I try to start the day after black friday. last year i bought tons of stuff at 90% off at CVS and Target so we have lots more to put up this year!!!!!

I can't wait.

Last year I put mine up the week before thanksgiving..but I will put it up when I get time..maybe black friday after all done shopping I need a place to put the gifts that I get after I get them wrapped..

since I was little we always did it on my birthday (Dec. 1).. tradition has stuck with me and even though my dh thinks I'm nuts (he has a hard time with the holidays) I still do it. Of course, I always take inventory of what I have and what I want that I still need right after Halloween.. I love that time of the year!

I start on Nov 1st But my husband tries to get the lights up outside in mid October but he won't turn them on until Thanksgiving.

The Day after Turkey Day or that weekend... maybe the outside lights a little earlier because we live on Ohio

Normally, we put up decorations on Thanksgiving, but I think we are going to start decorating a week earlier this year. The last couple of years, we didn't feel like decorating on Thanksgiving, then we were so busy we didn't have the time to devote to it. So decorations didn't get put up at all.

Try to after Thanksgiving dinner.

We usually start the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we may start the weekend before.
We've got a LOT of stuff we use to decorate inside and outside, so it takes about a week to get it all done.

November 1st. I go straight from Halloween to Christmas!! Oh I can't wait!!!

We try to have them up the first week of December. The outdoor lights we get out in October. The yard decorations go up in December though.

This year we're going to have a little more than last year though. Not having to deal with my dads passing will make the holidays a lot nicer than last year!

Bring it on!

-Mike

We usually start putting up decorations sometime between Tgiving and Christmas. It's typically closer to Tgiving, the weekend afterwards or next.

I always used to start December 1st, but for the past couple of years DH and the girls have started putting up the tree while I am out shopping on Black Friday. I guess that is our new tradition!

We use to do it the second weekend in Dec. but last year was the first year that DH decided he was not celebrating Christmas anymore and I was in such a depressed state over the fact that I did not decorate our home. I spent Christmas Eve and Day at my moms and inlaws and they both decorated. I am not sure what to do this year. I feel so bad for DD4 because she will have no memories of her dad and Christmas like our older children do.

We start string up the outside lights a weekend or two before Thanksgiving, depending on the weather but do not turn them on until Thanksgiving weekend. Sometime in Nov my daughter will start asking to put up her Christmas tree. She has a small 2 1/2 foor tree for her bedroom. That is normally up and decorated before thanksgiving. I will start the rest of the decorating right after Thanksigiving dinner and the Saturday after. If we get back from shopping early enough on BF then we will decorate that day too.

Thanksgiving weekend.

usually the first week of December if I can get dh to help

We always put ours up Thanksgiving weekend. ON Black Friday after I have shopped all day, we go out as a family and get the tree. On Saturday and Sunday we put on lights, ornaments, and decorate the inside and outside of the house.

General decorations start going up Black Friday (in the evening) and Saturday; the tree goes up on Sunday.

The weekend after Thanksgiving.

Normally I start putting stuff out the weekend after Thanksgiving but I normally don't put the tree up until after ds' birthday on the Dec. 8th.

You mean you're supposed to take them down?!?!?!


hehehe...right after Thanksgiving

DH and I made our own little tradition our first Christmas, we always put the tree up the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I am so happy all the holiday and BF threads have started! I love talking about it and reading about it!!:)

Usually sometime the week after Thanksgiving

November 1st. I go straight from Halloween to Christmas!! Oh I can't wait!!!

Me too! :smirk:

December 1st, usually.

Anytime after my DD bday. Her bday is Nov. 10th and I want her to have the house decorated for her day, not Christmas. I have a dec. bday and I used to hate getting bday things in Christmas paper, or Christmas things for my bday. So after her party on the 11th, its fair game to decorate for Christmas.

Normally we would always do it Black friday...buuuutttt last year I did it on my bday Nov 16, so THATS going to be OUR new tradition LOL

We usually start either Thanksgiving night or before with the lights. The tree and everything comes the weekend after Thanksgiving including after I get home from BF. Just depends on DH's work schedule.

