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?

How is it any different to those who can’t wait to jump on the thread to call OP miserable, joyless, attention seeking, weird and ludicrous?

I can’t believe how worked up some people are getting over when a tree in someone else’s house gets put down. Now that’s weird.

Oh no! It can stay up until at least 4th or 5th Jan. I love decorating the tree and looking at it. It only went up last week so it will be a fixture for a while now.

LOL! The people calling the OP (and the very few people who are like her) miserable, attention-seeking, ludicrous, and joyless wouldn't do so, if the daft 'I took my Christmas tree down on Boxing Day' threads weren't posted in the first place! 😂

Lots of people are quite glad when Christmas Day itself is over, it's quite stressful even if it's enjoyable and some want to move on. I don't find it weird to seek some companionship in that.

Right. Because a thread about it means you have no choice but to get worked up and comment about it by calling OP all kinds of things.

All over a tree.

Yeah kids - at my age I'd be more likely to go arse over tit. No thanks.

Correct.

LOL.

The only ones getting 'worked up' here are the posters (like you) going off on one about opinions from random people on the internet, and taking it all so seriously, and getting faux-offended. 😆

Take a chill pill hun! It ain't that deep!

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I’m definitely not one of the pp’s going off on one or acting offended.

Just find it funny that some people have been calling OP all sorts of things since this afternoon just because of a tree.

I like how you missed out the fact I said it helped us relax, and that relaxation is different for everyone. Well twisted to suit your narrative.

I have a mid-November birthday and generally start putting Christmas things up shortly after and there is absolutely no way anything is coming down until the end of the first week of January. I don't mean to sound excessively judgemental but I think it's got more to do with how ugly and overstimulating your Christmas decorations are than how long they're up. My real Christmas tree is beautiful, natural, calming and tastefully decorated, I have Christmas cards strung across the chimney breast in one room, a brass leaf garland in another, taper candles everywhere, some fir garlands decorated with pinecones draped on bookshelves, lots of heavy cotton velvets, and warm white static lights only. Of course if you have an unattractive tinsel-type tree with strobing coloured lights, all manner of tacky sparkly shit on every surface, Father Christmas decals all over your windows and those foil spiral things sellotaped to the ceiling cluttering up your vision, you're going to be keen to get it all gone as quickly as possible.

If I had mine up for seven weeks I'd be sick of it. But we don't put up our (real) tree til first weekend in December so now after all the rush around and preparations are done we can sit back and enjoy it for a few more days.
I have no desire to deep clean anything for the time being, and my kids would be very put out if I declared Christmas over.

Tasteful and tacky are subjective. You may not mean to sound judgemental but you do. And you sound very snobby.

Omg what a bragging, snobby, judgement ‘My Christmas tree is better than your Christmas tree post”!
Do you feel better now that you have dismissed an awful lot of the population who don’t use a real tree as being beneath you? What was the point of your post other than to brag? What were you trying to achieve?

@batt3nb3rg you do well to keep a fresh tree going for so long. One of the reasons we have decs from mid Dec to 6th Jan is because we have a real tree and even though we buy a good quality species, they don't last.

No one is declaring Christmas is over just because they've taken their tree down. You don't need a tree and decorations up to still do Christmas(expats in the strict Muslim countries still do Christmas without a tree )

You don’t need a tree no, but it is a much-loved part of it for many and it certainly feels as though it’s all over here once it gets taken down. But that is probably because we keep ours up till 12th Night, so it is very much associated with the end of the festive period for us, taking it down now would make it feel as though it was over far too soon. Also for me the house looks so bare once it goes, I soon adjust but I really miss it for the first few days.

We’re having a Christmas party tomorrow so no, the tree is up because IT IS CHRISTMAS TIME!

A lot of people have said they'll be taking theirs down at the weekend. We're visiting family/having people over today and Saturday, I'm at work Sunday-Wednesday, so yesterday was the only real day I could do it. I like to start the New Year with everything tidy and fresh, no Christmas clutter. If I put the tree up on the 24th December it would still come down before NYE.

Oh. I like all the clutter gone too. Just not the decorations. But stockings, leftover crackers and wrapping paper all those things are going back in the loft today, presents have been found homes. But decorations don't count as clutter, even though they include all the stuff the DCs made when they were younger, each thing has it's place, they are mostly hanging and bog on surfaces, those that are on surfaces aren't in the way so they stay out.

The point was very clear to me, that if you put up decorations that you yourself find ugly and overstimulating, of course you’re going to be in a hurry to get them down as soon as you can get away with. If people actually liked their own Christmas decorations like I do, they wouldn’t be in a rush to get them down, would they?

And I’m hardly saying my Christmas tree is better - just that I’m my experience the vast majority of people like real plants more than artificial ones. If it applies to potted plants and cut flowers, it’s not a leap to think it applies to trees. Most fake trees just feel like a lit up triangle of tinsel to me, which take up space and are not terribly atmospheric. High quality artificial trees and real trees that either look or are natural justify taking up space with their beauty.

I like my decorations. But I also like my house the way I decorated it for the rest of the year. And I like that my Christmas decorations are special to Christmas. Wanting to enjoy your house as it is at Christmas and as it is otherwise says nothing about whether you have tacky decorations or not.

We have gorgeous Christmas tree decorations, very special to me as my grandmother kept them safe through the occupation during the war but I still don’t want the tree up past Boxing Day.

Why would anyone have decorations they thought were ugly?

The point was very clear to me, that if you put up decorations that you yourself find ugly and overstimulating, of course you’re going to be in a hurry to get them down as soon as you can get away with. If people actually liked their own Christmas decorations like I do, they wouldn’t be in a rush to get them down, would they?

Exactly, because most people buy and decorate with things they find ugly and overstimulating. That makes absolutely no sense perfect sense.

Definitely think it’s harder to keep the tree looking nice if you’re like our family and have presents under the tree as they come in - it’s an ordeal to take everything out of the way to water it then put it all back. But I have found near-daily watering does the trick, and cutting a ring off the end of the stump is helpful too. We don’t get a particularly high quality tree - this year was a £45 Norseman Fir from B&Q. We spent nearly £100 on a tree from the vendors who pop up in our local park last year and it dropped like crazy, three plus hours of hoovering the living room and the path the tree took out of the house, it nearly put my husband off a real tree forever and we will probably look for a very high quality silicone artificial tree in the sales as those are the ones I find look most realistic.

People put up decorations and get fed up with them because they put them up as soon as Halloween is over and then moan they’re sick of seeing them/ have no space in the house/ want to get back to normal. If they didn’t put their tree up so early they wouldn’t be so desperate to take it down on Boxing Day. I would feel the same if I’d put my tree up almost 2 months too early regardless of if I was using a real tree or not. People here are not saying they hate their decorations, they are saying they are fed up with the ‘me first’ mentality from those who have to be the first to put up their tree and post about it and also be the first to take it down and post about it. Nothing to do with their taste in decorations. If they didn’t like their own decorations then they wouldn’t have bought those decorations in the first place surely!