I am another that peaks too early when it comes to christmas. Our tree goes up when Santa comes to town for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent !! That happens around the first/2nd weekend in November. It is a tradition for a lot of Adelaide families for the tree to go up that day. But by the time Christmas rolls around the tree has been up for around 7 weeks and I am sick of looking at it, so it is usually pulled down on Dec 27th.
It also doesn't help that is is 8ft tall and really wide, so it has to sit in the kids play area. Last year I was in Melbourne for the Adelaide Christmas Pagent. When I spoke to mum (who was baby sitting my kids back in Adelaide) later that day, I asked her if she can put my tree up LOL. She didn't oblige.
We put our tree up religiously on 1st December EVERY year without fail!! I absolutely adore this time of year. We always put the tree up as a family (DH and I go to Mum and Dad's for theirs and vice versa) and we toast with champagne when the star goes on top. Last year we even had my brother on Skype (he lives interstate) so he could join in on the festivities.
In 2006 my Pop passed away on 28th November and we still put the tree up on the 1st December!
Last edited by Aimz; October 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 PM.
our tree will go up early December - depending on when DH can be home to help me put it up (it's a bit like Kat's - two person job to get it up!)
other stuff will go up earlier though - i'm ready NOW to start putting up all my new pretties!
my niece came out last year to help decorate the tree (i'd just been through EPU - not that she knew that!) - this year she has already said she's coming out to decorate the tree so that "Aunty BG and Gremlin can rest properly!" - she's very cute!
Our tree goes up around the 24th of Nov so that we get to enjoy it for the full mth.... So excited this year as it will be our only christmas wher I am living in the same state as my family and this is the 1st that we get use a REAL tree yipppppppy ( I guess there are good things about living down sth after all )
Santa is real in our house, the boys write a letter to Santa (with help from Mummy), we then leave it by Santa`s plate of biscuits and a cup of milk by the Christmas Tree, then we leave food and water out for the reindeers.
Our tree goes up after DH`s Birthday, so anytime after 7th December.
Oh yes, I even have the "I Believe in Santa" hat that I wear every year .
DD (10) seems to be on the cusp of working it out, she asks me and I've answered (very vaguely) about the magic of Christmas and how I believe in the "magic of Father Christmas"...*sigh* She's taken to keeping the letters they leave and comparing handwriting samples so it's getting harder and harder every year! LOL This year Santa's gonna be towing his trailer half way across Australia in the week before Christmas so there might be some secrecy issues there! LOL
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this year as it will be our only christmas wher I am living in the same state as my family and this is the 1st that we get use a REAL tree yipppppppy ( I guess there are good things about living down sth after all 
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