As soon as dh will let me! (And as soon as I can get his butt up the ladder to put up the outside lights!);)

This year, I'll probably do Thanksgiving.
DH is working, and no one will be visiting. So it'll
just be me and the kiddos.. so nuthin else to do. :)

Lights will go up in Oct, before too much snow falls. Indoor decorations the sunday after Thanksgiving.

If I could put the decorations up tomorrow, I would. My dh and dd always tell me that it's too early and that we have to wait until after turkey day:( .

we usually do our decorations the week before Thanksgiving but starting this year I am not going all out..Just a tree probably..We had all of our big inflatables stolen out of our yard last year so it kind of killed my holiday decorating spirit.

its a tradition here at my house to do day after thanksgiving, since usually by noon i'm home from my shopping adventure and too excited by my buys to get any sleep lol

This is getting me seriously excited for Christmas!!!

We usually decorate on Thanksgiving or Black Friday. We've got a ton more stuff this year though since I hit the clearance sales last year. Actually, I don't even really remember what I bought. That's going to be exciting in itself opening up the boxes and seeing what's in there!! :D

We start December 1st, after my sons birthday

The week before Thanksgiving. I will go outside and struggle with the lights and go up on the ladder. This freaks hubby out, so out he comes to take over.:g_shrug: Thats one way to get some help! ;)

I usually try to do it over the Thanksgiving weekend. When my oldest was younger I would wait until after his birthday (another Dec. 1 child!!) but with work schedules, the long weekend works better. We haven't decorated outside for several years as my husband is now disabled, but I long to put lights on the tree out front-- maybe oldest child and I will tackle it this year! Of course indoors is fairly easy as the Snowglobes stay out year round so the tree and if I can swing it, some greenery (we have a small house).

always black friday night

I try to have it up so I can turn it all on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Lights will go up in Oct, before too much snow falls. Indoor decorations the sunday after Thanksgiving. Same here! :holiday07

We use to put outdoor lights up in October but after buying over $150 in lights last year that almost all ended up ruined I'm not doing outside decorations this year. For indoor decorations, we started putting everything up the day of the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State game. We start on stuff before the game, set down together to watch the game then finish after the game while discussing the game.

Thanksgiving weekend usually start after shopping black friday

usually right after halloween, i can't see putting my everyday stuff up til thanksgiving and then having to take it all back down. Hubby thinks I'm crazy but whats new!

I usually start the 1St of November!!!

Always Thanksgiving Weekend

HAHAHAHA... I almost put mine up yesterday! ALMOST. I have a lovely fake tree that can go up and down at a moments notice. I'm big on themes and details so I need time to get it right, make a list of what I need to shop for to complete my decorations. Truth be told, I'll probably put it up this week since it's been on my mind ever since the stores had theirs up.

Everything has to be perfect for party time December 24th!

usually about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving everyone laughs at us but who cares.

usually about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving everyone laughs at us but who cares.

That's exactly what I tell myself "who cares?" It's all good clean fun. If you don't like it, don't come over. HA!

Sometime around Thanksgiving. (Normally the day after.)

We start our decoration the week of Thanksgiving and turn on the light Thankgiving night:)

Black Friday is also decorating day in my house :)

I'm too excited, I want to start now, but.... I will try and wait 2 weeks before Thanksgiving.:)

We Start The Day After Thanksgiving

I'll be putting up the outside lights sometime in October, depending on weather. DH is NO help with that, so it takes me awhile to crawl around on the roof getting things just right.

Then the inside decorating will start either the week of Thanksgiving (if we're going somewhere else for Tday) or Thanksgiving weekend if we're having everyone to our house.

The outside lights come on late Thursday night/early Friday morning when I leave to go shopping.

November 1st. I go straight from Halloween to Christmas!! Oh I can't wait!!!

So true!!! It takes us almost a week straight to get the outside lights up and then another week to do the inside. We decorate everything inside and out that can be decorated.

We put our tree up about the second week of Oct. But we put orange lights and paper pumpkins and fake maples leaves all over it and call it our harvest tree. Then right after Halloween we sit and make hand turkeys for every member of the family(there are only 4 of us so we each make 2) and we place the new turkeys as well as the ones from past years on the tree. The on black Friday we carefully undecorate and redecorate for Christmas.

