When do you put up your Christmas Tree?

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Do you put up a tree? When do you? Real or artificial? Do you have cats??
 
Traditionally, up day after Thanksgiving, down Jan 6. (Although it’s not up yet - likely this weekend). No current cats. Have had them in the past.

Love the kitty in the tree.
 
Cut a real one ,battling flies and dust and heat
The night before Christmas usually
Have cats,but they are older gentlemen now…last year was a different story !
 
Our tree goes up first week in December and it will be a real one.

We have cats and they hide behind the tree, and knock off low ornaments. They never climbed into it. I bolt it to the wall, just in case, you never know…lol.
 
  1. Yes
  2. The weekend after the week after Thanksgiving (2nd week of advent typically, but first this year)
  3. Real—where I live in proximity to Canada trees are cheap—$20 for a 6’ Douglas Fir. An artificial tree that looks as good would cost $200.
  4. No cats but I do have children. And a really stupid dog. We anchor the tree to the wall.
 
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All decorations go up first week of Dec.I usually take everything down the weekend following anew Yeats Day,except for the nativity scene .
 
Generally put it up the first week of Advent, though we don’t tend to put the ornaments on right away. That usually happens closer to Christmas. In Advent, it tends to be out Jesse tree, rather than a Christmas tree. 😜 It comes down after the Baptism of the Lord, usually in mid January.

Ours is artificial and pre-lit. 🙂 No pets.
 
Anytime after Thanksgiving. Preferably by the first Sunday of Advent.

Ours is also an artificial, pre-lit tree.

We have a cat, who thankfully doesn’t try to climb the tree or chew the lights, but she does like to knock lower hanging ornaments off the tree, so we have to be careful about that.
 
Real tree up at first Sunday in Advent, down after the Baptism of The Lord. I have a cat & dog, neither one of them bother the tree.
 
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I don’t put a tree up since I’m just a single guy. Maybe that seems a silly excuse. I equate Christmas trees with families to some degree. It’s a bit like cooking for yourself. I could put a tree up but am less motivated to in my singleness. But I do love Christmas decoration.

My mom has ummm A LOT of cats. They generally don’t climb the tree, but they very much love to lie underneath it and swat ornaments in their free time.
 
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JamalChristophr said:
I don’t put a tree up since I’m just a single guy. Maybe that seems a silly excuse. I equate Christmas trees with families to some degree. It’s a bit like cooking for yourself. I could put a tree up but am less motivated to in my singleness. But I do love Christmas decoration.

My mom has ummm A LOT of cats. They generally don’t climb the tree, but they very much love to lie underneath it and swat ornaments in their free time.
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Aww, that’s kinda sad.

I put up a 1-foot mini tree even when I lived in a tiny dorm. Both my husband and I had real trees in the years before we met. For me, it was the smell and the lights and the everything.

Honestly, it wasn’t until after kids that I’ve been sorely tempted to not put up a tree.
 
If I had my way, the tree would go up Christmas Eve, but it will go up on 19 December when my old school friends come round for our pre-Christmas lunch. It is a small artificial tree covered in nativity decorations and a couple of painted crucifixes (I like to think about the birth, death and resurrection together). But pride of place is my window sill where I have a lit up nativity scene in the center.

I no longer have a cat, my one and only (Cedric) passed away a few years ago and no other cat could ever come close (he was a perfect cat for me - even though he had a reputation for committing crimes such as helping himself to any unguarded food).
 
I’m with you. I don’t have a lot of room, am single, and figure what’s the use - no one will see it anyway. Trees are for families. For a nice tree I visit my sister’s house - 25 miles away.

I love to cook but really don’t cook much for just myself, either.
 
I always found Christmas to be a wonderful, almost magical time of the year when I was a child, so even when I was single and living alone I had a huge artificial Christmas tree. I’m glad I have my husband to help me assemble it now, but even if I wasn’t married, I would still put it up as soon as I could, with all the trimmings.

I do get what you say about cooking though. Cooking for one is tough! I didn’t have a lot of motivation when I was cooking for myself.
 
