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on the 1st weekend in Dec!......
Sex God
week before christmas for mine and comes down a week after, no tinsel either
I love christmas but if I put the tree up now the kids wold be asking every night for the next 5 weeks if santa is coming in the morning!!
I love christmas but if I put the tree up now the kids wold be asking every night for the next 5 weeks if santa is coming in the morning!!
Quote by dazandlou:shock: Are you sure you havn't just forgotten to take it down from last year? :shock:
I ask because i've just put my Xmas tree up. and theres already a nice little collection of presents under it!! is it too early to have done it?? when do you all put your trees and decs up?????
We will probably be rushing round christmas eve putting ours up!
Wrapping always seems to get left until late christmas eve to - so we got in the habit of doing the kids a little christmas stocking for the end of the beds. The deal was, they would get up whenever they wanted but were confined to the upstairs with their stockings. Then, around 9 ish, they would bring us a cup of tea in bed and delightedly sit on our bed and go through all the stuff in their stockings with us.
Then wander down around 10 (and not before the preparation of a second cup of tea), and open the presents.
My eldest is 21 now, and will still be there on the end of our bed christmas morning.
Mind you, this will be the first christmas that they will not all be there. Number two daughter will have her own little one sitting on the end of her bed this year. :upset:
lhk
Quote by Calista
Our's goes up on xmas eve and comes down the day after boxing day .... hate having it hanging round.
Oh no Calista :shock:
.........I love having my Christmas trees up and keep them up for as long as i can :lol2:
I like to make Christmas last as long as possible
Unlike hubby who is a bit of a Scrooge at Christmas..bah humbug!!
Quote by heandtr
Our's goes up on xmas eve and comes down the day after boxing day .... hate having it hanging round.
Oh no Calista :shock:
.........I love having my Christmas trees up and keep them up for as long as i can :lol2:
I like to make Christmas last as long as possible
Unlike hubby who is a bit of a Scrooge at Christmas..bah humbug!!
Problem is that we have 27 birthdays in December in the family and it's unfair to those when xmas takes over, hubby doesn't get involved as he was raised/has a very strict religious family who don't celebrate xmas and then my Nan died on xmas eve last year ...
All in all xmas is not the happiest time of the year for us ....
I'm not so much a scrooge i just hate the fact that it is commercialised has lost it's meaning and turns even the sanest of people into raving lunatics
Worst is xmas shopping ..... what is it about xmas shopping that turns people into arrogant, pathetic, ill-mannered individuals? Well - I have a long standing Christmas tradition where my Christmas Trees must be stolen by a friend from a local estate.
As the tree is untreated most of the needles fall off bringing it in through the door - so its best to only keep it up for a few days.
This ensures that I have a very ugly bald tree - which actaully costs me more in pints down the pub than it would just going and buying a nice tree. But some Christmas Traditions just need to be kept going. I usually decorate it on Christmas eve.
As the tree is untreated most of the needles fall off bringing it in through the door - so its best to only keep it up for a few days.
This ensures that I have a very ugly bald tree - which actaully costs me more in pints down the pub than it would just going and buying a nice tree. But some Christmas Traditions just need to be kept going. I usually decorate it on Christmas eve.
Quote by Calista
Our's goes up on xmas eve and comes down the day after boxing day .... hate having it hanging round.
Oh no Calista :shock:
.........I love having my Christmas trees up and keep them up for as long as i can :lol2:
I like to make Christmas last as long as possible
Unlike hubby who is a bit of a Scrooge at Christmas..bah humbug!!
Problem is that we have 27 birthdays in December in the family and it's unfair to those when xmas takes over, hubby doesn't get involved as he was raised/has a very strict religious family who don't celebrate xmas and then my Nan died on xmas eve last year ...
All in all xmas is not the happiest time of the year for us ....
I'm not so much a scrooge i just hate the fact that it is commercialised has lost it's meaning and turns even the sanest of people into raving lunatics
Worst is xmas shopping ..... what is it about xmas shopping that turns people into arrogant, pathetic, ill-mannered individuals?I agree with you that it is far too commercialised.....but it has not lost its meaning for me and my children.
I understand from what you have said that Christmas is not a good time for you, and in your circumstances I would find it hard to enjoy Christmas...
But personally we have no birthdays to remember and December is simply Christmas month for us!!!!!...and we thoroughly enjoy it!.....
Heres hoping nothing will change that for us!!!!
Helen..
:Quote by KitKat
confined to the upstairs with their stockings. go through all the stuff in their stockings with us.