I also hang a orange paper chain around my front room. and the same night we make the turkeys we make strips of paper that we write what we are thankful on and add them to the chain that was hung in Oct. I have little kids so last year it was thing like marshmallow and hot wheels. I LOVE IT!!!!

Oh and we are North Idaho so my DH does the outside lights the first weekend in Nov and then we turn them on with our own family lighting ceremony the evening of black Friday. We even make sure to put sparkles away during the 4th of July so that we have some just for that night. We turn on the Christmas lights and light sparklers----OK so we may just take this holiday thing a little to serious----NAAAAAA

I start on Nov 1st But my husband tries to get the lights up outside in mid October but he won't turn them on until Thanksgiving.



Us too. I can't wait!

we start the night of Black friday!!

We put the christmas lights up outside mid November.. while it is still nice out...LOL

This year will be different, My hubby and I have decided that choosing white carpet and having two young kids was not he best choice. So we decided on a beige & it goes in October 27, so why put back all the other knicknacks I am going staight into Christmas.

usually the weekend before Thanksgiving

I normally wait until about the 2nd weekend in December cause we get a real tree. We participate in 2 local Christmas parades which take up our first two weekends.

Every year I say I'm gonna start earlier cause I always seem to run out of time. Maybe I should start Thanksgiving weekend and just not put up the tree.

I got one of those huge blow up thingies for the yard after Christmas last year and I can't wait to put it up!

It takes me 3 nweeks to decorate so I start in Novemeber so I gan get the tree first week in Dec we do real

In recent years I have taken down Halloween decorations and put up Christmas decorations on November 1st. However, now that the kids are getting older, and have started complaining, I am going to TRY to wait until the weekend before Thanksgiving. I put up a lot of decorations outside, and decorate every room in the house so it takes alot of time and I want to enjoy it for awhile.LOL I am using alot of pumpkins and scarecrows this year that will go on through Halloween so hopefully that will help curb the urge to decrate early.

I have always waited until I came home on BF, but I am starting to think about doing it earlier this year. I am soooooooooo ready for hot chocolate, pepermint candles, and coldish weather (I live in Texas..we don't really get the whole snow thing). Oh and the clay mation kids movies...Gotta love those!! I am just a Christmas junkie, I admit it.:holiday08 :holiday16 :holiday08 :holiday16 :holiday08 :holiday16

Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving.

I am ready to decorate now, but I will hold off until Nov 1st. (only because we decorate a lot for Halloween too) My husband will be off, so he can carry all my boxes out of the basement. :D

I have a friend who decorated last week. :D

We usually get my mom to make until a week or so after Thanksgiving and then there's no holding her back, she loves putting up the tree and decorations.

I think we will start on Thanksgiving this year. Usually I am working that day, so this year will be a nice change. :) I really want to get the tree put up that day. It will be nice to start a new tradition with the kids.

We normally put them up the first week of Dec. but this year I am doing it early.

weekend of Thanksgiving. Thats the earliest my husband will let me. Yes, hes a grinch. Hates all the hauling of christmas stuff into the house. I love it, but he dreads it so much. LOL.

Usually The Weekend Before , We Exchange Gifts W/family From Out Of Town And Want The Christmas Feel When We're Together....:)

My dh said that there was someone in our town that already has their tree up and I want to but he wont let me but dds birthday is nov 17 and dh will be hunting that week so I think that its going up around then last year I had it up before her b day so I think that I'm going to keep doin that..lol.. Now I just have to wrap the few gifts that I have so that when I do get the tree up it doesn't look bare!

I usually start after Thanksgiving

The last three Christmases have been very depressing for me. In 2004 my husband was in Iraq, then in 2005 my grandma died, she was like a mom to me, and my son moved out of my house just weeks before Thanksgiving last year :( He went and grew up on me... darn him! I used to decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving, but I actually decorated on Christmas eve those last three years. My husband surprised me in 2005 and came home three days before christmas and he decorated that year. I hope to decorate right after thanksgiving this year though!!!

Thanksgiving weekend. If people didn't think I was crazy, I'd do it right now!! Forget Halloween, bring on Christmas!

