Why do people take the Christmas tree down Boxing Day?

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My Facebook is full of it
Ripped down Christmas night.
I don't understand it.
Most of them had them up since the day after Halloween (when it wasn't even Christmas )
Then rip it down when it's Christmas (12 days of Christmas)
Oh I'm sick of the mess
Need my living room back
Honestly i don't understand the logic
Why not enjoy the festive season as long as possible

Exactly.

It's not even the decision, but the showboating that's weird.

So you have a valid reason to take yours down. Just don't understand the FB bragging of taking the down when it's still the festive period when no other reason other than wanting it gone. Have a fab holiday!

I sometimes wonder if those people who get rid of it all quickly are the ones shopping for the Easter Eggs on the 2nd of January. Cos someone must be buying them very early? Or is it just a retail tactic? Get the idea of the next money making thing surreptitiously in people's heads as soon as they can?

Or is it a social media/influencer thing? Onto the next thing, showing it off before everyone else does, getting in there first?

If you're not doing it because you're going away or literally won't have time to do it any other time, I don't get it. Enjoy the here and now.

I’m very confused by the “I like to start the year with a clean house” comments. It’s as if you can’t have a clean house and decorations. Weird to me but we’re all different. I’m already a bit sad that I’ll come home from work and the twinkling lights won’t be round the front door for the rest of winter. Decorations are starting firm for now.

Different horses, different courses 🤷🏻‍♀️It's unthinkable in my family for the tree to come until twelfth night. But I start taking other decorations down bit by bit from 2nd Jan onwards 👀

I can't imagine any of our neighbours taking down their Christmas tree so soon, but there again decorations don't go up in November so maybe it's a location thing too? So weird

We often used to go away for New Year, usually at some point between the 28th and the 30th, so taking the decoration down on Boxing Day or the day after just made sense. No one wants to come home in early January to a load of tidying up. a dead tree to dispose of and decorations to sort out.

This chat forum would be like a ghost town if people only commented on things that affected them directly.

Because Christmas is finished? My tree comes off after Christmas, the day after boxing day if possible. Time to move on.

I do find it weird when people have trees in November or in January, December is more than enough, but each to their own. I think Christmas is more enjoyable and special if it's not 3 months long.

If you've ever done any travelling from around the start of November to the end, you'll see it's not a location thing.

Because they want to.

I will never understand the posts like this one where an OP simply cannot understand that their way is not the only way. Why does it matter to you when other people put their tree up or take it down? Is it really a shock that some people do things differently to you? Your tradition and way of doing things is not the only way. It’ll probably be unthinkable to you but I didn’t even bother with a tree! 😱

@TooManyChristmasCards Christmas isn't finished tho 🤣
Christmas Day is the first day of Christmas not the last.

I know! I only came on to see if there was a thread on this, it’s become a Boxing Day tradition 😂

Might be in reaction to those who have been banging on about Christmas since August 😂

By the time it's Christmas, most people are already sick of it, it's been going on for wayyyyyyy too long. I love the festive season, but it doesn't need to be longer than a couple of weeks, does it?

I think if you go all out all of December by new year you’re probably done! Ours comes down little Christmas in January but I’ll have snuck away a few bits before then to get a start on it!

I put our decs up mid-December and am hoping to get them down tonight once DD goes to bed! Honestly, they make the house feel cluttered and I can't wait to put them away 😂

This is the problem with Christmas. Advent used to be a time of quiet reflection (a bit like Lent) and then there were the twelve days. Now people start flapping about being “ready” from mid November and there’s a mad orgy of consumption for about six weeks until Christmas.

It’s the reason people do dry January. They’ve been boozing since mid November.

I spent the last 2 weeks of November gradually putting the decorations up, buying/wrappings presents etc. As the older I get the faster 1-24 dec goes and I can't handle being frantic anymore! I wanted to ease into Christmas in a relaxed fashion.

But my tree will be up for a while yet. I'll start around the 3rd (busy on 1st and 2nd) but again will be doing it over a few days. I'll miss the decorations when they're gone so it's nice to enjoy them for a while.

I tend to assume that these people who can't wait to take them down have minimalist tendencies and see them as "clutter". Which is why they then get irritated by them.

Decluttered. I like my house declutterred for the new year. Christmas means different things to different people. Christmas finishes for me the day after Boxing day. Then it’s preparing for new year. I don’t put it up on social media though. I couldn’t care less what other people do lest judge them for it.

That's true for you. But others celebrate in different ways.

I put mine up end of November but take it down a couple of days after Christmas.
And it is certainly not because I am “fed up of it” by now, it’s because I love Christmas so much, but the anticipation and the run up are the best bits for me, and once it’s over, it’s over. I’m not into all this twelfth night stuff. After Christmas, my tree just makes me a bit sad as it’s a reminder that my favourite time of year is over. So I rip the plaster off and just get it down.

In your house maybe. Not in mine. Christmas is over after Boxing day. I enjoy the build up for a couple of weeks, Christmas eve, Christmas Day and Boxing day and then for me, it’s done.

Most of them had them up since the day after Halloween

This ^^ is why.

Our tree went up mid December, and Boxing Day is still Christmas in my book.

I usually take the tree down on New Year's day as I like to get the house cleared before DH's birthday.

We try to do a bit of traditional advent in our own way. We diet and have a dry advent, try to lose a couple of kilos ahead of Christmas, then we can enjoy the feasting even more and not have to bother with anything overly Spartan during the rest of Winter.

We decorate no more than a week before Christmas Day, don't have any festive food until at least the 21st, and keep going until Twelfth Night. This year we're going away for New Year and coming back on the 6th, so we'll finish off our Christmas leftovers then, and take the tree down on the 10th or 11th probably.

I'm just pretty much an 'each to their own' sort of person when it comes to what others do in their own homes.

But to start a thread asking if it's 'unreasonable' makes my retinas ache 🙄😁