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

I agree OP. The days that now get termed 'Twixmas' (basically all the days of real Christmas between the 25th and NYE) have lost a bit of their sparkle because so many people have now decided that once the commercial side of Christmas is over, then it's time to put the decs down.

Or mine 🙌 .
We’re putting up ours tomorrow 😊..
Miserable darkness outside , we love looking at the lights and bright cheeriness it adds to our house ..
Infact I have fairy lights all around my bureau in hall , around a cabinet in my sitting room, & around the bookcase aswel all year round ..
Bright , cheery & cosy ☺️

My hairdresser put hers up mid October. Fucking bananas

Not everyone is still celebrating then though. It also isn't just 1 day, it's simply not the same days as you. That's all.

I find it really strange that people take decorations down on boxing day or the 27th.....that's peak Christmas! We are still celebrating then and watching Christmas films and having extended family and friends over to celebrate. Would be a bit of a sad celebration with no decorations up! It seems mad to go to all the effort of decorating for only 1 day!! I enjoy mine for the full 12 days of Christmas and take them down on 5th January.

In many countries, they keep them until the 6th of January, that's what I do, because I want to, and I know someone who even takes longer to take it down, you can do whatever you want with the three.

Because Christmas is commercialised and it’s all about selling in the months beforehand. Christmas decorations should go up on Christmas Eve until 12th night but because the hard sell starts in October, people start early and are sick of it all by Boxing Day. I even know people who put a fake tree up in November and then replace with a real tree in December. To be clear, people can do what they want in their homes but I, personally, think starting so early is childish and silly. Advent is supposed to be a dark time building up to the light not a load of tat stuck up too early and then taken down once the first holiday ad comes on. I hate that there’s no carols after Christmas Day. Each to their own, but as a Christian, I believe that advent means that Christmas should be anticipated and longed for, then cherished and celebrated fully.

We always put them up straight after thanksgiving, (American family) do it slowly. A few decorations. The first tree the following week, the big tree first December. Mine all stay up until around 5th or 6th. The real tree sometimes has to go out before then though if it’s dropping needles as it’s potted, we then plant it one of the fields.
I don’t consider what anyone else does. It just what we do. Why does it matter what other people do when it doesn’t cause harm?

I agree op. Mine goes up in mid December, down after 12th night

Well, there's no 'of course' about it. Presumably you've heard of the twelve days of Christmas? I haven't noticed anyone on this thread telling people they have to prolong Christmas if they don't want to, but 'Christmas is over on Boxing Day' is an opinion, not a fact.

For many of us the best bit is between Christmas and New Year, all the stressful preparation is over and a lot of us have time off work to just relax and enjoy the festivities. Tbh I've never understood why those who declare Christmas is over after Boxing Day are in such a hurry to get things back to being exactly how they are most of the year round. Of course they should do exactly what they want to in their own homes (and I also realise a lot depends on whether or not people have to work over the festive season), I just don't get the rush to return to the humdrum and the workaday.

For you maybe, for a lot of people it's a festival of light, close to Dec 21st, when days start to get longer. It's family time in the darkest part of the year, for food, gifts and time off work (for some)
For others it's Christmas, sparkle and parties, but not religious at all
All are valid

I get that it's because they want to and to each their own. But I really enjoy the low key days between Christmas and New Year's, eating chocolates and not doing much. It wouldn't feel the same without the deccies up.

I put mine up at the end of August when Sainsbury's, and Poundland get their new range of Chrissie decorations in.

I have an old platic artificial sparkly tree from Woolworths.

Take it down a week after Valentines Day. Tie all.my cards on the branches..

The cats love it.

Meeooow.

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Because they want to. Not sure there’s any other answer.

I do find it a bit odd when people put their trees up in November, but I suppose that’s because we’ve never had a plastic tree so if we tried to do that it would probably look awful by Christmas Day. We put our cut tree up on the first weekend in December, and take it down on twelfth night. Our potted tree comes in the week before Christmas and stays in til twelfth night (as he doesn’t like to be inside for too long). My parents think we are ridiculous putting ours up big cut tree up so early, as they would typically get theirs just a week or so before Christmas, but I suppose it’s just a generational thing. I love the house being Christmassy and decorated for all of December and over new year (we usually have friends over for Ny and all the children sleep in the sitting room with the twinkly Christmas lights on and it’s magical - the adults get drunk in the other sitting room 😆).

We put our decorations up the last Saturday in November that we have DH daughter with us. She comes alternate weekends. So in three weeks. We will have all the decorations up. We will probably take them down just after new year. That weekend. They won’t make it to twelfth night.

I love all the decorations. Easter massive. Halloween massive. Christmas more than massive.

The dusting is annoying to achieve to a good standard so I lower my standards!

This!

I think it's sad that for hundreds of years we had rituals and traditions, stuff that meant something to us and what it is to be human, not necessarily even the religious aspect. Things like stir up Sunday, putting the family y sixpence in the pudding, making decorations with the children, putting the tree up on a certain day tied in with that because of the anticipation and satisfaction we got from delayed gratification. I think it's sad that there's a general idea of well we've done on the 25th we gotta get back to work type thing, I mean I get it but it's sad.

We go to my parents for Xmas so we put ours out the last weekend of November to enjoy them! On the rare year we fo stay at home, we take them down the day after boxing day. For me, Christmas is 1-26th December. After that we are looking towards new year.

We'll be working until 4 on Christmas Eve, but we run a shop. Also I don't expect to have a full day off during December. After the shop is shut on Xmas Eve we'll probably go for a quick cocktail to celebrate, and I could do with a lie-in on Christmas Day but the DC will probably be up at 6

I guess they must like the build-up to Christmas, but not Christmas itself? I put up the decorations somewhere in the first two weeks of Dec, but I keep them up til 6th Jan. For me New Year is still part of the Christmas holidays. If they're up early I guess it can get boring, but it's as if they only like Christmas Day and not the rest of the holidays

In my current job, we are forced to take Christmas eve as annual leave, even if you want to work it!

In my old job (public sector) we used to send people home from 3pm, a few people every half hour but we needed to keep people until closing time when the out of hours service took over, so it was definitely not guaranteed you'd get to leave earlier.

I put mine up 12 days before christmas and take it down 12 days after christmas but it's really no skin off my nose what anyone else does with theirs. So don't really see why it matters to you?

But it's not really, in most places people finish early on Christmas Eve. Of course not everyone has this luxury, but I don't know anyone who works a full day on Christmas Eve. (or on New Year's Eve)

which is why it's a waste to take them as a day off😂

@deeahgwitch "Isn’t the Christmas season traditionally carried through the New Year to January 6th"

My mother always kept our tree and trimmings up until 6th January and I continue that tradition. Neighbours used to say she was courting bad luck because 12th night was the 5th Jan, but she insisted it was midnight on the 6th. She was a Catholic so not sure if that has a bearing on it or if she was just plain wrong!