When should christmas tree go up.

fob

merlin said:

Never had one, for two reasons....Firstly, and most importantly, I don't believe in it, secondly, I'm not from a Christian family. My wife was born in Russia where they traditionally have New Years' Trees, so we have one of those instead. 

Goes up on the 28th, comes down on the 3rd. 

@merlin is it still a 'Christmas' tree as we'd think of them - spruce/fir?

merlin

fob said:

@merlin is it still a 'Christmas' tree as we'd think of them - spruce/fir?

Same horse, different jockey....

speshul91

next year 

Octafish

Xmas tress are overrated, can't be bothered myself. Kids only want them up because it symbolises an impending haul of consumer goods. Luckily my daughter is at the age where it would be on it's side within 5 mins so I'm not bothering.

Octafish

Nitefly said:

Bloke across the street from us has just installed his bloody blue and white flashing LED strings across all his shrubbery.  Our Maud also saw him testing one of those projected-image thingies yesterday.

God i hate that tacky crap. There's one down the road from me with crappy illuminted reindeers and other shite pointlessly burning off the Earth's resources, hopefully some kids will nick it or smash it

TheMarlin

I hate xmas.  Its a massive expensive pain in the rear.

Dominic

ICBM said:

RandallFlagg said:

I love how miserable we all are about Christmas

I like Christmas.

However, I reserve the right to not like it when it's not actually at least close to Christmas, when it's over-commercialised, when it involves unwelcome visits from relatives, when post-Christmas sales start before Christmas, and most of the other crap that seems to go with it now.

But that's because I'm now officially a grumpy old man.

And quite right you are too
It's become ridiculous ...........the Retail festival of Christmas ........can't wait to get over to the Caribbean or Thailand /Vietnam and have a proper holiday at the most boring time of year

Sporky

ICBM said:

RandallFlagg said:

I love how miserable we all are about Christmas

I like Christmas.

However, I reserve the right to not like it when it's not actually at least close to Christmas, when it's over-commercialised, when it involves unwelcome visits from relatives, when post-Christmas sales start before Christmas, and most of the other crap that seems to go with it now.

But that's because I'm now officially a grumpy old man.

ICBM for [insert governmental post].

WezV

i'm not even sorry

Boromedic

As early as possible you miserable buggers

bingefeller

1st December. Bye. 

frank1985

According to the Morrisons near me, late August.