I love Christmas. Love everything about it. But it would seem wrong to be celebrating Thanksgiving with the tree up. Thanksgiving to me should be a brisk fall day full of the color brown and orange. Brown turkey, stuffing, gravy. Orange pumpking pie, squash, etc. Brown decorations -- leaves, cornucopia, turkeys, etc. It would feel weird to see red and green and gold on that day.

But come the weekend after Thanksgiving, Christmas is on!

Anonymous wrote:We are pretty old fashioned. We put up the tree the weekend before Thanksgiving and take it down around Epiphany. We like to celebrate for the 12 days of Christmas. We leave our outside lights up till the Baptism of Jesus.

I come from a Waspy old New England family on 1 side and a Waspy Southern Episcopalian side on the other. I am not religious, but I feel like trees really should only be up for the 12 days of Christmas. This is what my parents did and do.

We put it up around the middle or beginning of December. Take it down after Epiphany (Catholic).

I put it up after DC's birthday in early Dec. I just like to have a bit of separation between the two.

Dec 15th or a weekend close to it. The tree is down usually before New Years.

I normally have a self-imposed "rule" that it goes up the Friday or weekend following Thanksgiving but we put it up early last year - and it felt great. Frankly, I don't care when people put their trees up. Do what makes you happy. I love when our house is decked out for the holidays and if I can have it up an extra week or two, I plan on it!

Sunday after thanksgiving - tradition.

Anonymous wrote:I put it up this past weekend. Fake tree. We get to enjoy the view of the beautiful tree for 2 whole months!

OP here: Wow! I'm not alone! great!

I purchased the most beautiful tree today and I couldn't help myself. I'm sitting here looking at it. I'm thrilled that I get to enjoy it for over a month.

Second or third week in December - it goes up.

We take it down after Epiphany.

Dec. 8

Put up first week of December, take down by Epiphany or anytime after January 1st. But that's only because I'm sad it's not Christmas anymore.

I put it up this past weekend. Fake tree. We get to enjoy the view of the beautiful tree for 2 whole months!

Anonymous wrote:For those who are putting up the tree in November, are you using a real or fake tree? I would be afraid that the pine leaves would fall by the end of Dec.

OP here: I always use a fake tree.

Anonymous wrote:We are pretty old fashioned. We put up the tree the weekend before Thanksgiving and take it down around Epiphany. We like to celebrate for the 12 days of Christmas. We leave our outside lights up till the Baptism of Jesus.

Meant to say, the weekend before Christmas. We have a real tree.

We are pretty old fashioned. We put up the tree the weekend before Thanksgiving and take it down around Epiphany. We like to celebrate for the 12 days of Christmas. We leave our outside lights up till the Baptism of Jesus.