I scheduled November 2 off so I can start. :g_clap:

Turkey day:smirk:

I'm hoping to start decorating inside the weekend after Thanksgiving. Outside, I don't mind waiting a bit longer. Our December bill was one of our highest bills last year even though we only had 5 strands of lights. I splurged on 90% off day last year and stocked up on LED lights (take up less electricity) but I also bought a couple small inflatables so I think the electricity savings will balance out....

I decorate the day before Thanksgiving. That way when I get all of the gifts wrapped that I bought on BF I can just stick them under the tree.

The last week of November.
I can never wait until Dec!

Our Christmas music starts playing the day after Thanksgiving. LOVE IT! Warm 106.9 !!

The lights go up before thanksgiving on a nice day but they dont get turned on till BF,..teh tree goes up after Thanksgiving dinner towrds evening and we do nicknacks and stuff then or after we shop on BF. I like to get the tree up and start putting presents under there asap..i love the look of it all..watching the movies,..sittin with the kids!

Thanksgiving weekend....I'd DH to bring the boxes down sooner, but I don't have anywhere to put them all until the guests leave :-)

if it were up to me, we would have the house decorated all year:yup: :p ...... the day after thanksgiving for the tree, but i start putting out nicknacks just after halloween

We do the trees (we decorate four!) on Thanksgiving weekend and the outside lights go up Black Friday afternoon. All other decorations come out during Thanksgiving weekend and the following week.

I can't wait!!!!

Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving!

Usually over the weekend after Thanksgiving. No particular day, just whenever it fits into our schedule. Also, it can sometimes be an ongoing thing. We might start decorating on Saturday, but not finish till Monday. Depends on how busy we are, etc.

Elena

I was on my way home tonight and drove by a house that was fully decked out.

They had all of their christmas lights going and a full yard to other stand up & blow up christmas decor!!!!!

I couldn't believe my eyes.

Now Ally DD3, is begging us to put ours up. I think she almost has her Daddy talked into it. I just told him that they have to be put up anyway, so why not go ahead and do it.

We do the majority on the afternoon of BF..... However hubby is on vacation the whole week, so we are staring hte week of BF.

Next week(when it is warmer) I'll take down the Halloween lights (they are not on anymore) and put up the Christmas (won't be on till last week of November)..LOL

Depending on what time I get home on BF!! LOL!!!

Usually, BF Night or that weekend.

I think we (I) will put up the outside house lights this weekend but save garland for Thanksgiving night.

I actually wanted to start putting stuff up a few days ago...that feeling passed quickly though lol

I used to do it on BF, but that was before I went out and shopped that day! Now that I shop BF, I usually put the tree up shortly before BF, or sometimes that Saturday

We try to start Thanksgiving weekend. On Thanksgiving we're too busy with dinner and then I pour through the ads and plan my shopping attack. Then on BF by the time I'm done shopping I'm exhausted.

Around the second weekend in December, I don't like to have my decorations out too early.

I'm actually thinking of putting up my outdoor Christmas lights this weekend before it gets ice cold. ( Of course it is set to snow tonight LOL) I will not turn them on until after Thanksgiving. The first year we moved here, my DH was deployed and my parents came up for a visit. my WONDERFUL dad helped me do up the front of my house in lights. Mind you, it was about 15 below and that was NOT with the wind chill factor. I learned my lesson that year!! I always try to get them done ahead of time now so that I don't go through that ever again LOL!!!:eyepoppin

Last year, I started Thanksgiving evening. We live away from relatives, so it's always just us. My dh has worked the last couple Thanksgivings for triple time, so the kids and I started out decorating on BF, but moved it up last year. This year, probably BF. We'll see how anxious we get on Thanksgiving day. ;)

My tree went up on Saturday and hubby is busy with the outside lights. Everything inside and out will be done by this weekend.

I have pretty much waited as long as I can, and we got everything out and dusted it off, checked lights, and so on last weekend. So, this weekend, everything's going up. I had planned to wait another week, but I've already waited a week longer than I usually do, so it's fair game now.lol

My neighbor and I (we live in a townhouse/duplex) started hanging up on Sunday we will finish up outside this weekend. Inside will wait till Thanksgiving weekend.

