available for around 250 here are a few tips setting up and taking down both setting up and taking down a christmas tree are associated with specific dates in fact the holiday fun and excitement begins with decorating a pinefir tree a tradition that most people look forward to every year treetoppers can be of any form but the most common ones include a star angels and finials while other lesser ones include ribbon bows santa clauses christian crosses and christmas owls among others traditionally christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until christmas eve and then removed on the day after twelfth night january 5 always keep the soil moist 5 do not hang the ornaments only on the branch tips