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When's your tree going up?

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:55 pm

As im away all but one weekend between now and mid Jan, i've relented and put my tree and a bit of tinsel up.

Balcony lights can wait a bit, mind :lol:

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:01 pm

I put mine up on Christmas Day afternoon and take it down on the 28th December as tradition dictates.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Bosscat » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:01 pm

ŽižkovClaret wrote:
Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:55 pm
As im away all but one weekend between now and mid Jan, i've relented and put my tree and a bit of tinsel up.

Balcony lights can wait a bit, mind :lol:
I blame all these bloody Christmas Adverts for these darned early tree erections.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by BurnleyFC » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:03 pm

1st weekend in December, and usually down on the 2nd January.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by yTib » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:04 pm

last year the house across the road had theirs up in late october.

it took a great deal of effort on my behalf not to put a brick through their window.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Tonto » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:06 pm

First Christmas at home for a few years so Dec 1st for us so an early erection,hope it'll last until the new year 😳
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Clovius Boofus » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:10 pm

The first weekend in December.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Goobs » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:30 pm

Tree will go up on the 3rd of December it will all.come back down 1st weekend after New Year.

The Christmas Movies and playlist will however start to see som airtime from this weekend.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Burnley1989 » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:38 pm

The Mrs has always put it up on her birthday (6th Dec) since she was a child and even at 35 she doesn't seem to want to grow out of the tradition, I don't get involved though in decorations other than outside lights and going up and down from the loft.

Tree usually comes down on the 28-29th because she starts getting fed up with the house being a mess with presents etc...

As you may be able to tell, I couldn't care less about Christmas but as the saying goes, Happy Wife, Happy life.
We have booked to go to see Home Alone at the cinema on Christmas Eve, I'll enjoy that with the kids and a few beers
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Florian » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:42 pm

December
Taken down day aftee boxing day

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Vegas Claret » Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:55 pm

I haven't taken it down since 1982
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Carlos the Great » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:06 pm

I’ve had the same Xmas tree for 25 years … I’ve had to add some new tinsel and keep up with the times .. so Mary is now a transgender …

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by claretburns » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:10 pm

For me it can wait until Christmas Eve, my Mrs will probably do it when I am on the West Ham game though.

On a similar topic it was ridiculous that Christmas songs were on in the Park View before the Palace game.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by bfcjg » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:10 pm

First weekend in December, grandchildren love it.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by timshorts » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:12 pm

It's still bonfire season in east sussex, last one being next weekend at Robertsbridge. Christmas doesn't really get going until after bonfire disruption.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Commy » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:44 pm

Mine is already up as it is in a pot in the garden, although a bit bare at the minute. I won't be bringing it in this year as it is now getting too heavy, so I will have to buy outdoor decs for it.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Quickenthetempo » Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:51 pm

It's not

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Shaggy » Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:08 pm

Mid December, around the 12th and back down again 1st week into January

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Tribesmen » Tue Nov 14, 2023 7:34 am

Not for me this year as away for 3 weeks during December , it can stay in it's box .

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by ClaretAndJew » Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:16 am

I never decorate for Christmas. Too much clutter and mess.

Christmas? Bah humbug.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:20 am

If it was my choice it would go up 23rd December as it is it will be done 2nd December, hopefully I don't walk into it and knock it over on my return from 3 points against the blades.

It will come down either 1st or 2nd Jan

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by claptrappers_union » Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:02 am

People who really love Christmas generally irritate me.

They seem to want to ‘start’ it earlier every year and expect reasonable folk like me - who thinks around December 10th is appropriate enough, to join in with them.

Then there's Love Actually. I can't describe how much I hate that film and anyone who likes it. There is an inner rage that rumbles from deep within, the same rage that Cliff Richard used to evoke 20 years ago. But since he's not really a thing anymore, that film has replaced him… it makes me accept the world deserves to be annihilated for its existence

Whenever friends, family or acquaintances remark ‘its not Christmas without it’ I have to leave the room and mentally plan a scenario explaining why mass murder is justified in an imaginary courtroom.
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Eloise Laws » Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:21 am

Week before Christmas Eve for me, so always around 17th and it comes down on 2 Jan.
I love everything about Christmas, but it does seem to start earlier and earlier every year….the week before is time enough for me. As with everything, each to their own….

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by rufus lumley » Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:24 am

The gap bewteen taking the Diwali lights down and heading to a farm to pick your own tree in the field seens to get smaller each year.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Clovius Boofus » Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:01 am

What I hate about Christmas is the over-commercialisation. Shops full of Christmas tat on sale in October. Emails from supermarkets, and all the rest, flooding into your inbox when November has barely started. Shops playing those awful Christmas pop songs in November.

And don't get me on about those over-expensive Christmas markets that members of my family want to drag me along to every year. Why would I want to pay a tenner for a single frankfurter that's come all the way from a jar bought in the local Lidl, and another tenner for a pint, just so I can stand around in Manchester's St Ann's Square, amongst the stalls selling poundshop fudge and marshmallows at such inflated rates that they would make the Weimar Republic blush.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by dsr » Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:29 am

Up 1st day of Advent, which this year is 3rd December. (4th Sunday before Christmas.)

