Way too much work to just put the tree up for a few days... I'm hoping to get mine up this weekend but might have to limit the ornaments that I put on it; our crazy 1 year old cat is no doubt going to look on the thing as a playground and I have a lot of fragile ornaments that I've collected over the years that I would hate to lose. The good news is, I also have a lot of more or less indestructible ornaments too...