Thanksgiving-Christmas Creep: Ok, so who has put up Christmas-type decorations prior to T'Giving?

[hlthe2b]

And, when I say Christmas-type, I include those who put up trees and lights for Solstice or other non-Christian/non-religious Holiday celebration...

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[el_bryanto]

1. I never really take mine down - but I don't have a lot anyway. nt

[ellie]

2. We put up our tree on Sunday.

Hey! I am in Colorado too! I love it here!

[hlthe2b]

3. Nothing better than the Holidays in the Rockies!

No matter how bad things may get in general, I am eternally grateful to live in CO!

Oh, and I relented since my neighbor put up theirs several days ago... Plus, it is good to pick a "warmish" day to put up anything involving lights..

My inside tree, however, won't go up (or at least won't get decorated) until Thanksgiving night.

[Coyotl]

4. Christmas trees are showing up on the Facebook feed already.

Gov. Kitzhaber posted a photo of the giant tree erected in the Oregon capital yesterday. Seems like it will dry out too soon.

[HappyMe]

5. I don't put mine up until

about the middle of December or so.

The people across the street put their Christmas decorations up Thanksgiving weekend. They have out of town family come in for Thanksgiving every year, and celebrate Christmas too. The woman said that the logistics of dealing with where people go for Christmas made this an easy answer.

[frazzled]

6. Oh, don't complain

Try having Hanukkah start the night before Thanksgiving. It's the first time it's happened in 100 years or so, and it won't happen again for 70,000 years (!).

We already had to buy presents for the little kids and wrap and ship them off. Thank goodness, Hanukkah doesn't involve much more than lighting candles and making some potato latkes in our post-children household.

[hlthe2b]

7. Heavens.... that would kill this procrastinator...

[Richardo]

8. I saw them before HALLOWEEN

[liberal_at_heart]

9. Two weeks of Christmas is enough for me. That is when we usually put our tree up.

[MissMillie]

12. I'm with you on this

and not just decorations--Christmas carols too. Two weeks is plenty. Don't need Christmas burn-out on December 16th.

[B Calm]

10. We set out our little ceramic tree about a week

before Christmas. Just my wife and I live here and we go to our son's house and celebrate Christmas with our granddaughters.

[sharp_stick]

11. We don't do outdoor lights

mainly because I find them to be more trouble than they're worth but the tree must go up on Thanksgiving day or the kids will rebel.

We bought the tree yesterday and it's ready to go.

[Johonny]

13. I already hid the Easter Eggs...

[hlthe2b]

14. I find them going through multiple freeze/thaw cycles followed by intense heat

makes for a "hardier" egg....(and kid who dares to eat them).....LOL

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. The family tradition has been to put the stuff up on Christmas Eve.

I think this year we will be on the road for the holidays, though.

[BainsBane]

20. That was the tradition before commercialization

Christmas was celebrated from Dec. 24-Jan. 6.

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. We apparently celebrated(?) Boxing Day until sometime in the '60s. I really miss

the holidays being about the holidays.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I haven't put up any Christmas decorations since my kids grew up and left home.

Even when they were still at home, I didn't put up a tree until a couple of weeks before Christmas. I didn't put up any other Christmas-type decorations.

[LisaLynne]

19. I haven't had a tree since the great

Cat-Dog Coalition of 1999 nearly knocked the thing through my living room window. :/

[Arkansas Granny]

23. I always put my Christmas tree in a corner and then wrapped wire around the trunk

and anchored it to both walls. It was a given that the cat would climb to the very tip-top of the tree at least once, and usually numerous times, before it was taken down.

[KatyMan]

17. other...

Being atheists who love Christmas anyway, we put up our decorations the weekend before Thanksgiving if we're having T/giving at our house (as this year). If not, we put them up the weekend after T/giving.
Ours is not quite traditional, we have a white tree with blue and white balls on it, and white lights, with lots of silver and white other things around the house (a white and silver Santa, some nutcrackers, etc), so our house looks more like it's set up for a winter celebration rather than just Christmas. It looks very cool, we love it and every year can't wait to put everything out!

[BainsBane]

18. I don't put them up until well into December

If I have a tree I will not take it down until after Jan. 6.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. They're showing Rudolph in Chicago TONIGHT

What in holy hecks? It's before T-Giving!

[hedgehog]

22. We've been known to add the final touches to the tree

after Midnight Mass!

I'm hoping to stage the Christmas clean-up/decorating process starting after Thanksgiving this year.

[nilesobek]

24. I've canceled Thanksgiving and Christmas due to poverty.

My oven, furnace and car are broke. No amount of eggnog, whiskey, decorations or turkey carcasses will make it any better. I turned down a food box because I can't cook anything. Besides, I don't need turkey and cranberries while shivering in front of a space heater to thank God, our imaginary little friend.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Outside lights will go up next Monday or Tuesday

Indoor tree not usually until mid December.

[liberal N proud]

27. I usually hang the lights outside in late October or early November when it is a little warmer

This year, I procrastinated and the weather was shitty and I put a few up last Sunday. My wife is onto me to get up on the roof and do the others. I hate going up on the roof.

I hate it!#(#*&

Edit, I never turn lights on until after Thanksgiving, the trees go up the day after. That is what Black Friday is really about.

[zipplewrath]

28. Thanksgiving is very late this year

I'm giving folks a pass this year, at least as far as this past weekend goes. Christmas is on a Wednesday, and that really leaves only 4 weekends before Christmas. They can be pretty busy weekends too. We're still purists and won't be putting things up until next week, but busy parents can be forgiven for trying to get some things done ahead of time.

[hlthe2b]

29. Yeah, that's sort of how I feel... But in a nod to Thnksgiving I have a very fall like plant display

with rich hues of gold, burnished orange and red--just before the door and haven't turned lights on yet.

[Trailrider1951]

30. My outside lights always go up the weekend after Thanksgiving

I just love all the beautiful light displays, when the days are so short and the dark is so long! The lights will stay up until the first weekend after January 1. I don't do trees or inside decorations; I have 3 cats = disaster!

[William769]

31. I use to always put up our decorations the day before Thanksgiving.

Reason being all the cooking I do on Thanksgiving I don't have time to deal with the decorations.

With that said, since losing the love of my life the holidays just are not the same for me anymore and I do not decorate. I just light a candle in his memory & try to make it to the new year without losing it.

[hlthe2b]

32. I'm sorry William.... and to all who are grieving over the Holiday Season, may you find peace

in memories of happier times....

Afraid this includes me as well....

[William769]

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[JI7]

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[JI7]

35. i have at work because right now is usually not too busy

and i want to relax more around thanksgiving weekend.

i have a problem with the christmas lights though. why is it that all of them are working when you take them down but when you put the lights back up there are some that don't work anymore or it doesn't work at all ? maybe they get damaged from being moved around.

[Drahthaardogs]

36. Since Thanksgiving is late this year, I went one weekend early.

Plus my heart is still in Alaska and old habits die hard. The lights go up early up north. They must be white though. It helps with the darkness.