We won't this year as we'll be in the UK. I've got really fed up with seeing decorations everywhere from November onward that I tend not to decorate in protest. Taking them down and packing them away is a total pain in the ass as well! Call me Scrooge, I don't care!

When my kids were small and I was a single parent the decorations went up on Christmas Eve. I told the kids that, as they didn't have a father to put them up Santa Claus's fairies came round and put them up. The advantage was that Christmas morning the sitting room was all bright with decorations, fresh and new, and they hadn't got so used to them that they didn't 'see' them on the day.