Leonie2
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Christmas treesI went to Sainsburys today and noticed they have christmas trees outside. I'm not sure I could buy a tree from a supermarket, it kind of takes all the fun out of it. We get a real tree every year, usually from the farm shop or a local farmer. It's a big family day for us, OH usually takes the two sprogs in his van and they get to choose which one they want. It's never the biggest one (too big and it wouldn't fit in the house!), but it's always the most perfectly formed one (in their eyes anyway). It sits outside in a bucket of water overnight, S and J spend the day looking through the window at it, you can see the excitement on their little faces. Then on the Sunday we bring the tree in and spend a good couple of hours sorting through all the decorations and hanging them on the tree. One of the children get to put the angel on the top. We eat christmas cake, drink port/sherry and generally have a relaxing day at home. Most years the grandparents join us and it's a lovely day just chilling and all being together, in some ways it's better than christmas day itself.
Do you have a christmas tree, when do you put it up, where do you get it from, who decorates it?
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Haize
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Hohum, quoting me earlier, hope nobody minds...
We bought a tree from Homebase a few years ago (with roots). It was 3 times the price of the same sized chopped ones, but this will be our 4th Christmas with it, and it has been steadily growing. It was tiny to start with, and travelled 120 miles each way with us to and from parents' each year! Hopefully it won't need to do that this year 
I've no idea when we should bring it in to the house. Maybe I'll do it on Monday (11th). It is a shame to have such a nice thing not for very long, but obviously if it were around too much, it wouldn't be special any more.
I have a "hat box" with snowflakey paper that currently holds my small selection of decorations. We may need a few more this year though!
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Kathy
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Not sure if I'll have room for a tree this year...............
Sounds like you have a lovely time Leonie, I fancy the idea of having a tree in a pot that I can keep. 
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Cabbagepatch
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For years I had a "real" tree from a local farmer friend's wood. The one that stays firmly in our memories is the one that, after trekking through a mile of mud and choosing the one we would like, cutting it down, getting it into the trailer, bringing it home, getting it out of the trailer and bringing it into the house.....................aforementioned farmer's dog decided he needed to relieve himself on it..........
The tree went back outside, hosed down, brought back inside and adorned with the deccies.
The smell of dogwiddle lasted for days. Most attractive.
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Aqui
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We have a little (about three or four foot) fake tree. But it's not one of those nasty toilet-brush ones - it looks like a real tree (should at the cost!) We put it up the weekend before Christmas - which means this coming weekend this year as christmas is on a monday.
We - T and I - put on our christmas cd (ok - so it's a south park christmas cd, but that's just us!) sing along to it, with our santa hats on and decorate it.
We don't have a star or angel on top - as a pagan I should have a sun. May have to make one!
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muntjac
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live from our fields on the estate every year for me .i get to pick mine firstafore the guys cut em down they do ours when the rest are sold and gone then im going with jade . the bigguns cant be bothered anymore ... quad bike n her in her trailer seat dogs n all , oh what joy hahha
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Kathy
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Bumping this thread up, it's that time again!
Who's got the tree up, who leaves it till Christmas Eve (traditional). Anybody got any photos?
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mc55
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no room for a tree this year (the house is bursting at the seems whilst we wait for the building work to start). Had thought about putting a potted tree outside in the front garden, but OH thinks it'll get nicked (we live in the city centre)
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Jojo
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I put my tree up a week before christmas, not a real one,but it's not all colour coordinated either,it has old orniments from when my mother was a child some of when I was,and stuff the children made when they were small,it's just like putting up memorys   
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Kathy
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My tree's like that as well Jojo, I still haven't unearthed it from wherever it was put when we moved so it'll probably go up the last week too 
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Bovey Belle
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We usually go and choose one from the Christmas Tree Farm at Salem, but the selection there last year was very poor and the prices upped, so we shan't be going back there. We like a fresh tree though. The kids all decorate it and I don't get a look-in. My job is taking the decorations OFF on 12th night.
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lloyd
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Ours will be going up any night now. We were going to put the plastic tree up tonight but it looked so bl**dy awful that I chucked it in Maureen to go to my workplace as an additional addornment for there. Will buy a real tree tomorrow. That helps the economy, and after gets either burned or composted which is all good either way.
And it's traditional.
Mind you, so is mounting burning candles on the tree. 
Quick, call Health and Safety...Risk assessments required!!!! 
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TheGirlsMum
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We will buy our tree when OH gets back from Portsmouth and then the girls will decorate it next weekend
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lloyd
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Ok bought ours today, going up tomorrow night....
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