Have you put up your tree and decorations--inside or outside? It is very cold around here but I have seen trees in

[debm55]

front windows of homes. Thank you.

[underpants]

1. Tree is up. 3rd tree I put up this year

One at work and at my Mom’s house Friday.

We put the tree up here yesterday. We have two ornaments on it - cardinals.

As I tell my wife, anything you put up has to be put back away.

[debm55]

3. Thank you underpandts. Are you putting more on the tree? I like the idea of two cardinals.

[underpants]

5. Oh yes we will

My daughter has over 100 nutcrackers (nothing expensive) so I think she should put up the ones she wants. We had a brutal November and I’m trying to get my wife to relax and do as little as possible.

[Ocelot II]

2. No tree, not enough room for one,

and I don't care enough to bother anyhow. There's a string of lights outside along my porch eaves and that's it.

[Phoenix61]

4. My yard was finished a couple of days before Thanksgiving.

It would have been done sooner but I had to restring an 8ft snowman and his little buddy. The house was finished yesterday. I have a little white Christmas tree in the front living room and a nice big real one in the back living room. There are 18 fruitcakes wrapped in Capt Morgan’s and homemade gingerbread cookie dough in the freezer. I’ve got peppermint pinwheel dough in the fridge firming up so I can roll it out to make the pinwheels. That will get stashed in the freezer too. When it’s time to bake them there will be very little clean up.
I LOVE Christmas!!!

[debm55]

6. Thank you very much Phoenix61. You really do sound like you love Christmas.

[Historic NY]

7. I'm think about moving mine to that spot

I dug it out the last warm day and spent the last two-days primping the branches. I bought one of those bags vs the torn box. Dug out all the ornaments, it amazing how many real old and new ones I have.

I haven't thought about outside lights, yet

[debm55]

8. Thank you Historic NY. I am sure it will look beautiful.

[debm55]

9. double post

[Americanme]

10. Yes

My wife has put up a tree in our living room, another tree in our computer room, another in the upstairs hallway. Electric candles in all the windows, garland everywhere. Outside, a nativity scene, a santa claus, and much more to come, she is just getting started.

[debm55]

11. Thank you Americanme. Your wife is very much in the holiday spirit.

[Niagara]

12. I have not decorated inside or outside yet

I have an extra piece of furniture in my living room that I didn't have last year at this time. Since I have this extra piece of furniture, I need to either move it to another room or figure out another furniture arrangement. So far my furniture rearranging hasn't been practical.


I've been measuring, moving stuff around, and breaking out the vacuum sweeper and I haven't came up with a solution yet.


It's only December 1st, I'm not giving up.

[debm55]

13. Thank you Niagara

[Kali]

14. no

Dec 10 is the earliest I will even think about it, often it goes up xmas eve.

[debm55]

16. Thank you Kali. I always put my up mid December. Live in an 8 room house , had a different themed tree in each one. PS I

was much younger .

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Lights Outside, Yes

8 to 10 days now.
No tree this year because the kittens are still, well, kittens.
My wife decided to live without a tree until they mature more. (They're so docile, it might have been ok but we'll live without for a year.)

[debm55]

17. That's a very good idea.Thank you ProfessorGAC.

[Niagara]

18. We had a feline companion that had to chew on artificial Christmas trees

We still have it, but we purchased a 3 foot half wall Christmas tree due to our "chewer".


There wasn't an abundance of ornaments on it but at least we had a tree.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. We Have A Mini In The Bedrrom

An even littler one in the rec room. (16-18"?)
These are too small for climbing & there are no ornaments at all on the tiny one.
So, we had ideas similar to what you're doing.

[Niagara]

20. Oh good, you at least have a tree!

She's decease now but that was the first time that I had a cat that chewed on the needles of the artificial tree.

[Cairycat]

21. Today is the first Sunday of Advent

so properly the tree and decorations go up today. But yesterday was when I had the time, so put them up then.

It was warm(ish) last Sunday here, so lots of people put up their outside decorations then. Now it's cold and windy, so last week was the best choice.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Not yet. Probably in a couple of weeks, and it will be our smallest one,maybe with only lights

We are both feeling too old and tired to fool with the big one and the 10000 ornaments. Plus, the room the tree would normally go in does not have a place for the tree. We have never done much outside since our daughter moved away but if I bother we put out lots of red mini lights on the hedges. I have an amazing garland with white mini lights in mass quantities that fits over our front entry and it is easy to hang.

When I was growing up, we never put the tree up until we got to the point that it would only be up about a couple of weeks and it always came down on New Year's Day.

Our trees came from my uncle's farm and were scrub cedar, which shed all over the place. My mom hated the mess; also being fresh trees, they were a fire hazard. We always had fun going out with my dad to get the tree though.

When the aluminum trees first came out my mom was ecstatic!!! Then we discovered that the reason we were all sick during Christmas was allergies to the cedar tree!!! At some point, we graduated to a real artifical tree.