When will you put up your Xmas tree? (for UK people)

[aposhark]

My family always put it up on 24 December when I was a child, but as my wife tells me they start the festivities much earlier in Phils, we will put it up middle of December this year.

How about everybody else in the UK?

[maria_and_matt]

we will put ours up tomorrow.. my mum back home had her tree up nov 15

[James Hubbard]

I'll be putting it up when the wife gets over here and we get to celebrate christmas together again lol

she's really into all the christmas kitsch ... it doesn't really feel christmassy without being with her!

Jim

[South-east boy]

Isn't it meant to be within 12 days before and take it down within 12 days after?

I probably won't have one as I live on my own and my lounge is part finished with decorating done, but no carpet or correct furniture (just temporary stuff!).

[James Hubbard]

Isn't it meant to be within 12 days before and take it down within 12 days after?

I probably won't have one as I live on my own and my lounge is part finished with decorating done, but no carpet or correct furniture (just temporary stuff!).

In the Philippines, Christmas celebrations are the "ber" months ...

septemBer
octoBer
novemBer
decemBer

then ... the kids are still begging for christmas money til the end of Jan!

I had to shout

Balik ra mo sa pasko!
lolz

[triple5]

Isn't it meant to be within 12 days before and take it down within 12 days after?

I probably won't have one as I live on my own and my lounge is part finished with decorating done, but no carpet or correct furniture (just temporary stuff!).

Glad to see I'm not the only one who won't be bothering this year

[Ana_may365]

the last time i put our christmas tree was 3 years ago when we celebrate the x-mas and new year here in england,and its sooo boringand after that we always going back to phils every december to celebrate the x-mas and new year therecant compare to anyplace the way 'we filipino' celebrate the seasons like this

[Arthur Little]

In the Philippines, Christmas celebrations are the "ber" months ...

septemBer
octoBer
novemBer
decemBer

So I believe! Actually, I noticed that when I first visited the Phils a year past in September ... then, when I went back out there two months later, the festivities were in full-swing.

then ... the kids are still begging for christmas money til the end of Jan!

... Don't I just know it! I stayed on until the middle of February, the second time.

[Arthur Little]

I had to shout

Balik ra mo sa pasko!
lolz

... Care to elaborate, James?

[James Hubbard]

... Care to elaborate, James?

It means "come back at christmas" lol!

[Arthur Little]

Now ... back to the topic in hand! ... Well, when I was a small child in Glasgow, just a few years after the war ended, I seem to recollect my mum buying a REAL tree at a shop in Maryhill Road on Christmas Eve. Then, after my dad came home from work, he would put it in a big tub situated in the space surrounding the large bay window of our red sandstone tenement flat in North Kelvinside. I always remember him deftly twisting the slender flex of the fairy lights round each of the branches. The lights themselves, of course, were "home made", in that, he'd rustled up two sets of different sized aircraft bulbs from the munitions factory where he was employed as an electrician/scientific instrument maker, and painted them in several colours. Invariably, the larger set adorned the pelmet above the window frames.

Nowadays, however, I make do with a small fibre optic tree, which I'll probably retrieve from the attic approximately a week beforehand. A lot less hassle - and no needles to bother sweeping up - yet nothing can compare with those Christmases of my dim and distant childhood.

[Alan]

Now ... back to the topic in hand! ... Well, when I was a small child in Glasgow, just a few years after the war ended, I seem to recollect my mum buying a REAL tree at a shop in Maryhill Road on Christmas Eve. Then, after my dad came home from work, he would put it in a big tub situated in the space surrounding the large bay window of our red sandstone tenement flat in North Kelvinside. I always remember him deftly twisting the slender flex of the fairy lights round each of the branches. The lights themselves, of course, were "home made", in that, he'd rustled up two sets of different sized aircraft bulbs from the munitions factory where he was employed as an electrician/scientific instrument maker, and painted them in several colours. Invariably, the larger set adorned the pelmet above the window frames.

Nowadays, however, I make do with a small fibre optic tree, which I'll probably retrieve from the attic approximately a week beforehand. A lot less hassle - and no needles to bother sweeping up - yet nothing can compare with those Christmases of my dim and distant childhood.

Fond memories indeed of the ghosts of Christmas past!!
To me, Christmas is not the same since we went metric!
Also, nostalgia is not what it used to be!

Another Tanduay please Hanna.

Al.

[KeithD]

We don't have a tree, we just nail a Pagan to the telegraph pole outside the house

[Alan]

We don't have a tree, we just nail a Pagan to the telegraph pole outside the house

Don't blame you Keith. Bloody things always sh*****g on you!

Al.

[Ann07]

My husband follows the tradition 12 days before xmas and take it down 12 days after. But as what i was taught and i always do it here now i put it up before the last week of advent and take it down after the 3 kings

[Arthur Little]

Fond memories indeed of the ghosts of Christmas past!!
To me, Christmas is not the same since we went metric!
Also, nostalgia is not what it used to be!

Another Tanduay please Hanna.

Al.

How very true, Al ... everything has become so commercialised these days [especially at this time of year!]. I still treasure fond memories of my younger brother and I being put to bed after the Christmas tree had gone up ... and being exhorted gently - yet firmly - to go to *sleep (*not that we ever could! ) ... before "Santa" came. Ahh ... nostalgia ...

[pennybarry]

We don't fold and keep our Christmas tree.

We have big apple tree in the garden and put colourful Christmas lights 12 days before Christmas.

[Arthur Little]

We have big apple tree in the garden and put colourful Christmas lights 12 days before Christmas.

Ah ... now THERE's an , Pen! We, also, have a big apple [not NY City! ] tree ... which I planted as a sapling in OUR garden more than 40 years ago. It regularly bears fruit every autumn, btw.

[pennybarry]

Ah ... now THERE's an , Pen! We, also, have a big apple [not NY City! ] tree ... which I planted as a sapling in OUR garden more than 40 years ago. It regularly bears fruit every autumn, btw.

Wow! that's great Arthur! 40 years ago???????

It was my dream to see apple tree since my childhood.
That's why I am happy as we have apple tree. Big apple with pink inside.
But it's funny because I just love to sniff apples.

[KeithD]

When I was young (a loooooong time ago ), we used to have a lovely tree that always looked like the one the neighbours had lost the day before!

[acs]

When I was young (a loooooong time ago ), we used to have a lovely tree that always looked like the one the neighbours had lost the day before!

very funny boss.

I put up our christmas tree in the house a week after halloween dont have other time thats why done it.

[Jamesey]

No Christmas Tree in our house this year!

But before I'm accused of being a "Bah Humbug", it's because we'll be spending the festive season in the Philippines!

Actually, I remember the first time I visited the Philippines. It was September, so I was very surprised to walk into my hotel in Cebu and see that they had a nativity scene and a christmas tree up in the lobby!