W/e after Thanksgiving. I think me personally that it is a bad omen for me if I put them up b4. I am so into Xmas though that I keep putting up more decorations thru the month of Dec.
My wife says I'm nuts about it:D. Last year I was still putting some up on Xmas eve! I love this time of year.

My daughter is 9, so I think this will be the last year for Santa:no: I can keep the secret only so long...every time she asks if he is real, I answer a ? with a ?, and ask her if she can still hear the bells ring (Polar Express).

Sorry so long, but I looooooooooooooovve this time of year!!!!!:D

I cant wait to start decorating! Usually we have our tree up by Thanksgiving. Im not sure if we are going to do it this year or not because DH is working alot. He does the lights on the tree because he puts 2500 lights on it and I wont do it! Too much work. He calls it pretty, I call it a fire hazard. lol! I have been itching to get my new Christmas decorations out though!

2500 lights! coooooool:D

I start on black Friday.

YIPPEEE!! I got my tree(s) finished tonight!!!! They look great!--I figure if the store can do it, then so can I...I have a big tree in our living room and nativity scenes, nutscracker, snowmen, and of course Santas all over the place. I have a skinny, but tall tree in my DH's bedroom and it is decorated all girly and my son has a cheap-o tree decorated...after it was decorated, it looked really good..Before kids, I started the day after Thanksgiving. Now, I know all about BF, so I reserve that day to shop. Also, I've learned that by decorating early, I can bribe/threatened the kids into behaving better between no and Christmas.

God I love you people! I feel less than crazy for wanting to drag it all out tomorrow! Wife keeps laughing at me but says its OK for me to go hog wild any time. I secretly watch Christmas specials when she's at work already, LOL!

As much as I love to decorate, I just can't seem to find the time anymore. Between being a single mom, work and 2 teenagers and their activites, I barely have time to cook anymore.

I didn't even decorate for Halloween this year.

Just put out my turkey flag this morning.

Every year I swear I'm gonna get more organized. I bought one of those big blowup things for the year and I HAVE to put that out this year. I really wish I could hire someone to decorate my yard for me.

well i just started today.......... when i was little it use to be black friday that we would decorate.......... i just dont have time for that now, so i do it the week before thanksgiving.

I always start on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. We have done that for quite a while now, and my kids really look forward to it! My DH thinks that it is a little early, but we outnumber him!!! ;)

I put my outside lights in time for Thanksgiviving. then, as night comes, I put them on. It reminds me how the Christmas season is starting. After that, I don't put them back on til Dec. 1. My indoor decorating doesn't start till till I get the tree.

The day after Thanksgiving :D

If I have time while cleaning & cooking on Turkey day!!

BF or the Saturday after BF.

Our tree has been up since last week.

Ill put the the tree up BF since i'm getting a new one! And prolly finish my decorating over the weekend! Normally this would all have been done!:)

I usually put my stuff up Thansgiving weekend. I did put my light up outside last weekend. I went out and put the rest of my stuff outside today since it was in the 60`s today. Last day for nice weather for a few months. :( I have to wait to do my tree and inside decorations until next week though since I will have my cousin`s 1 year old all weekend. LOL. We will let him see(tear up) her tree first and see how he does before I do mine. LOL.

I need to take out all my Christmas things. I have three days off of work and need to go shopping too.

tomorrow :)

I'm hoping to get it up the last weekend in November... so next weekend?

DH did all the outside decorating today before I got home from work.... looks great! It's a day early, but he has to work from tomorrow through Sunday and it was 70 degrees here today, going to be only 40 tomorrow and dropping from there over the weekend so I think it was a good idea to go ahead..... scared me though when I found out he took DGD3 up on the roof with him..... he tied a rope around her and also around the chimney, but still... she's THREE.... then again she probably wouldn't let Papaw go without her... lol

Inside I have put the tree together and all 3 DS will decorate it while I am out shopping Friday morning... well my niece is babysitting and will probably let them sleep till noon so they will do it Friday afternoon.... lol.... then I will do the rest of the house over the weekend...

we usually do it on dec 6th ds birthday.