Who’s taking their Christmas tree down today?

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Or is it too soon?

and I don’t mean modern (Dec 1st to 31st) vs traditional (Christmas Eve to 12th night) - I mean if you want to spend Christmas Day taking down the tree and decorations then you can’t like it much!

I have a Xmas tree phobia so don't have one so not an issue for me.

But if I did have one I would keep it til Twelfth Night as that's traditional.

Real tree.

Goes up mid December, comes down first Saturday after New Year (roughly 12 day).

With water in the stand, it lasts about three weeks without shedding much.

Why would anyone take the tree down ahead of New Year?!

Why the hell would you do that? So miserable. I don't have a tree because I have nowhere to put one at the moment.but I do have strings of lights and lanterns.⁹

I always do Boxing Day or the 27th! Nice to reset!

Well, no, because I didn’t put them up in November rendering me bored with them, it’s still Christmas and why on earth would I spend my Christmas Day evening taking decorations down when I could be spending time with my family?!

There isn’t a rule and different people follow different traditions within their own family. There isn’t a right or wrong.

We put ours up on Saturday and that felt early - house full of atheists - usually take it down on 6th January but sometimes earlier. I worked until 6pm on 23rd and was bone tired when I got home, I couldn't muster much interest in Christmas until we cracked open the Bailey's and wrapped the presents after dinner on that day.

My parents are religious and put theirs up earlier than us, and trees in their church.

Christmas trees aren't a Christian tradition though any more than fairy lights are! I don't think religiosity and how early/ late a person decorates are directly connected.

Mine comes down tomorrow. I take it down without fail, every boxing day. I don't like the mess.

Tomorrow i am , this evening I am putting room decorations away and clutter .

Absolutely not. It went up last weekend and will come down on 2nd January to be taken back to JL on 3rd Jan. Beautiful tree - the integrated bastard lights didn't work. Had to rummage in the gge to find the old lights.

I usually take mine down before New Year but if I was spending Xmas Day doing it I’d be having a pretty rubbish day, there are so many nicer things to do!

I didn’t put one up this year, but if I had I woulsnt take it down on the actual day it was put up for 😂 I am a bit ‘right, that’s that then’ though, so I’d be side-eyeing it on Boxing Day and it’d be down on the 27th.

Mine comes down on the 26th normally. But the new tree I bought this year looks so nice that I might leave it up a little longer.

Doing mine Saturday morning. I have been tempted to do it today but resisting.

My DM has always been very strict on the tree coming down on 6th January, not before or after (unless she was going to be away). I stick with that, especially because that is also Nollaig na mBan (women's Christmas) so all the work falls to DH.

I put my tree up a couple of days ago and will be taking it down on twelfth night.

I only put it up two days ago, so yes - it's too soon for me. However, I'll probably be bored of it after a week.

Put mine up last weekend, and will take it down on Sunday 4th. I’m away for a few days before New Year, but it’s nice to come back to the tree.

Ours only went up yesterday! It’s staying put until the New Year at least.

Mine only went up this morning cause the kids don't like the tree it really upsets my 8 year old with ASD.
So it goes up Xmas morning and comes down in the evening.
We have other decorations that's stay up but the tree has too go.
This year my 3 year old has decided the tree is monster because it upset his brother.

oh my lord no
it’s so pretty this year branches have fluffed out (it’s a real tree)
keeping until 5th

it’s only been fully decorated 3 days

This. Controverialist bullshit.

Anyway Happy Christmas.

Never on Christmas day. I wait until new years day usually.

Absolutely not. I will be resting into and enjoying the whole 12 days of Christmas thanks. Post Christmas blues are not December business.