I have a friend who puts it all up on Thanksgiving day. Sort of a Thanksgiving day tradition. (don't you have too much to do that day already?)

The weird part... it all comes down on Christmas day!

We do. In fact, we are taking down the Thanksgiving decor Sunday (I am working til Saturday). Putting up Xmas lights and decor the same day. Some of my neighbors already have their Christmas lights since last week. Xmas lights and decor dont come down until after Three Kings.

We put most of ours last weekend, we have a lot. The wife lit them up last night to check them.
today we did the flagpole tree lights and lit everything up.
This weekend we will put out the Boxer, ;-(, and the garage door wrap and the wreaths on the windows and that will be it.

Did ours last weekend but that was only because we are away for Thanksgiving.

1st of November thru 1st of February here. I've got two big time Christmas girls here - wife is born exactly one week before Christmas and daughter is born exactly one week after Christmas on January 1st.
I missed that tax break in 2003 by >that< much, dag nab it!

The day after Thanksgiving my wife lets me eat breakfast and read the newspaper and then it's an all day affair putting up and decorating the 5 Christmas trees we have.

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Originally posted by P220forever:
daughter is born exactly one week after Christmas on January 1st.
I missed that tax break in 2003 by >that< much, dag nab it!

I missed being a 1/1 baby by about 8 hrs. Would've shared a birthday with my mom then. But I'll take 1/2 instead.

My tree goes up the week before and comes down the week after.

Yes as it was meant to be.

Our tradition is no Christmas music or decorations until after the Thanksgiving dinner dishes are cleaned from the table.

Usually, Thanksgiving night when I get home, or the next day. But this year I got the trees at least up early.

ARman

Always. I hate starting in on a new holiday before the last one is over.

I usually put them up on or about Black Friday since that’s the traditional Christmas season for us. I take them down January 2nd.

We usually put ours up the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Looks to be cold and snowy here in Northeast Indiana Saturday maybe the outside light will have to wait a couple days

Weekend after thanksgiving, weather dependent is when I do house lights.

So many houses in my areas last 2 weeks with Christmas lights and inflatables up. Drives me mad something just wrong about it. Wait till after the turkey has flushed down the toilet.

My daughter was born 12-31. So I did get that tax break that year. At least we do fireworks for her birthday. I’ve been telling her whole life they are for her birthday anyway. lol

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Originally posted by P220forever:
1st of November thru 1st of February here. I've got two big time Christmas girls here - wife is born exactly one week before Christmas and daughter is born exactly one week after Christmas on January 1st.
I missed that tax break in 2003 by >that< much, dag nab

Thanks everyone.

Last night when we were getting home from a friends house for thanksgiving we saw our neighbor. She was working on finishing touches for her decorations she had been working on for the last week.

I told her tomorrow "Friday" was the big day for me to start decorating.

I will start with the candy cane signs we have for the front yard, the Christmas tree wreath for the front door and if the star shower works I will set that up in the front yard, total time 15 minutes, she laughed.

After that we work on the three foot Christmas tree in our living room.

Years ago even though we did not decorate the outside of the house we would go all out on the inside.
Live Christmas tree all decorated, other areas around the housed all done up and ready for Santa. Over the last few years it has only been my wife and I so we scaled way back.

Again thanks everyone and because it is the day after Thanksgiving, Have a Merry Christmas.

Snowing for the past 6 hours here in western Montana on "Black Friday" and the tree is up, and being decorated at this very minute ! Fire going in the stove, and time for a hot totty, lol !

We put ours up on Black Friday.

Tree went up today, letting the cats acclimate to it before decorating
Rained off & on all day, so haven't started on the outside yet