Even before the festivities begin, one seasonal debate returns year after year: when is the right time to start putting up your Christmas decorations and Christmas tree? For some, as soon as ...

In 1846, Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert, put up a Xmas tree. They decorated it with toys, candy, popcorn, and cakes. Once word spread, the popularity of Christmas trees took off.

Her Elkton, Maryland, home was built with lumber cut from a former Rockefeller Center Christmas tree ... discover that the tree they saw on television would soon make up their future house.

"Jessie and I set up [a Christmas tree] and never got a chance to decorate. I didn't have the heart to take it down," dad Neil Heslin says Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at ...