December 1st: Holiday Question of the Day!

Well for me the Christmas kickoff is shopping early morning on Black Friday...For my son it's putting up the tree and all the outside decorations (which we'll be doing today after I get home)...
 
Putting up copius quantities of outdoor lighting starts our season. We've had an unusually mild Nov so there are obscene amounts of lights up and down the street! My dh completely lit up our little oak tree out back too (so I could look out the window and see the lights while chained to the sink doing dishes...).
Then there is the music...
Next, the tree..., and then cookies...., then eating the cookies....
 
I usually pull out Christmas decorations. I often buy new ones during Black Friday. Get the girl's Christmas ornaments for the year (a family tradition of mine of getting Christmas ornaments from Hallmark every year.) I also usually listen to a few tunes and plot out what I am going to watch over December. Nutcracker and White Christmas are a must!
 
My girls birthday is tomorrow and after the party on Saturday I will be so much more in the mood to decorate. I am so thankful they were born on the 2nd versus towards the end of the month. I like to have them have a seperate time for them.
As they get older though it is starting to not matter as much.
 
For me, it's putting up the tree and decorations as soon as I can after Thanksgiving. I just can't get into shopping or anything else until the tree is up and the house looks like Christmas. :)
 
Definitely when the tree goes up for us. We aren't putting it up until this weekend (the 5th) so, I am not quite in the "spirit" yet but, am starting my December Daily album today so, it is making it really hard for me to want to work on it! :p

But, I can't put the tree up any sooner as I have to wait for everyone to be around. It's gotten harder and harder to put our tree up as a family now that the kids are older and working, etc. I don't like it up for more than about 3 weeks anyway. I feel like it clutters my house (darn OCD) so it comes down immediately on the morning of the 26th. :p

This year I plan to do alot of baking and crafts with our youngest daughter (12yo) so I think I will have lots more holiday spirit as the days progress. It is finally cooling off a bit here in South Texas too so, that helps.
 
Every year, for as long as I can remember, my family and I go pick out a tree, bring it home and put it up together. We always have it up by the first weekend in December. We decorate it and watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation while putting it up. It goes this way every year.
 
growing up, we never started decorating until the 10th (or later) of December, since my brother's birthday is the 9th. We will probably start here the weekend of the 12th (since we are going out of town this weekend to start/finish our Christmas shopping). We have our Thanksgiving in October, so it's too early to start decorating then. lol And we always do a real tree, and they don't last long around my children. hehehe
 
Our holiday season will start this weekend, for DD's birthday. We usually put the tree up the weekend just after her birthday (depending what day of the week her birthday falls on, but this year the tree goes up the day before her birthday or it would be very late going up the next weekend), then everything is decorated for Christmas at her birthday party! Then the Christmas music starts (although DH tries to play Christmas music from early November :thumbdown:). In the few days before Christmas it's a flurry of baking here, and then we relax and enjoy your holiday (as much as the kids will allow :blink:!)
 
Christmas music usually puts me in the mood for the season. After that, I start thinking about the presents to buy/make. Decorating usually comes last - especially this year after I found the ornament box broken on the garage floor - I'm afraid to look inside to see what I've lost....
 
Definitely putting the tree up and starting our shopping. This year we had our tree up before turkey day. :)
I love Christmas but it is so stressful too so usually I can't wait for Christmas to come but be over quickly!
 
I usually start by decorating- this year I started by shopping and we started a new "tradition" at our house- the countdown calendar. :)
 
December 1 the outside lights go on! We're still in phase 2 of putting them up and DH will probably still be adding to them for another week or so, LOL But they are on!
 
Well for the past 14 years, we get together with my best friend from high school and her family. The first Sunday after Thanksgiving, we all meet and go cut down our Christmas tree. They just moved 6 hours away so this is the first year that we have not had them with us to cut down our tree. In fact, we have yet to cut it down ... sigh ... :)
 
I start listening to Christmas music & doing my Christmas shopping in late October/early November. :) We decorate the day after Thanksgiving. Then, we kick off December with an advent calendar or two. :)
 
jenn7 said:
Putting up the tree during Thanksgiving weekend. But other than that, I am feeling pretty scroogelike this year. Not sure why, but maybe I'll have to try one of these things to snap out of it. :)
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I'm feeling pretty scroogelike myself this year, and really hoping I snap out of it as well!!

The tree went up today though, and I found a few decorations to start with.

I think it was easier when the kids were small and I didn't work outside the home.
 
I guess I would have to say we start by dragging out the decorations....i usually start the first or second week of november. I really love the whole "season" of Christmas, not just the day so I like to drag it out as long as possible. Oh and I love that thrill of the first Christmas song on the radio. I am a christmas music NUT! LOL
 
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