[graciegirl]

We will just before Thanksgiving because grandchildren are coming at Thanksgiving and we won't be together at Christmas. Ours reaches the ceiling and it gets harder to do the elves job every year.

[Bjeanj]

Our family won’t be able to come this year. However, we’ll put our tree up shortly after Thanksgiving. It’s avout 4 feet tall and sits ona table in the den in front of the window. It keeps my spirits up. :-)

[aninjamom]

When I was growing up, we put ours up on Christmas Eve. It was after I grew up that I realized that it was because that's when my dad could afford to get one after they got marked down.
We won't be here for Christmas, but I usually put a tree up at least a couple of weeks before.

[DangeloInspections]

We always put up a real tree each year the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Up north we would "tag" our real Douglas Fir tree at a tree farm in the middle of summer, and tie dozens of red bows on it, so when it snowed months later we could always find it without any stress. We would cut it, drag it down the hill in the snow and bring it home.

Here in Florida, we now have to go to a local place that brings in fresh Frazer Firs from N.C. My biggest up north was a 14 foot high Douglas Fir.....but now we just get a "little" 8 foot real tree.

My wife would never let me get a "fake" one. A real tree is a lot of work but she feels it is worth it.

Now that I have two of my three sons working for me and living local, having three out of our five grandkids over all the time makes the whole "real tree" project worth it every year.

Frank

[Fredman]

Kids are grown, no grandchildren, no tree

[seoulbrooks]

Saturday after Thanksgiving

[Henryk]

Originally Posted by aninjamom

When I was growing up, we put ours up on Christmas Eve. It was after I grew up that I realized that it was because that's when my dad could afford to get one after they got marked down.
We won't be here for Christmas, but I usually put a tree up at least a couple of weeks before.

my folks went out Christmas Eve for the markdown trees, too. It was a late night decorating.

My mother insisted on live trees. Nonetheless, she was eccentric is some ways. My brother was in the Marines one Christmas . My mother left the tree up in the middle of the living room, surrounded by fallen dry needles on the floor until July. The was virtually not a needle left on the tree.

[MrGolf]

We put our first tree up yesterday.

[JerryLBell]

Typically, the day after Thanksgiving or at least by that weekend.

[OpusX1]

No tree. First time in 49 years. This year we will be cruising from 12/12-1/3.

[CFrance]

My mother sent my father and me out by ourselves one Christmas eve to find a tree. We found the perfect tree... but it was only about 3.5 feet tall! Boy was she p***ed. It was cheap, though! We put it on top of the piano and were never allowed out alone again.

[rjn5656]

Since we are never here for christmas, we put up in mid november so we are all decorated for thanksgiving.

[Madelaine Amee]

No tree, not since our boys left and started their own traditions and we went to their house ..... Yea. We do, however, decorate inside and especially outside with lights.

As a child my family, for as long as I can remember, celebrated the 12 days of Christmas, not from the Carol, but from the Church. So tree went up Christmas Eve along with decorating the whole house inside, then 12 days later everything came down. I did, however, find this interesting fact when I was researching "why 12 days".

While these verses are what most of us associate with the "Twelve Days of Christmas," the phrase refers to an actual 12-day period. The 12 days of Christmas, in fact, are the days from Dec. 25, celebrated as the birth of Jesus Christ, to the Epiphany, celebrated on Jan. 6 as the day when the manifestation of Christ's glory was realized. So there is more to Christmas trees than meets the eye!

[CFrance]

My husband would leave the tree up year round. It makes him happy.

This is our tree right now. Amazon, $5. It will be bigger soon.

Originally Posted by CFrance

My husband would leave the tree up year round. It makes him happy.

This is our tree right now. Amazon, $5. It will be bigger soon.

My husband also loves to decorate so we have a big tree and also a small firefighter tree decorated with all of the ornaments people have given him through the years.