Down Twelfth Night, 6th January.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Oldparkwood » Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:32 am

Clovius Boofus wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:01 am
What I hate about Christmas is the over-commercialisation. Shops full of Christmas tat on sale in October. Emails from supermarkets, and all the rest, flooding into your inbox when November has barely started. Shops playing those awful Christmas pop songs in November.

And don't get me on about those over-expensive Christmas markets that members of my family want to drag me along to every year. Why would I want to pay a tenner for a single frankfurter that's come all the way from a jar bought in the local Lidl, and another tenner for a pint, just so I can stand around in Manchester's St Ann's Square, amongst the stalls selling poundshop fudge and marshmallows at such inflated rates that they would make the Weimar Republic blush.
You sound like a right laugh
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Post by ac99 » Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:34 pm

first Sunday in December goes up, 6th January comes down. Traditional

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Stan Tastic » Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:08 pm

Burnley1989 wrote:
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:38 pm
The Mrs has always put it up on her birthday (6th Dec) since she was a child and even at 35 she doesn't seem to want to grow out of the tradition, I don't get involved though in decorations other than outside lights and going up and down from the loft.

Tree usually comes down on the 28-29th because she starts getting fed up with the house being a mess with presents etc...

As you may be able to tell, I couldn't care less about Christmas but as the saying goes, Happy Wife, Happy life.
We have booked to go to see Home Alone at the cinema on Christmas Eve, I'll enjoy that with the kids and a few beers
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:36 pm

No tree this year but decorations up mid December, cards as they arrive and all down on 6th January.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by elwaclaret » Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:42 pm

Natasha is already threatening.
I have one rule and that is nothing goes up and I don’t talk about Christmas, until after Remembrance Sunday…
So I’m preparing for the worst.

Down usually on 2nd, odd times I give her until the day before All Fools Day… when I insist it’s all over.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Vintage Claret » Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:11 pm

This thread reminds me of a classic Gary Delaney joke...

Me in B&Q " "I'd like a 7 foot Christmas tree please"

B&Q assistant: "Are you going to put it up yourself?"

Me: "No, I was thinking the living room actually "

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by BradTee93 » Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:25 pm

Normally the last weekend in November/First in December.

But this year...its going up this weekend! :lol: Seeing as I've commitments the following 2 weekends which means the daughter is having sleepovers at the grandparents, she'd kill me if I didn't put it up with her helping

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Carlos the Great » Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:05 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:36 pm
No tree this year but decorations up mid December, cards as they arrive and all down on 6th January.
Do people even know the significance of 6 th January anymore ? :…

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Venkys4eva » Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:25 pm

30th of November until the 2nd of January. We have already wrapped all our pressies 🎄 🎅 🌟

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Post by steve1264b » Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:43 pm

Tree going up between 1.30pm and 5.30pm sat 2 december.

I wont be in!

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:42 pm

Carlos the Great wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:05 pm
Do people even know the significance of 6 th January anymore ? :…
I don’t know but I do
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by dsr » Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:51 pm

It does save a little time in that we don't dismantle our trees each year, we just move them down into the cellar fully decorated. The lights round the window are a bit of a beggar, though. I suggested leaving them up all year round, just don't switch them on, but no luck with that one.

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Post by Somethingfishy » Tue Nov 14, 2023 6:21 pm

dsr wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:29 am
Up 1st day of Advent, which this year is 3rd December. (4th Sunday before Christmas.)

Down Twelfth Night, 6th January.
That is exactly what we do. Broadly in line with Advent and the 12 days/Epiphany.

I get irritated by people who put them up in November then you hear them crowing that they've taken them down just after Boxing Day because they have got fed up of the mess. Usually the wifes friends. Philistines.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by turbo5 » Tue Nov 14, 2023 7:04 pm

When Burnley win

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Quicknick » Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:40 pm

I have never had one, never will.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Chobulous » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:02 pm

Carlos the Great wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:05 pm
Do people even know the significance of 6 th January anymore ? :…
Donald tried to take over the world

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Post by Kilson810 » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:26 pm

turbo5 wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2023 7:04 pm
When Burnley win
Might miss Christmas 2023 then :lol:
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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Kilson810 » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:31 pm

Ours will be going up 16-Nov, day after my birthday. The wife loves Christmas, so I've decided that if I can't beat them then I'll join them and get swept up in the Christmas spirit early.

Merry Christmas all!

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by jrgbfc » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:51 pm

What is it about (mainly) women being obsessed with putting the tree up stupidly early?

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by fidelcastro » Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:24 pm

Why bother?

Trees are meant to grow out of the ground.

They're not meant to be in your living room.

Too many people are like sheep.

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by AmbleClaret » Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:27 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:51 pm
It's not
Same here :lol:

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by jos » Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:21 pm

It went up in the loft ages ago!

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Rileybobs » Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:57 pm

fidelcastro wrote:
Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:24 pm
Why bother?

Trees are meant to grow out of the ground.

They're not meant to be in your living room.

Too many people are like sheep.
Why celebrate Christmas at all?

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Re: When's your tree going up?

Post by Jakubclaret » Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:10 pm

fidelcastro wrote:
Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:24 pm
Why bother?

Trees are meant to grow out of the ground.

They're not meant to be in your living room.

Too many people are like sheep.
I agree, but you are supposed to make some sort of an effort if you have children get into the spirit of things, Xmas is for kids in the main I think it's magical to them.
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