When To Put Up Christmas Decorations

After you’ve made it through the endless driving and gorging on turkey for Thanksgiving, it’ll be time to focus on the next major holiday: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Festivus, etc… It’s pretty much a given that you take down the Thanksgiving decorations soon after the holiday, but exactly when do you put up the next holiday?

This is actually a complex question. I know people who have their Christmas tree up by Thanksgiving night. I actually have no problem with this. Sure, it’s a little early, but for many families it has become a tradition and it’s one of the few times you have all the family together in one place.

Christmas trees aside, I like to wait at least until the beginning of December to put up the Christmas decorations inside the home. It still feels like fall in November and often there isn’t even any snow on the ground to give it a good ambiance. I mean, who doesn’t like looking out the window at the newly fallen snow lit only by the soft glow of Christmas lights?

Once December hits, the inside is fair game for decorations, so go wild. Bring out the Christmas villages, fake snow and that Hummel figurine you won from the office pool.

Then there are the outdoor decorations. This gets a little more tricky. You don’t want to wait too long and end up putting everything up in a blizzard or trudging through two feet of snow, but you also don’t want to be ?those neighbors? who get everything out way too early.

My thoughts on outdoor decorations is that it’s OK to wait a while because you can keep them up for a couple of weeks past Christmas. I like to wait until mid-December to put out the outside decorations, but this is dependent on the weather. If it looks like an early winter, then I have no problem putting them out a little early. Safety is the biggest concern and no one wants to slip and slide on a snowy roof.

A final note on the whole inflatable decorations phenom. Please, just don’t go overboard. It’s fine to have one or two on your yard, but don’t make it look like Wal-Mart exploded on your lawn.

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