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Poll: Holiday Decorations

Well all pretty much know when the appropriate time to take down holiday decorations would be, but when is it appropriate to put up holiday decorations?

I have been itching to put up Halloween decs for the past couple of weeks, but have been holding out until October 1st. I think I may put some of the generic fall decs up this weekend and wait to put up the true Halloween decs for another week or so. So what's your take?

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Re: Poll: Holiday Decorations

  • I am THAT person :) The one that always puts up fall decor September 1st, and Halloween decor October 1st! Christmas begins in our house on Thanksgiving..ha ha. We put the tree up Thanksgiving evening as a family tradition. I LOVE the holidays! The earlier the better in my opinion!
  • I voted that it varies.  Yesterday I saw an ad for some really cheap, cute Halloween door mats and I asked myself-"is this too early?"  Then my brain said "heck no, put it up and enjoy it!"  I don't put things up early (actually late) but that's just b/c of laziness.  I think it's worse to leave your decorations up way after the holiday. 
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  • UCBride- I'm so with ya! We also put up our decorations once the month of the holiday hits! haha We too put the tree up on Thanksgiving, but in all fairness the tree and everything else Christmas is down on Christmas day. Growing up we always opened presents, ate breakfast, put all the gifts away and then took all the decorations down. Our neighbors used to have bets on how early we'd be outside in our jammies and boots taking down the lights. haha
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  • My traditions vary somewhat.

    I put up generic autumn decorations Sep 1.

    Halloween decorations Oct 1.

    Thanksgiving decorations Nov 1.

    Christmas decorations anytime after Thanksgiving.

  • I picked 4-6 weeks.  I feel like any closer to the holiday than that you really don't get to enjoy it.  Why put things out a week or so before and then take them down right after...to me it not worth pulling everything out to turn around and put it right back.
  • H is a scrooge and won't even let me have a christmas tree. So no decorating here.
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    H is a scrooge and won't even let me have a christmas tree. So no decorating here.

    This would be cause for divorce in my house.

    I answered "2 to 4 weeks." That is true for all holidays except Christmas which I think is appropriate to put up at any old time you choose because Christmas rocks. But I put up Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. I keep Christmas up through the Epiphany. The 12 Days of Christmas are the 12 days AFTER Christmas (Christmas to Epiphany), not the 12 days before! I am always saddened when I see trees out in the trash before Epiphany.     

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  • I picked "It varies" ... to be honest, some holidays I just don't decorate for.  Although I don't have any problem with it for other people, I just can't bring myself to decorate for every season and minor holiday - I'm either too lazy or too ... well, okay, probably just too lazy.  :)

    But Christmas??  I've been ready to decorate for Christmas for more than a month now, and after Thanksgiving dinner is done, those decorations go up.  Seriously.  Same day.  Sometimes day after, depending on how late I serve dinner.  And they stay up until Epiphany ... and they all have to come down on the sixth.  OCD.  A little.

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