How to Time Your Christmas Decorating

Series Summary

Decorating for Christmas doesn't have to be hard, and can actually be fun. Like many things the level of ease and fun in decorating of Christmas is directly proportional to how well you know how to do it. Learning how to put up Christmas decorations is easy with the right instructions. If you would like to learn how to decorate your house for Christmas and for the Holiday Season you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free video series, learn how to decorate for Christmas and the Holiday Season from expert Melissa Schenk. Melissa will show you how to balance Christmas decorations, how to avoid mixing Christmas decorations, how to use generic winter decorations, how to decorate for Christmas using focal points, how to use Christmas trees to decorate for Christmas, how to use permanent fixtures for Christmas, how to use stockings to decorate for Christmas, how to use real plants to decorate for Christmas, and how to be original when decorating for Christmas.

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to be talking about how to decorate for Christmas. In our first clip, let's talk about the timing of putting up our holiday decorations. Now, at a kit wise, we would say normally not to put up your Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving holiday. So not before Halloween, not before Thanksgiving, usually after Thanksgiving and taking Christmas decorations down no later than January 6th. Many people take them down right around New Years or at the tail end of December but usually around New Year's and no later than January 6th. So not before Thanksgiving even though I know stores put up a lot of their holiday decorations a bit earlier. We've seen them in stores even as early as Halloween now. But for you and your family and your home, it is recommended not to put them up any earlier than Thanksgiving. Most people end of November, the majority of people beginning of December. "