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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?
I put up one tree with heirloom ornaments the weekend after Thanksgiving. More power to you with the all-out decor, I'm kind of exhausted just thinking about it. lol
ReplyDeleteThe weekend before Thanksgiving. 💚🌲💚
ReplyDeleteI give each holiday its due so I wait until after Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI like to let Thanksgiving be its own thing, so I definitely wait until after that. If the weather doesn’t feel right, I’ll wait until closer to Xmas. But we do leave it up until around Valentine’s Day! The winters are long and dark here in upstate NY.
ReplyDeleteThat was Pamela Harriman!
ReplyDeleteI thought so too but Googled it and multiple sources said Evangeline Bruce.
ReplyDeleteI decorate the day after Thanksgiving. I only have one tree, but I have a very large living room with high ceilings. A small or medium size tree looks ridiculous. A ten foot tall tree is a huge undertaking, and I've always had a real tree. Artificial would definitely make my life easier, but I've never been able to embrace an artificial tree. Real trees don't do well when left up too long. I take my tree down on New Year's Day.
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