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

I have noticed that those who put theirs up early, and take them down once Christmas dinner dishes are put away, announce it on SM.

How would we know otherwise?

I personally, couldn't care less but have noticed the photos of piles of gifts and the early tree are the same folk who then post about it all being 'done and dusted' by Boxing day.

Each to their own, but it is indicative of a society that has to have something to look forward to. I am not in judgement of it, just find it part of our hurried lives...

Christmas isn't in November, I think most people know this, but the shops are full of it once October ends, so no wonder some throw themselves into it and are fed up once the Turkey digests.

Why doea it need to he that black and white?

I don't 'hate' my Christmas decorations! I have a tree and a few bits and bobs around the house but not much. There isn't really anything to scale back on. I love them.

But I also like to put them away when they've been up for 4 weeks and get the house clean and tidy before going back to work and the new year starts.

I don’t think people are saying they hate their decorations, just that they are taking them down when their Christmas is over.

I don't think that's misery guts at all. I'm more baffled by the people that hate their Christmas decorations so much that they are really happy to take them down (and clean). Why not just scale them back or skip them if that works better for you?

No - IL and Dmum are like that some years.

I think we'll just do christmas lights when they no longer come home or when they hit adulthood youngest is 16. Save having to fight the cats with the christmas tree and tinsel.

I think we'd still try and enjoy the period but it will look very different.

I'm tempted not to have a tree at all this year. Dcs are grown up,parents are dead. The season doesn't really hold any joy anymore for me personally. I used to love it and really throw myself into it but seriously can't be arsed any more.
[ do I win the misery guts of the year award?]

When we did a real tree we did last weekend in November but now we do the first weekend after the 11th (DHs late DM birthday and she was very much involved with Rememberance Day) but I don’t take it down until after New Year’s

I agree. Delayed gratification is so much more satisfying!

I agree op and I have a whole load of judgy opinions about it, which I won’t share here because ultimately it’s up to individuals to observe whatever traditions they like.

But I have to admit I’m a bit of a staunch traditionalist when it comes to Christmas; I believe in delayed gratification as well as the act of seeing the Christmas season as a prolonged event that isn’t over as soon as Christmas dinner is eaten and presents opened.

Mine goes up the last Sunday in November (which is the 30th this year).

I enjoy having the Christmas stuff out during the whole build-up to the day. The pretty lights bring a bit of joy to an otherwise dark and miserable month!

It comes down New Years Day.

It’s carried through to January if you want it to - there aren’t rules we must obey

Because they want to.

Me too.
Isn’t the Christmas season traditionally carried through the New Year to January 6th, Little Christmas or Women’s Christmas (here in Ireland) ?
It’s now like the US ☹️

We put our tree up as the family are winding down for the christmas break, work and school slows down. So the week before teens break up from school.

We are not religious in a formal way but I have hippy tendencies from time to time and enjoy the celebrations and reflection that the Christian faith gives over Christmas. Carols sung by well practised choirs in churches are transcending.

The tree is a family event, with decorations made by the kids over the years with memories and laughter with a lot of what goes on the tree. And Christmas itself is a time we are all off, no shopping or usual chores or clubs, it isn’t “over” on Boxing Day nor does it start in November.

Santa is not the one who brings magic to our house for Christmas, even when the kids were young they still had presents unopened under the tree on Boxing Day. It seems insane to me to be “right cone on you were too slow get these presents opened mum wants to dismantle the tree to vacuum now”

Personally I find having a tree up longer than the summer holidays doesn’t make those couple of weeks during the darkest time of the year special.

We have fairy lights up in the house all year round, they are pretty. So I understand that Christmas trees are pretty and cheer up a room. But you can do that and still not put a tree up beginning of November.

To me it is insane, I know it hurts no one, and trying to have a discussion about it is interesting. I understand people who might not have family around this Christmas putting a tree up early. And I understand for many the only parts of Christmas they enjoy are before the 25th, then want it over, that I don’t understand as much. But the whole of November is beyond my comprehension.

I don’t know anyone who shares Christmas photos on social media. We have a WhatsApp group for DH, DT’s and I and another for the wider family - my and DH’s parents and our siblings and their DC’s.
i’m only interested in our family photos at Christmas and not some random stranger.

Yes yes they would put them up in October.

It’s to get the most likes on social media. Because by 14th December strangers are bored of clicking like on all the pictures of average Christmas trees.

My dad died on New Year’s Eve and there is no way he would want us to take down our tree in memory of that day. Life is for the living, as he would say.

We put our tree up the first Saturday in December and take it down before NYE when I like to have a big deep clean of the house and go into the New Year with everything all fresh, tidy and clean.

But we're not Chrsitian and so Christmas itself doesn't really hold any particular significance to us. We do it for family, social and cultural reasons.

We don't spend silly money on food, presents or decorating the house either so it's not about the commercialism for us. I just prefer the run up to Christmas and all the events and social things. Christmas is over by Boxing Day for us.

I wouldn't start any of it before December though.

If that’s what you want to do then fine. I know someone who does this and is so incredibly smug about it like they are doing something amazing or clever. I mean if everyone did it would they put them up in October?

My dad died on Christmas Eve (great timing, Dad! 🤣). But i do Christmas as normal, he wasn't ever the biggest fan of Christmas and neither am I. I like the day itself as we are all together but I don't get particularly excited, well no more than anything else I enjoy in life, and there are plenty of things.

I can think of many easier ways in November to cheer myself up that are not related to Christmas. People these days just want instant gratification & kids aren't allowed to be bored for a minute

What i used to like as a kid, was the anticipation. But also the markers along the way.
1st Nov all souls' day- so usually mass in school.
Then remembrance day.
Then there was the slow burn to December- where you wanted to be excited, but not yet.
Then the advent calendar- so you knew it was coming, but life still normal and not yet. Although you were prepping for Xmas play.
Then the tree went up and you could go full throttle.

Now it's halloweenbonfirexmas.

because they want to 🤷‍♀️

I always do because it’s my daughters birthday on the 30th and I grew up with having my birthday in December lost to Christmas so I don’t want my daughter to just be a second thought on her birthday

I get tweaking traditions to suit your family and circumstances but the 01/11-25/12 tradition seems less like following a tradition and more like following shallow consumerism.