When do you start decorating for Christmas?

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Do you all sing the O antiphons when you light your advent candles? Are they sung to a particular melody or are they chanted or are they just read?
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Think of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. The verses are the O antiphons.
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So would a different one (verse) be sung on each night starting on the 17th?
 
To a diy UK person decorating for Christmas may involve redecorating, simply called “oh what? I have to decorate the front room because Aunty FooFoo is visiting? Hurrumph.”

I have a piece of tinsel, but where to put it when I’m told to two weeks before Christmas? (Charitable answers only please.)

Emulsion is paint for a internal plastered wall or ceiling.
 
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We brought the boxes of decorations out today.
Along with the box of Christmas DVDs.

The decorations will go up tomorrow.

A few years back I tried to decorate closer to Christmas, but the way my family reacted, youda thunk I’d kicked a puppy.
And liked it.
 
Around the 15th of December. Not huge fan of the Christmas season for a variety of reasons but I go along with it because it makes my family so happy. I take them down on January 2nd. If I waited later in December to put them up it wouldn’t be worth the hassle to have them up only for a few days. I do enjoy the lights.
 
We put our tree up after Thanksgiving but our Advent wreath is front and center on the coffee table. We also have Advent candles in the window and light one each week. It can be seen from the street. We keep the tree and Nativity sets up until Epiphany. The baby Jesus does not go in the manger until it’s actually Christmas and the wise men travel from the East through the Christmas season to get to the manger :). Trees are not a specifically Catholic thing anyway. Advent is all about “Prepare the way of the Lord,” so I don’t see a problem with doing the tree early.
 
Whenever the kids pester us enough! 😛

Before we had kids, I wasn’t too worried about decorating for Christmas since there was no reason for all the effort just for our own enjoyment, and DH doesn’t really feel Christmas until sometime in mid-January, so I just let him pick when he felt like it. 🙂 We’d usually end up decorating sometime the week before Christmas and leave it up until the second or third week in January.

Now that we have kids, the tree goes up sometime after Thanksgiving and before the first Sunday of Advent. It still stays up until the second or third week in January.

My MIL is Methodist and lives close by. She and the kids start decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving, and she’s quick to put it all away the day after Christmas. I’ve teased her about her rush to put it all away so fast and get on to decorating for Valentine’s Day— just like the stores put all the Christmas candy and snack cakes on the shelves before Thanksgiving, but if you tried buying them the week before Christmas Eve, there’s nothing but Valentine’s Day candy and snack cakes on the shelves, because the Christmas stuff has already been rotated out, even before Christmas actually gets here… 🙂
 
I actually did the opposite. I used to stick Yuletide joy to anything and everything in the house, but now that I’ve got kids, I’ve toned it way down for safety reason and to keep stuff from getting broken.
 
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I’m putting a tiny Christmas Tree in the lunchroom at work 😊
 
My sis and I share a house. She’s on the Jewish side of the family, I’m on the Catholic side. We celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas. Decorations will go up somewhere between now and a couple weeks from now, and remain up until Jan 6. Jesus doesn’t appear in the Manger until Christmas eve.
 
In Aus we don’t have Thanksgiving.

Some people start at Advent, others who might not be Catholic, start of December until midway in December. There is a community competition for the best decorated houses externally, people have started their decorations for that now, and the councils have put up their Christmas decorations.

Personally living with working dogs myself and family don’t do inside decorations. Its too much of a challenge for them. The kids are doing external decorations though, on their house.
I might decorate a few gum trees out on the farm.

I have a goal to display a nativity scene . Our parish will put the Jesse tree up this coming week and each year there is a display of nativity scenes from around the world. Thats pretty awesome.

We have extra adoration during advent, run by one of the Priests, and the Cathedral organ gets a work out for all the groups who run carols.
 
We do it slowly throughout the season. Advent is a time of preparation for Christmas and bringing out the Christmas decorations little by little throughout the season seems like a good way to prepare. On Christmas Eve, we make the final preparations by finishing up the tree decorating.
 
When my son was little I did a good amount of decorating but now it seems too much trouble to put everything up only to take it down later. I try not to create extra work for myself and instead play Christmas music and enjoy other people’s Christmas lights. 🤣

I can never wait for Christmas to start on the Christmas music but I usually wait till mid Advent or so.

I might move to simple decorations that look festive but don’t require any setup - like a nativity set and an advent wreath, and other stuff you take out of the box and set down.
 
To me, the best bang out of your buck you can get is a lit garland. You can get lovely ones premade from Hobby Lobby, but they are expensive. Or you can buy the plain green garland, twinkle lights, and some sparkly stuff at the dollar store and do it relatively cheap. Once you get it together, you just plug it in and you can tie it to your bannister rail or just stuff it on the top of a bookshelf or over a window valance. Then at the end of the season, unplug it and stuff it in a plastic bag. We have on top of our china cabinet and one along the rail of our staircase and they make the room so pretty, even without anything else.
 
I used to decorate the house for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. We enjoyed traveling and collected an ornament from each trip. When we put up the tree we had many happy memories of time well spent. I haven’t decorated the house for Christmas in the last few years but the Advent wreath is on display.
 
My mom is getting older and she loves to decorate most of the house inside while dad does the outside. This takes longer every year, so they started decorating the week before Thanksgiving. Although when I start a family, we will wait until Advent begins.
 
I rent a bedroom at a friend’s house (he has 5 bedrooms total and rents all of them except his own). My only Christmas decoration is a nativity set, which I will put out after Mass on the 1st Sunday of Advent, sans the baby Jesus. My friend is considering buying a tree for the living room this year, but no definite plans yet.
 
Well, we have started to put things out bit by bit around here. So far nothing is lite, and we still don’t have a tree up, but it’s coming along. I’m going to be putting together my advent wreath this evening. I have a few DIY Christmas projects to finish too.
 
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