Question of the day November 27th! Black Friday

[kokopup]

Black Friday has been the traditional start of the Christmas season. Do you decorate for Christmas, if so when do you start your decorating and how much do you get into it?

My wife sort of morphs Halloween into fall decor into Thanksgiving. These are constantly changing since she has MANY closets full of decorations. TODAY the Christmas tree went up but she will wait until tomorrow to take down Thanksgiving. We will probably end up with 3 Christmas trees and decorations everywhere, Including the LED Bicycling Santa in the front yard. She has so many Christmas decorations it takes several years to rotate through all the stuff she has stashed in closets. When decoration go on sale after Christmas she will go buy more.

[chocolatepuppy]

I too am quilty of morphing from one season to the next. I started on Thanksgiving, my outside decorations, it's a tradition. I really go all out for Christmas but unlike your wife, am trying to quit buying!

[pomtzu]

The tree doesn't go up until 2 weeks before Christmas, so I guess it will be the weekend of the 12th this year. However, I will start putting out other decorations thruout the house, a little at a time, probably next week.

I just can't go with putting the tree up in Nov - that's too early IMO, and if I did that - I'd probably be sick of it by the time Christmas got here. When I was growing up, my father would never put a tree up until a week before Christmas. But way back then, you never saw anything related to Christmas in the stores until after Thanksgiving either.

[Queen of Poop]

If it were a normal year for me I'd be decorating for Christmas on December 1, leaving everything up until January 1.

[Catherinedana]

We don't have much room for a tree at the moment. We think that perhaps when we finally have the house set up the way we want by next christmas, we will get a small tree. No biggie for me, especially since we will have to find a place to put it where either (a) the flighted birds to not land in it and (b) the Sennies and Quakers do not have a heart attack when they see it [scardy birds, every one of them] which will mean the front room [currently not accessible ]

We put lights on the outside of the house and have one of those light up spiral trees but I will NOT decorate until about 2 weeks before Christmas. I like the anticipation. . . We use big colored bulbs around the eaves of the house and it makes it look like a little gingerbread house.

[IRescue452]

I go from one season to the next; October pumpkins and leaves and gourds stick around to see the turkeys and deer decor for November and the deer stick around for December with some fake snow surrounding them instead of the leaves. I haven't gotten out the yule decor yet but I've put a few pretty round ball ornaments in champagne glasses on the breakfast bar. Its a work in progress starting the day after thanksgiving.

[Karen]

I don't get a tree until much closer to Christmas, as I insist on a real live tree, and they do shed needles after a certain time.

Over the weeks between Sunday (Advent begins) and Christmas, decorations will be out, and flag Santa will be put on the porch, and the Let It Snowman hung on the door ... it happens bit by bit!