Someone put up a Christmas tree already!!

LizT

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

Micky Dolenz

well, it is closer to next Christmas then last Christmas to be fair.

ronaneire

At least they're not taking down the one from last Christmas.

wobblyknees

lizt wrote: »

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

I'm more interested in how you managed to scale the building to have a look in the window!

LizT

The block I'm in has a block beside it, so it forms kind of an l shape with a space in the middle, so I can see EVERYTHING they do...

aine-maire

lizt wrote: »

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

Me neither. In fact I don't believe it.

LizT

aine-maire wrote: »

Me neither. In fact I don't believe it.

Well, I'm wounded. Someone on the internet doesn't believe me. I think if I was going to lie, I'd make it a bit less mundane.

tommy21

Pics or GTFO!

LizT

tommy21 wrote: »

Pics or GTFO!

Sorry, flying to America tomorrow morning at nine. I'll ask my sister to get a picture of it and see if she can put it somewhere where I can link to.

Sharpshooter

lizt wrote: »

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

Maybe someone in the family won't be around to see Christmas this year.

I know a family that had Christmas in August one year. Tree, pressies the Christmas dinner, the lot, because the dad wouldn't live to see it in December.

I thought it was a lovely thing to do.:)

LizT

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Maybe someone in the family won't be around to see Christmas this year.

I know a family that had Christmas in August one year. Tree, pressies the Christmas dinner, the lot, because the dad wouldn't live to see it in December.

I thought it was a lovely thing to do.:)

Nice story. It's a good idea because people can find Christmas the toughest time of the year, so at least they could look back on their last Christmas together as truly special

D4RK ONION

Any chance of some pics? We love our Christmas Trees in here

Riskymove

I had the christmas tree put up in my house one summer as a prank by a relative staying there....I was on holidays at the time and returned to find it up!!

aine-maire

lizt wrote: »

Well, I'm wounded. Someone on the internet doesn't believe me. I think if I was going to lie, I'd make it a bit less mundane.

Haha, I'm sorry... Maybe you're just fabricating this to keep the Christmas forum alive in July

D4RK ONION

The forum is asleep! It's not dead. It's more like an extended hibernation

Sam Kade

lizt wrote: »

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

My neighbour living on his own in a big house, takes his tree after christmas fully decorated with lights and puts it in the spare room. All he has to do at christmas is bring it to the hall and plug in the lights.

Sharpshooter

D4RK ONION wrote: »

The forum is asleep! It's not dead. It's more like an extended hibernation

It's a bit like The Terminator.:pac:

"I'll Be Back". :cool:

aine-maire

D4RK ONION wrote: »

The forum is asleep! It's not dead. It's more like an extended hibernation

Haha, I take it back, I believe you now... It was clearly d4rk onion's tree you saw

Dude111

I guess they want Santa to recognise thier house on christmas

thenightrider

They might just have the tree up from the weekend :rolleyes:

QVC do a Christmas in July series every year, selling Christmas stuff. Maybe they splashed out.

brigadoon

Sam Kade wrote: »

My neighbour living on his own in a big house, takes his tree after christmas fully decorated with lights and puts it in the spare room. All he has to do at christmas is bring it to the hall and plug in the lights.

My grandmother only used one of the front rooms of her house at Christmas. So she used to just throw dust sheets over everything, including the tree, and lock the door.
My neighbour (who lives in the same style 1 bedroom, 2 boxroom, kitchen plus living/dining room bungalow as me) never takes his tree or decorations down.
He just doesn't switch the lights on.
I was talking to a guy who happened to have worked going door to door for airtricity in my area and he started telling me all about this old guy with his tree still up in June and I was like "Thats my neighbour!"

YumDeiseMum

lizt wrote: »

Someone in the apartment next to me put up a Christmas tree already! Can't believe it!

I thought it was bad where I live, there's 1 house every year and they take down the Halloween decorations on November 1st and put the Christmas decorations straight out!

Dude111

It will be amazing if the tree IS STILL GOOD come christmas!

eimearcmh

Our tree will go up in December. I think its more special (is that bad grammer..more special, specialer, specialist?? Its Late!) if the tree is up for just the few weeks in Dec/Jan.

Sharpshooter

I think it doesn't matter when the Christmas Tree goes up.
It depends on why a person puts it up and their reasons are their own.

There are no hard and fast rules, put it up and enjoy it whenever you feel the time is right.:)

McFry

I had a laugh to myself last week as I arrived in my student accommodation for the first time to find a Christmas tree inside the front door. I presume its been there since last Christmas and it will be there long after this one, its artificial of course...we students do have some standards of living!

candy-gal1

the earlier the better i say!

angel_wings

I put my tree up on the nite of the Late Late Toy Show which is the last Fri in Nov. Im always the 1st of my neighbours to do it but within a week of mine going up theres usually 4 or 5 that have followed suit This year it will be the 26th Nov.
Our routine is have an early dinner and then myself and the kids spend 2 hours putting up the tree while the hubby pretends hes not interested but constantly comes into the room and tells me to spread the lights out more or put more tinsil on then we get into our pjs and sit down to watch the Toy Show. Even if the Toy Show wasnt to be on the last fri of Nov, christmas will always start in our house on this day as last year my baby girl died on the 29th Nov (5 days old) so we want to involve her in Christmas by having our Christmas tree up every year for her anniversary.

anthonymax

angel_wings wrote: »

I put my tree up on the nite of the Late Late Toy Show which is the last Fri in Nov. Im always the 1st of my neighbours to do it but within a week of mine going up theres usually 4 or 5 that have followed suit This year it will be the 26th Nov.
Our routine is have an early dinner and then myself and the kids spend 2 hours putting up the tree while the hubby pretends hes not interested but constantly comes into the room and tells me to spread the lights out more or put more tinsil on then we get into our pjs and sit down to watch the Toy Show. Even if the Toy Show wasnt to be on the last fri of Nov, christmas will always start in our house on this day as last year my baby girl died on the 29th Nov (5 days old) so we want to involve her in Christmas by having our Christmas tree up every year for her anniversary.

:(:( That's so sad angelwings. But what a lovely idea.

The Lovely Muffin

The Clarion Hotel (the one not to far from Liffey Valley I think?) has a Santa Claus on the roof.