Trailer park?

my first year living on my own (not counting the college dorms), my roommate and I went all out decorating our apartment... and then the decorations/christmas tree/lights ended staying up until like the summer because we were both so lazy.

that was the last time I decorated for x-mas.

it's just not worth it when you live alone and spend all of your holiday celebrations elsewhere.

if I move next year and get stuck being New Year's Eve bitch in my new apartment, though, I'd probably decorate.

 

[dawp]

December 24

I hate how some stores have christmas decorations out before halloween.

 

[Red Squirrel]

haha speaking of decorations I just found THIS from the office last year:



Yes, those are all coffee trays!

 

[IGBT]

haha speaking of decorations I just found THIS from the office last year:



Yes, those are all coffee trays!

haha i've seen those in the trailor park.

 

[Anubis]

any time after Turkey day is fine to start turning lights on and such, you can place them out sooner if you want to just get it done. Big ugly shit like santas and such should only come out after Tday. They should be taken down the week after new years

 

[DrPizza]

Depends on how traditional I want Christmas to be & how much spare time I have. Lots of spare time = tons of time outside with the ladder putting up lights, dozens of moving reindeer in the yard, etc.

Not much time = more traditional: hike through the woods in the snow, towing a sled. Find a decent Christmas tree. Cut down, drag home on the sled. Put up on the day before Christmas & decorate it Christmas eve. Take the tree down the day after Christmas & feed it to the goats.

I actually like the latter approach better. Seems to be much neater.

 

[Ausm]

I leave my up all year long makes the job of putting them up MUCH easier.