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?

I’ve seen Halloween decorations go up at the beginning of October! Absolutely ridiculous! And you can guarantee it’s the same people who put up Xmas decorations early November and take them down on boxing day

We purchased a new Christmas tree and I wanted to ensure it was in good condition and the lights worked so we decided to put it up, then rather than faffing about putting it back into the box and trying to get it into the loft only to bring it down 2/3 weeks later, we just decided to put it up properly. Then figured well we've got one up, let's do the rest.

Nope, I absolutely 100% do not understand this, I love this lazy relaxed part between Christmas and New Year with no pressure to do anything and the house is all cosy. I've read a book today, made a curry for tonight and had a nap. Lovely. I know someone who does this and delights in the house being bare and smelling of bleach - not my idea of fun but each to their own.

No I only put my tree up on the 20th! It has been up barely a week.

But then got fed up of seeing it and took it down on Boxing Day and made a thread about it 😂

What traditions do atheists have?!

I think putting your (5) tree(s) up on 10 November is equally as unreasonable as taking them down on Boxing Day.

Take it you didn't read any updates where I said I'm actually not sick of it? I just want a clean, fresh home for New Years and I'm working from the 29th onwards so can't do it then.

I'm also not completely getting rid of the festive joy as some have put it, I'm swapping Christmas decorations for winter decorations, the twinkling lights are staying, just not on a tree.

No, I think it was about March that I took it down last year.

Like I said, it’s just an attention seeking thread for validation, you already said you were the 3rd on your street to put up your Xmas tree so you seem very competitive and then have to make a thread to make sure you’re the first one posting to take your tree down! Not looking for validation at all 🙄😁

Orgies and dancing naked in the forest at midnight, also, exchanging gifts, eating Quality Street, seeing friends/family, pulling crackers.
Do religious people think they have a monopoly on traditions?

It doesn’t have to, depends on the context, which here is a Christian festival of Christmas. Christmas traditions relates to Christmas itself - which you don’t celebrate as an atheist. So you have a holiday/party season and some family habits but that’s not that the same thing at all.

Odd question - but our Christmas traditions are no different from many others who aren’t religious that we go to watch the Nutcracker, ice skate, visit Plateau Mont-Royal, cross country skiing, Igloofest, Montreal en lumiere, shopping down Mile End.

Everything stays up until the evening of 5 January in this house. It is still Christmas until then.

Everyone calls the season Christmas regardless of whether you are a Christian or not.

The commercial aspect is indeed a tedious, elongated pain in the arse. In Northumberland I saw a Christmas tree up in August - August! - with advertisements for Christmas lunch bookings. At that point in the year the kids were trailing in from the beach with their buckets and spades.

The garden centre is a landfill nightmare from September - complete with terrible Christmas music and that hideous reek of synthetic cinnamon - their poor staff. It drives them bonkers, as several have confided over the checkout, and they're sick to death of it long before December rolls around. And from the 1st onwards, the supermarkets are a bun fight. Who are all these people? Where do they go for the rest of the year? 😂

But only the purple Quality Street!

Saddos that’s what 😂

To everyone saying it's still Christmas ?? Why Christmas Day is over

No OP it’s actually Christmas right now.

It was a question, you answered it.

I have literally never seen/heard of/been aware of the first two. The rest of them are the same as Christians.

"This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason we can't dance the Christmas polka" (Jim Reeves).

Christmas isn't only Christmas Day!!

It’s merely a name for the time of year - Christmas, Easter holidays etc.

Feasting, companionship, sparkles and lights, new books, thinking and chatting about the year that’s passing and the new one coming, trying to remember that card game Bobby taught us last Christmas, going for a walk, having a break from work and taking time to rest at the hardest time of year, making sure our mums and widowed auntie’s know they’re loved. That sort of thing.

Plus of course the orgies and sacrifices, those go without saying.

Do you only start Christmas on Christmas Day or do you start in November?? Asking for a friend 😁