Ours goes up the weekend before Christmas, unless Christmas is on a Monday; then it goes up two weekends before. We get sick of looking at it if it's there for more than two and a half weeks. We usually take it down Jan 6th, for the feast of the Epiphany/ Three Kings Day. Then again, we're the type of people who don't think the Christmas season starts until Black Friday, and that it's unacceptable to even start playing Christmas music until the 15th. We tend to keep it pretty traditional, mostly with ornaments that came from my parents' childhoods, as well as mine, along with some that they bought when they got hitched.

Always a fake tree too, because we did the whole real tree once, and the pine needles were everywhere. Plus it's a fire hazard, and as much as we enjoy irony, I don't think anyone would appreciate the thing providing us with joy also burning all of our crap to the ground.

Pics to come, eventually.