We usually drive to the mountains and go to a choose-and-cut lot to get our tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving. During that next week we put up the lights and decorations. Christmas is my family's favorite time of the year and we really like having the house decorated for Christmas. If I've got to drag out all of the Christmas decorations and put them up, I want them up for more than two weeks. I like keeping them up, at least inside the house, until Epiphany after the 12 Days of Christmas...though I do feel kind of weird since most people seem to take them down before that around here. We generally try to keep things classy and Christ-focused rather than commercial at Christmas. We don't do the lawn inflatables and Santa Clauses everywhere...we tend to stick to greenery and lights and a nativity.