Monday, November 9, 2026

When Do You Decorate?

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According to several prominent studies - this is when people decorate for Christmas -

10% decorate before November 1

16% decorate between November 1 and November 15

27% to 34% decorate before Thanksgiving

25% to 40% decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving

18% to 23% wait until December

7% do not decorate at all

1% leave their decorations up all year round

I decorate the week of Thanksgiving. I don't host, so I have the whole week free. I think the 1% leaving it up all year is bizarre. I remember reading in The Washington Post that Evangeline Bruce, wife of legendary diplomat David K. E. Bruce and the queen of Georgetown society, kept a fully decorated, pristine Christmas tree permanently mounted on a wheeled platform so her staff could effortlessly roll it out for gatherings and whisk it away behind a massive, multi-panel Chinese Coromandel screen the moment the guests departed.

I start decorating 2 weeks from today and can't wait. It takes me about a week. I put up three large trees and they take a day each, a day for outdoors, 2 days for going room by room with smaller Christmas decor, and a day to tweak everything. When do you decorate?






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