When do you start decorating for Christmas?

**dealrocker** · 12-04-2009, 07:29 AM

When Halloween comes down the Christmas decorations begin to go up. I started decoration when the month of November has started. It's so nice to see decor inside the home, it reminds me of the spirit of Christmas although it's just 2 months away before Christmas yet. Curious to know how early do you start decorating for Christmas?

**IdunBenhad** · 12-04-2009, 10:08 AM

Last year!!!

**Larry Hazeltine** · 12-04-2009, 02:11 PM

November 1st I start taking down Halloween decorations and start putting up Christmas lights. Those stay up until the first warm day of the new year (which in Colorado usually isn't in January or February).

**kfindley** · 12-05-2009, 11:38 PM

We started the da after halloween. due to the fact i hate working in the cold weather. And being my first year with blinky flashy, i wanted to make sure i had time to fix things if i had trouble

**kostyun** · 12-05-2009, 11:47 PM

I've given up on waiting for halloween to pass - I now shoot for mid-October! I am FINALLY just finishing up the last pieces now.

**zaker** · 12-06-2009, 11:18 AM

After Halloween stuff comes down, first week of November. Sometimes it still a little warm here in Northeast PA. I've waited longer, but it isn't fun setting up in the cold/snow.

tom

**BillAd** · 12-06-2009, 11:48 AM

The week before Halloween we put the lights in some of the larger trees near the street. Halloween night we turn on just the blue lights because my street is quite dark and this helps shed a bit of light for the little kids yet still leaves a kind of spooky look. Then every weekend putting up the display through Thanksgiving.

**holtm** · 12-06-2009, 06:21 PM

I try not to put anything out until Veterans Day (Nov. 11) I have that day off work and the kids are in school so I get to spend the day in the yard by myself. Usually the Saturday before I'm curious how something is going to look and will put some of the newer parts of the display out. This gives me a little time buffer in case something doesn't assemble as planned.

**Griz'Wolz'** · 12-06-2009, 06:25 PM

I start dreaming as soon as I get the current year working...
I do not put anything up until the day after Thanksgiving but that makes for a long weekend. Prior to that weekend I have all my stuff tested and tuned so all we have to do is plug and play...okay, maybe not immediately..

**jpb** · 12-07-2009, 04:48 AM

I start attaching things to the house in the last week of November. By then I will already have all my sequencing finished and had the show running for at least a week with no controllers on the end to make sure that I have a stable show.

All the cabling for the lights that go on the roof stays in place all year. During setup I go onto the roof and remove certain tiles that I have marked and can reach in and grab power and Cat5 without entering the roof cavity. Down under we are setting up at the start of summer and the air temp can be 30+deg celcius and in the roof lots hotter.

Pack up is January the 1st and by then it can be nudging 40, so again, I just unplug the lights and just drop the ends back into the roof cavity ready for 11 months time.

Jon