The Christmas tree is down!

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Just taken down the main living room tree, absolute workout getting it back in the box and as usual I found a couple of stars once I'd packed away the decorations.

Trying to get all the trees down today so I can deep clean the house before New Years.

Anyone else just want their space back and taking decorations down today?

Same if I become one. I will also ban the phrase Happy Christmas and the correct greeting will be Merry Christmas.

We're still enjoying the leftovers from yesterday, gradually emptying the celebrations tub and bottles of Bailey's. We're also watching Christmas movies and have swapped Christmas decorations for winter decorations so the twinkling lights are still around

I can't imagine anything worse than crushed velvet and mirrored furniture, my DH actually has a thing about velvet, he can't touch it without becoming visibly uncomfortable

Yes because some people have a different set of traditions than you and don’t want to be celebrating Christmas until 6 January.

Everyone is different, we all do different things. Why do people on here get so judgemental about a tree! i.e the comment about crushed velvet and mirrored furniture (I have neither and took my tree down today)

This. ^ I don't know ANYONE who takes the Christmas tree down on Boxing Day in real life.

Parallel world of Mumsnet and all that. 🙄

Yeah this. ^ As I said though, in real life, no-one I know does this! (Takes their Christmas tree down on Boxing Day!)

Absolutely not, it stays up until the 6th Jan!

I don't get why people are so invested in what others do.
If it isn't effecting you, just carry on with your own traditions, carry on doing your own thing and don't worry about what other people are doing.

We all have different lives.
Some of us are still rocking round the Christmas tree.
For others it has been a difficult time and they just want some normality.

It doesn't matter when they go up or when they come down.
Just do it your own way.

Yup, mine is away today too.
Once christmas is done I want it down, I'm an up week before December. Down early.

I'm back to work this weekend, then have a week off, so I can get New Years party done. Then crack on with a deep clean.

I love Christmas, but Dec's always down on Boxing day.

Agreed - just checked with 84 yo Inlaws and drawing upon my own 50something years… not one of us knows or has known another living soul who takes their trees down on 26th. But to say so, or that we find the idea of doing so ‘weird’ is apparently forbidden on MN. Apparently using synonyms for ‘unusual’, ‘strange’, and ‘unobserved in the real world over 50-85 years of living’ is thought to be rude… 🤣

But i have no issues with those people who do it. Each to their own.

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My parents rang me to tell me they had taken the tree down today and they can forget about Christmas and it's all back to normal.

In their 50 shades of greige house. It's really sad, there's no background of needing to see the back of Christmas, or the year, they do this every year.

But that is Christmas.

What tradition is November to 26 Dec? An entirely faux one.

Ours was never put up........only got the Christmas cards by way of decorations and they will be gone soon

What the? It’s only the second day of Christmas? I think it’s miserable to have the decs down before 12th night. Our decorations only went up the weekend before 🎄

As you will see from this thread many of us have a tradition of celebrating in the period leading up to Christmas Day although our tree doesn’t go up until about 10 days before. I’m sorry you’re so intolerant to accept that others celebrate in a different way than you - neither is right or wrong.

Absolutely not, it’s still Christmas! Christmas for us isn’t just one day, so the tree will come down around the 4th January.

Yes absolutely....

Looks like op is alone In her take the tree down club. Maybe next year op don't put your tree up in October then you will enjoy it for Christmas as intended!!

Do you need a tree up to enjoy Christmas?

You will just get told not to open the thread if you don’t like it! Despite the thread being for public view (and validation) because they can’t wait to tell everyone they’re the first to take down their tree lol

Blimey that is quick. Never known anyone to take them down prior to new years.

It is still the Christmad period.

I feel like the too-early too-long Christmas is forced on me to a large extent. The commercial stuff ramps up and feels relentless, just trying to do a normal shop or go out for a coffee and I feel battered with tinsel and Christmas songs. Then there’s the work lunch, the hobby club lunch, people putting decs up around the office, the people wanting to do something before Christmas because they will be somewhere else…it goes on and on. For many of us it’s exhausting, I’m tired and irritable, my social batteries are completely flat. I totally understand when people want it to stop now, to put everything away, get some lovely winter quietness.

Absolutely not, I'm taking mine down as we speak, then I have family round later for drink, food and fun

Tree for us does not equal for Christmas.

It's just practical for us to take it down today.

Christmas music still blasting.

There's always the same thread every year.

Take your trees down whenever you like…but how come five of them? Where do you put them all? Are they all full decorated trees??