In our country we have this thing called sinterklaas and we can't have the tree up before that time at least that's what I think with a lot of others. You probably won't have any idea what sinterklaas is, but it's quite funny. Sinterklaas is similar to santa claus in that he gives presents to kids, but Sinterklaas has a horse and rides on the roofs and his helpers are zwarte pieten. Here are some pics.
His birthday is the 5th of december and at that night the kids get there packages. In the weeks before that they can also put their shoes near the chimney similar to the socks thing with santa claus. Ow and the zwarte pieten have big bags with candy!