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I always found Christmas to be a wonderful, almost magical time of the year when I was a child, so even when I was single and living alone I had a huge artificial Christmas tree. I’m glad I have my husband to help me assemble it now, but even if I wasn’t married, I would still put it up as soon as I could, with all the trimmings.

I do get what you say about cooking though. Cooking for one is tough! I didn’t have a lot of motivation when I was cooking for myself.
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HAHA!

I didn’t love cooking for myself at first.

Now?

As a Mom?

Cooking just for me?

YES PLEASE!!!

I can pick what meat I’d like to eat, all the spices I want and the veggies I like. I can cook it to my preference, cover it with whatever I’d like and then EAT THE WHOLE THING MYSELF.

I can dream, can’t I?

Without sharing it with any number of little gremlins who will refuse to touch the chicken on their plate because of the nearly-invisible speck of parsley that accidentally cross-contaminated their food is “too spicy” and it gasp may have touched a vegetable… but will lean over and happily gobble down my spicy red curry squash and other unspeakable veggies that have enough spice to blow their brains out.

#momproblems

Seriously though. I spent a good number of years as a single lamenting all the things I had to do alone. It was tough.

But now I’m NEVER alone.

Never.

Ever.

Alone.

.

.

.

Ever.
 
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starlady:
I always found Christmas to be a wonderful, almost magical time of the year when I was a child, so even when I was single and living alone I had a huge artificial Christmas tree. I’m glad I have my husband to help me assemble it now, but even if I wasn’t married, I would still put it up as soon as I could, with all the trimmings.

I do get what you say about cooking though. Cooking for one is tough! I didn’t have a lot of motivation when I was cooking for myself.
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HAHA!

I didn’t love cooking for myself at first.

Now?

As a Mom?

Cooking just for me?

YES PLEASE!!!

I can pick what meat I’d like to eat, all the spices I want and the veggies I like. I can cook it to my preference, cover it with whatever I’d like and then EAT THE WHOLE THING MYSELF.

I can dream, can’t I?

Without sharing it with any number of little gremlins who will refuse to touch the chicken on their plate because of the nearly-invisible speck of parsley that accidentally cross-contaminated their food is “too spicy” and it gasp may have touched a vegetable… but will lean over and happily gobble down my spicy red curry squash and other unspeakable veggies that have enough spice to blow their brains out.

#momproblems

Seriously though. I spent a good number of years as a single lamenting all the things I had to do alone. It was tough.

But now I’m NEVER alone.

Never.

Ever.

Alone.

.

.

.

Ever.
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LOL. I don’t mean to go off topic, but thanks for the post.

My husband and I are actually expecting our first child, due next summer. I’m sure that will be my life soon enough. 🙂
 
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LOL. I don’t mean to go off topic, but thanks for the post.

My husband and I are actually expecting our first child, due next summer. I’m sure that will be my life soon enough. 🙂
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You know? It is really a wonderful life. I love having a family.

I actually enjoy cooking for them tremendously. Still, cooking for a family is still cooking for a family. It was the same when I went over and helped my friend with her 5 little ones. Although she did help me to learn the “mommy’s plate” feeding technique. Which is, a food on a child’s plate has a directly inverse relationship with being enjoyed, whereas food on Mommy’s plate —no matter how perfectly identical–has an astronomically larger chance of actually being consumed. By toddler, not mom. Sorry.

But I really see now how much time I fretted away and didn’t appreciate some of the unique positives about single life.

I really hate to see when singles stop doing things because it’s “just for them”. I think one of the reasons that my husband and I have a very healthy marriage is because we didn’t wait to build many of our traditions for marriage. We still bought the chocolate coins for St. Nicholas Day. (though as the stories go, hubby’s never made it to St. Nicholas day in his single years). We put up trees. We got decorations. We knew we wanted to be married but we lived VERY fully.

It’s still a personal decision, but I want to encourage those who feel like traditions are “just for families” not to fall into that train of thought.

And totally back to being off topic…are you far enough along to feel movement yet? When it’s constant you will likely have a moment of “what have I gotten myself into—I’m never going to be alone again”.
 
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