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When does your family decorate for Christmas, before thanksgiving or after?

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dustynine
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Marked as Best! November 16, 2009 05:35 PM
Our family puts up the outdoor lights on the most convenient day prior to December - usually before it snows - and then we decorate indoors on December 1st. We then drive out to buy a real tree on the Saturday before Christmas so that it stays fresh right up until January 1st.

It's all about tradition, of course.
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kh_gore
kh_gore
November 16, 2009 11:02 AM
My family usually decorate for Christmas right after Thanksgiving. Why have Christmas decorations during Thanksgiving for? It doesn't feel like Thanksgiving if there is already Christmas decorations there. Celebrate one holiday at a time. The whole family is there right after Thanksgiving so at least they are already there to help out and get ready for Christmas making it even more special.
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amybrowne2
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November 16, 2009 01:38 PM
I usually decorate the day after Thanksgiving, but i am way excited about it this year so I am not sure I can wait. I have already taken the Santa suit to my daughter for the baby who was born last Thursday! My own kids will make sure I wait and truthfully since my grand kids often come I need to hold off decorating.

Although it might be funny to see my two year old grandson get excited this year, but my 5 yr old grand daughter would be asking if its time for Santa for weeks to my daughter.
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tealmyster
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November 16, 2009 07:20 PM
We normally do it on the 1st of December at my grandparents so I head over there to help and at my home with my parents we put the treet up 2 weeks before Christmas. We have 6 pets who like to climb the tree, knock it over, and hide ornaments so we feel 2 weeks is just enough before they get too creative. ;)
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gatewayy
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November 16, 2009 07:59 PM
We decorate after Thanksgiving in my family.
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thebandit
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November 17, 2009 11:05 PM
Normally, my family decorates for Christmas after Thanksgiving -- usually, the first weekend in December. It's a daylong process, taking the stuff out of storage, putting up garlands and wreaths, putting up the Christmas tree and getting the ornaments ready. The whole family would help.

But for some reason, this year my mother just started last week. Thanksgiving hadn't even started yet. I have no idea why. It might be an empty nest thing, or just a function of how much free time she has left. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we moved recently -- it isn't our first holiday season in the new house, but you never know. Whatever the reason, it'll be very weird going home for Thanksgiving and seeing the house already decorated.
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samid
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November 21, 2009 04:59 PM
The Friday after Thanksgiving is THE day to decorate for Christmas. Most people are still off for Thanksgiving on that following Friday and, with leftovers galore to snack on all day and the family still in town for the holiday, it's the perfect time to break out the boxes and carefully go through them, testing each string of lights and inspecting each ornament, batting stories back and forth about how this ornament came to the collection or any other holiday memories they may spur on. It has always been done this way in my family and I don't see myself changing things.
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