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

I know! The amount it energy people spend on thinking about what others do whith some plastic tat in thier own homes is astounding.

Unless you are shoving them up my arse, I don’t care what you do with your bloody baubles. Keep them up until
August, it doesn’t make a difference to my life.

Wow. "Tantrums". "Demand everyone else dances to your tune". Is that what you took from my post? I think there's a wee bit of projection going on!

You’re guessing wrong.

Because it went up in November, probably! Sometimes people don't have the living space and the tree ends up feeling like clutter.

Mine stays up 'till twelfth night, but I like to string it out as long as possible!

Because they put it up far too early and put up a tree that’s too big and decorations that have taken over half their house. For the insta/facebook/tiktok. And now they’re making a big thing of taking it down. For the insta/facebook/tiktok.

Another thing that may shock people is that some people don’t actually like Christmas that much, and don’t want to ‘celebrate’ for 12 nights. My best friend lost her mum on Christmas Day when she was a teenager and would rather not celebrate at all, but she has young children so she puts a tree up for a few days over Christmas then takes it down again. There are all sorts of reasons someone might not want to keep their tree up until the 5th Jan, and I imagine for many it’s not just that it’s because they’re ’celebrating a commercial Christmas’, or because they put it up in November.
Mine went up on the 15th December and will be down today.

I also have neither Instagram, Facebook or Tik Tok, so I won’t be publishing it on any of those channels.

I love how people always come on here to post their superior 'Actually Christmas is Christmas Eve til 13th Night you're doing it wrong' posts. It's the same every year, so traditional 🎄

(My tree is up from beginning Dec to beginning of Jan if that matters)

I put mine up at the beginning of December at little earlier than usual because the Grandchildren came to stay . It's getting on my nerves now but it will come down New Year's Day as we are at work the next day and just want to come home and chill

"Christmas starts on Christmas Day so it isn’t finished or time to move on, and it’s rude and frustrating to see people saying it is. You’re just celebrating some commercial idea of Christmas and diminishing other people trying to celebrate it properly"

What's rude is expecting everyone else to celebrate thing in exactly the same way you do.

Many people feel Christmas is over with. Not everyone follows the 12 days of Christmas. And you know what? That's ok. It has no bearing on these who do. Just like it's perfectly fine to leave your decorations up for as long as you want.

Whether or not someone else takes down their tree now has zero effect on whether another wants to keep their tree up. And it's so rude of you to suggest otherwise or suggest they aren't doing Christmas "properly".

It's really not hard to acknowledge others do things differently. And it's really not that hard to not let other peoples traditions or needs affect you. Especially when it's in their own home and has zero effect on anyone else.

Yup, that’s me. My mum died just before Christmas when I was 11. And she was diagnosed with cancer when I was 7, so Christmases were usually spent with her ill or having treatment. So that was rough, and the rest of my childhood Christmases after she died were basically spent on my own with the dog while my dad did all the double pay shifts he could (no family that gave a shit about us and friends tend to fuck off into the sunset when someone dies),
and my dad being depressed and suicidal when he was at home.

Now that I’ve got my own children, I put on an act for them, but I thank fuck when Boxing Day morning comes around and I can get back to normal and not have to pretend to join in the enforced cheerfulness.

Now, none of the above is anyone’s business, apart from a couple of very close friends who I’ve decided to tell. So if anyone said anything to me in real life about something so fucking ridiculous as what date I take down a plastic tree from my living room, I’d either go and cry on my own or tell them they were a ridiculous cunt, depending on what mood I was in that day.

Luckily these opinions are usually only given on the internet.

I’m sorry to hear how Christmas makes you feel, and I sympathise as my husband is the same.

His mum absolutely adored Christmas and when she died unexpectedly 10 years ago it changed everything. He finds Christmas so painful not having his mum around because normally she’d be the one causing all the laughs and merriment, and her absence at Christmas has left a big hole. He puts on the jovial act each years for the sake of our children but I know it’s very, very hard for him. I also think he’s very glad when the Christmas tree comes down on Boxing Day.

I am dog sitting for my neighbour as from yesterday. When I went to put the recycling out yesterday I saw all the Christmas cards in the cardboard recycling bin. No decorations up in the house. They're back on the 30th.

I saw all the Christmas cards in the cardboard recycling bin.

We get very few Christmas cards at all in the post and I don't send any. Any that come in the post get opened, read, and filed straight into the recycling. I don't display them and never have.

I always hang onto Christmas and Birthday cards for a year, in case one of the senders dies and it's the last card I have from them.

Same here! I can’t stand getting Christmas cards, such a waste of peoples money. They go straight in the recycling bin.

Ours dd once come down on 7th Jan instead of the 6th, but that was because Gdd2 decided to arrive on the 6th, so we had to scoot off 60 miles to look after her little siblings.

Otherwise it’s always the 6th, and I always feel sad to take it down - early January always feels so dreary with all the cheerful lights gone.

I have this tree from John Lewis in the corner of my room all year and switch it on when need cheering up or have guests.

I don't understand it because Boxing Day is one of the bank holidays

I don’t see the rush to take it down, I love the sparkly lights, and love it on my birthday on 29th

I've just taken mine down, Nothing happened. No randoms looking in my window with a sad face. No one declaring they detest me.

Half of Mumsnet is weeping though 😔

Mine was up on 19th Nov and will be down 2nd Jan. I don’t get the coming down on Boxing Day ones as to me that’s still Christmas but, by the same token, it’s not my house so it doesn’t affect me.

I don't understand it going up in November either. It's not even Advent.

Perhaps the poster doesn’t believe in Advent?