Christmas Eve if you have young kids. My parents never put any Christmas decorations up in the house, only the lights outside, until after we went to bed on Christmas Eve. Then they would stay up all night and put up a platform with a train set, with houses, cars, street lights, everything that would make a little town, down to little tiny people and the town covered with "snow". The tree would be in the middle of the platform with the train going around it. We continued that tradition with our son and again with my nephew when he lived here. It's a lot of work and it's exhausting, but it's one of the happiest memories of Christmas for me.

As a child, you come down the steps on Christmas morning and suddenly the living room has been transformed while you slept and there were gifts everywhere (there were 5 kids in our family)! To see the tree all lit up and the train running around it and through the little town...it was magical!!! They did all that until my youngest sister no longer believed.

Only one person could have done all that while we slept. SANTA!!

Haha. Well, I'm eager to put it up as soon as I can.
I don't have kids.... I'm only 17.... I'm practically still a kid myself ;)
I love Christmas. And I love (trying to make)/making Christmas good for everyone.

I do my lights right after thanksgiving... but the tree about 15 days before so it will live long enough because I always ahve a real tree

If I try to make a timetable it screws me..so it happens when it happens.. but usuallly the week before..

I put my Christmas tree up on Thanksgiving night and take it down Christmas night. If I didn't think my neighbors would think I was odd, I would leave it up all year long and leave the curtains open to show it off, but then I cant walk around the house in just a tank and knickers, so there is a plus to taking it down. haha I don't put any lights up outside because I live in an apartment but this year I pay put some lights up in the windows.

I love Christmas!

I'm going to move into my sister's place on Saturday... I have to get my tree off of layby... and then, my promise to myself is that I will put up the tree when I finish unpacking all my stuff. However long that takes me will determine when I put it up xD I LOVE CHRISTMAS MORE!

I bought wrapping paper tonight. FINALLY found a store that had it. Its red with silver packages on it and white snowflakes! YAY!!! I am gonna wrap presents this weekend!!!

As long as it is after thanks giving:) Put the tree up one day after christmas. That is just me.