Why do people put their Xmas trees etc up now then take them down Boxing Day

Why does it matter? Each to their own

I think this isn't helped by adverts for post Christmas sales come on tv & social media on Christmas Day. You hardly hear any Christmas music played after CD & Boxing Day onwards everyone is saying "did you have a nice Christmas?" When it still is Christmas!

I do get confused by how many people need to get clean & tidy. How does a tree stop this?

Exactly, other people have different lives, jobs, commitments, so do things differently.

You have no idea if its even most people who are done with the festivities and have had gifts and eaten all the food etc. I know plenty of families who can't do their Christmas things until January, and ones who do it all in November. People who work, separated parents who do two Christmases, people who's family live away, bereaved people who don't want Christmas on the 25th so do it on a different day, there's a million reasons why people do things earlier or later.

Some on this thread have their idea of what's normal and declare everyone else as being a weirdo, it's pretty ridiculous really.

I take mine down on 27th …chrsitmas is done then ….just want the new year to come….want to get tidy …..love the tree up to Christmas morning….once present are gone it needs to be gone….think a lot of people think like this

But Christmas isn't done for many people then. Plenty have dc who are off school, many have workplaces that close, loads see family & friends at this time etc.

YABU purely because what other people do in their homes is their business , it doesn’t affect you in the slightest .

@Cat1504 not when it comes to taking christmas trees down i'm not, like I said council collection dates are in Jan.

I can't help but see doing Christmas this way as more consumerist and I appreciate that I sound really judgemental saying that.

Personally I've nothing against gifts and nice food but I really don't like taking the season and just making it into an almost frenzied build up to one day and then a massive mood crash on Christmas Day afternoon when it's "over". That's not healthy to me.

I still have mine up then but I dont get irrationally annoyed at people who take them down on the 27/28 like I do people on Christmas day and boxing day

It is still Christmas then

Because they don’t understand the 12 days of Christmas! Who outs up trees now? Not seen any!

Because boxing day is a holiday and still Christmas the 27th/28th isn't most people are back at work by then all the presents are unwrapped the food is eaten and family been seen. (And yes im fully aware some people work Christmas day and boxing day)

The real question is why do people insist on paying stupid money to get a dead tree which is sure to make a big mess that guarantees that no matter how good a cleaner you/OH/hired help is there will still be needles discovered in June.

Fun fact - tree farms need to employ pruners who are different heights and shapes as the trees pruned end up the same shape as the pruners. So someone who is tall and slim will end up with tall, slim trees and someone who is short and stocky will produce the short fat trees.

It's always annoyed me too - and I'm not saying all people who put them up early take them down early and moan about it, or all people who take them down early and moan also put them up early but there's definitely a correlation. I don't mind really what people do in their own homes, but please don't tell everyone you are 'sick of the sight of it'. If putting outside decorations up early, please make sure they are just nice tasteful white lights.

The whole "Christmas season" has skewed forward. The whole 12 nights of CHristmas and celebrating through to the 6th January is not reflective of how most of us live. By 3/4 January we are all back to work and school and the whole thing is a distant memory. Nobody is inviting people to Christmas parties on 5th January.

Christmas now is more about advent - the build up, with the event culminating on the 25th Dec.

You might not agree with that, or do things different in your house, but that's how most people do things in 2025.

Let ‘complaining about other people doing Christmas differently to me…’ season commence

I don't understand it either OP. I would never put decorations up before December although it helps my son has a November birthday so we make a fuss of birthday and decorate for that.

It’s still the Christmas season until the new year. It’s sad to take it down on Boxing Day.

Who’s to say you are the weirdo?

I'd love to put mine up today .
But I don't want the neighbours judgement 🤣
I will ,as usual wait to untill a respectable date sometime in December

So 1 day after is ridiculous, but 2/3 days after is absolutely fine?

Who is making these rules up?

I take mine down on 27th …chrsitmas is done then ….just want the new year to come….want to get tidy …..love the tree up to Christmas morning….once present are gone it needs to be gone….think a lot of people think like this

My friend takes hers down on Xmas day after her kids have been picked up by their Dad to do Xmas day #2 at his house. She hates sitting home alone at Xmas without the kids.

But the 27th/28th isnt the 25th/26th like some people i think the 27th/28th is reasonable slightly earlier then me but not still Christmas

My council doesn't even start collecting the trees until the 1st wk of Jan (pretty standard for London boroughs) so utterly pointless for me to take it down early.