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

Oh Oona, how you do amuse us. 😂

See, I'm the opposite. The run-up tends to be very stressful for me (though hopefully not this year as I've started planning earlier), too much happening all at once, and then Christmas Eve onwards is when I can finally relax, aside from Christmas dinner which DH does most of anyway. I just love being able to veg out between Boxing Day and New Year's (as mentioned up thread, I do realise not everyone gets to do this) and the decorations still being up is such an important part of the atmosphere of those days, for me.

I also seem to get a degree of relief from my SAD when the decs are up, the lights seem to have a significant therapeutic effect on me, so for that reason I keep the tree up as long as I can get away with it. I don't put it up til the beginning of December, though.

IT should be the law that Christmas decorations are put up 12 days before Christmas and taken down 12 days afterwards. Or not put up at all.

There needs to be a major crackdown on Christmas and the commercial exploitation of religious holidays in general.

Because I absolutely love the run up to Christmas and want to be in that Christmas mode for as long as possible. But as soon as boxing day hits i am over it and want to clean the house by the 28th and ready for a fresh start in the NY. Even if we decorated the week before xmas I would be ready to move on by boxing day. But it works for me / our family and v amused that it would bother other people enough to make a thread abou it 🤣

For some people the Christmas period ends on Boxing Day

I am with you OP this doesn't make sense to me either. If you love Christmas that much that you put your tree up in November then why don't you keep it up for the whole Christmas period!

I mean each to their own and it doesn't bother me I am just curious. Ours goes up beginning of December and stays until the 2nd Jan normally. I like to be able to sit and enjoy the tree when I am off over Christmas to enjoy it as I don't get much of a chance in the run up as it's so busy!

At the risk of making myself sound ancient, I seem to remember the Christmas ads and the pre-Christmas buzz, shopping etc, in the 70s when I was a kid, generally not starting till actual December!

I agree and think it’s too early but understand that people can do what they want and when.
When my dd was little the tree would go up mid December and down often before NYE as she has SEN and it sent her into overdrive if it stayed up, so to regain normality I would take it down on the 27th.

Nowadays I am by myself and put it up first week of December and take it down on the 1st or 2nd.

Because they’re dimwits?

I'm tempted to put my tree up early in solidarity with the people OP despises, but it's not my style really. However, live and let live. If this bring them pleasure I say good for them.

Your boxing day sounds just like my xmas eve. We do the same things, just on different days.

It's definitely a generational thing because for me as a kid of the 80's, the hype you get now wasn't the same back then, you didn't see Xmas trees and xmas menus in pubs in August, shops clearing out all the garden stuff to replace with Christmas wonderlands in September!
Younger generations are getting caught in the commercial hype and getting Xmas decorations out the loft on Halloween! I mean you get to new years day now and then you get the Christmas catalogue adverts encouraging you start Christmas shopping for the next Christmas and pay it off in installments all year.

When you've got people that put Xmas stuff up as soon as it turns into Nov and then keep them up til second week of Jan, that is lunacy to many previous generations! You wouldn't celebrate Easter for over two months.

Not in our house. 😆But it could quite easily be November without them!

(Come to think of it, another reason why I need to keep Christmas in December is it's the only month I allow myself to drink Baileys. I'd be the size of a house otherwise. 😄)

Many people can be back at work on the 27th and that's the celebration gone. I enjoy going out for a meal and a few jars with my partner on NYE but it is back to normality for workers, it falls a bit nicer this year because boxing day is Friday but Christmas feels a distant past once you are back at work. My partner and I like travelling and use our leave to go overseas around the year, I don't want to waste it sat at home in the dead of winter, weather is far from guaranteed for walking to a country pub.

I don't bother with priority boarding, happy to wait in the departure lounge till the queue goes down. But I was given 'speedy boarding' on our last holiday as I'd paid for a larger cabin bag. That way you ensure you get space in the overhead locker. Had to leave the rest of the family behind in the normal queue!

And other people do their celebrating over a different period. Does no one on this thread work on Christmas Day or back to work after Christmas?

Maybe taking the decorations down on the 26th is a form of welcoming the fact that it is over and they can relax and wind down.

How can it be over on Boxing Day? It’s the second day of Christmas! And how sad if people have children. My family absolutely loves the days between Christmas Day and new year’s. Boxing Day, we have an open house every year, with friends coming all day. The other days are country walks and pub lunches and just enjoying the festive season. Imagine going to a country pub 2 days after Christmas Day and it was all back to normal. How sad.

Sometimes, we’ve taken our trees down on the 30th, but that’s only if we go skiing for new year and don’t want to come back to (dead) Christmas in January.

Maybe taking the decorations down on the 26th is a form of welcoming the fact that it is over and they can relax and wind down. Some people seem to be in an arms war when it comes to entertaining, always trying to be bigger and better than their peers or themselves last year, and that is not only exhausting but unsustainable. As an example on a larger scale, that is essentially what has happened with the Lewes bonfire and why they have to resort to stopping people coming into the town when it is on, it has got bigger and bigger over the years to the point they have reached the limits of what they can cope with.

Anyone want to join me in a Keep Christmas Where it Belongs (December) campaign?

Priority boarding is good (my friend introduced me to it earlier this year), you can be straight on the plane and sat down without all the fiddle faffer trundlebunnies fannying about with their hand luggage getting in the way. Once you are sat on the plane, you can get on with whatever you brought to entertain yourself until you reach your destination.

Also some people have to have something big to look forward to, whether it's a holiday, Christmas, Easter etc and have to prolong the celebrations for themselves & their kids as much as possible. I just don't understand getting excited about something that's months (or even weeks) away

I also blame the bloody Christmas adverts & Christmas music on tv & radio as soon as Halloween us over then stop abruptly on Christmas Day evening...then we'll hear Jess Glynne advertising a well known holiday company and the cycle starts again

Oh I know, I caught a glimpse of the Aldi Christmas advert on tv today, plus an advert on the radio advertising a special offer for Ferrero Rochers at Morrison's "because it wouldn't be Christmas without them!" Yes it bloody would!

Put them in stocks and have them pelted with putrid pumpkins left over from Halloween.

Yes, the type of people who put the bins out by 7am even though they aren’t collected until the next day! The ones who pay for priority boarding on flights because they can’t bear the thought of someone experiencing the airplane seat before them.

These smug and tedious idiots just HAVE to be first! It’s what they live for… Always living life in advance of the actual event.

My spooky Halloween decs are up all november to cheer me up, but then most of it stays year round anyway