Well thats it i'm going to confine my partner to upstairs with her stockings!! Then i'm going to go through the contents of her stockings!!! Excellent idea ;)
Personally i won't be having a Christmas tree or anything at my main house
I assume at my partners house such things will be in evidence due to the saucepans
If decorations have to go up, i like it to happen on Christmas Eve and go down at midnight 26th/27th December, that way i feel the spirit of Christmas is maintained. Lets face it we are in a society where for a lot of people religion means less and less through the ages, and religious people would not celebrate Christmas in the commercial way that is perpertrated by all people in the retail trade and associated industries.
That said in order not to continue my mantle as most hated, anti parent / kid member of Swinging Heaven i'd like to say that whenever you are happy to put up your decorations is up to you and if you get excited by it all, then why not make it last as long as possible. Have fun!!!
By the way me and my partner had our first holiday together in October 2003 whilst walking through a Devonshire town we saw a house complete with Christmas decorations, not just a small display but the full monty with oversize inflatable santas, lights etc!!!
The local paper these week had a letter from a resident complaining that his first Carol singers arrived on the 23rd of October, don't you just love the letters page of your local rag!
Happy Christmas Daz and Lou
Orgasminator
The "standard" for puting up and taking down Christmas decorations is the 12 Days of Christmas.
The decorations, tree etc. should go up on 12th night, 12th December and come down on the 12th night after Christmas, 5th January.
It is considered very bad luck to display Christmas decorations outside of this period.
Your not the only one with there tree up, my friend hasnt got her tree up but has all her lights up both inside and out 
and has had then up for about 2weeks now. Personally Mine goes up 12days before and comes down 12 days later which is 6th january (my birthday ).
I think if you have children though end of november is fine
and has had then up for about 2weeks now. Personally Mine goes up 12days before and comes down 12 days later which is 6th january (my birthday ).I think if you have children though end of november is fine
In September - SEPTEMBER! - at M&S I saw little bags of chocolate Santa coins on sale at one of those "buzz" points - where they rely on you picking stuff up on final impulse while in the queue at check-out.
Yet for all the cashing in I love it - and I am one of the heroic* folk who will be working on Christmas Day!
*Because I'm a Fireman - God I wish the uniform wasn't so tight around my rippling,muscular six pack and my Levi-Jeans-Ad tight sexy butt.
(**..actually..I'm lying.)
Yet for all the cashing in I love it - and I am one of the heroic* folk who will be working on Christmas Day!
*Because I'm a Fireman - God I wish the uniform wasn't so tight around my rippling,muscular six pack and my Levi-Jeans-Ad tight sexy butt.
(**..actually..I'm lying.)
Quote by Flirty Fruitcake
In September - SEPTEMBER! - at M&S I saw little bags of chocolate Santa coins on sale at one of those "buzz" points - where they rely on you picking stuff up on final impulse while in the queue at check-out.
Yet for all the cashing in I love it - and I am one of the heroic* folk who will be working on Christmas Day!
*Because I'm a Fireman - God I wish the uniform wasn't so tight around my rippling,muscular six pack and my Levi-Jeans-Ad tight sexy butt.
(**..actually..I'm lying.)
aha, but which bits are you lying about, flirty??? not all of it, surely?? lol
Orgasminator
Being an atheist I don't do Christmas at all. I do however follow the old Pagan festival of having a midwinter 'Blowfest'. I lay in a stock of booze, ciggies and food.
After a midday dinner on the 25th of December I retire early to bed with the female of my choice, accompanied by various nibbles and liquid refreshments, and spend the rest of the day enjoying myself. Sod the old films and the various quasi religious progammes and everything else. After a day of debauchary I wake up the following morning, and replenish the nibbles and booze and after a shower return to bed for another day of trying out all the various positions in the Karma Sutra.
You celebrate Christmas if you wish, I prefer my mid-winter Blowfest.. lol.
Harry0
Casanova and Drunk of this Parish. :twisted:
After a midday dinner on the 25th of December I retire early to bed with the female of my choice, accompanied by various nibbles and liquid refreshments, and spend the rest of the day enjoying myself. Sod the old films and the various quasi religious progammes and everything else. After a day of debauchary I wake up the following morning, and replenish the nibbles and booze and after a shower return to bed for another day of trying out all the various positions in the Karma Sutra.
You celebrate Christmas if you wish, I prefer my mid-winter Blowfest.. lol.
Harry0
Casanova and Drunk of this Parish. :twisted:
