Who’s taking their Christmas tree down today?

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Or is it too soon?

Mine will be down on Monday but things will slowly disappear before then.

It will be up another 2 or 3 weeks I guess / brighten up this time of year / mines really pretty

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That's a bit late, I put mine up in August and took it down yesterday.

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HNRTFT but just why go to the effort of putting up a tree and decs and then spend Boxing Day removing them …am interested in the mind set !

Ours will probably stay up until Candlemas , I like the lights and can't be arsed with all the hoohah of taking it all down, wrestling it into boxes and sticking it back in the loft , to be fair the holiday bags are still waiting to be put in the loft from September, gives you an idea of how quickly stuff gets done around here

I mean i can’t stand Christmas but even im not that bad.

mine went up on the 2nd Dec. (Unfortunately) teens wanted it up and if I had my way it would be down in the 27th but it’s not just my Christmas and so it will stay up until new years Eve.

i do like going into New year with a clean home and I’m just itching to get on with some much needed decluttering and tidying now.

So people take the trouble to send you birthday cards and it’s not ungrateful to bin them immediately? There’s either a lot of backstory here or, well, you do sound pretty ungrateful tbh.

Back story to it all.

It's literally Christmas Day 🤣

So if you wanted to be really traditional you should leave them up until Candlemas which is 2 February
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/leaving-up-christmas-decorations/

Rubbish rage bait, but no, up mid December, down the weekend before going back to work.

Also house is perfectly clean, doesn’t need a ‘deep clean’ just because it’s had a tree in it for a couple of weeks.

Don't you like Christmas then?
Why did you bother with a tree?

And who has the energy to pack away Christmas decorations on Christmas day?

Mine went up the weekend after Thanksgiving (Brit in the US) and comes down the weekend January 2.

My tree goes up weekend after 8 December (my late dad’s birthday) and stays up until 12th night or maybe a day or so before if I am working. Real tree.

If we’ve had a stressful Christmas, the tree goes down on Boxing Day.
If it’s been a really nice Christmas, we keep it up until new year.

I bought mine 23 December and took it to be chipped straightaway. Didn't bother with the whole putting it in the house malarkey.

This is when mine will start coming down. Hopefully have it all boxed up and in the loft by the Sunday! Feels so empty when it’s gone .

No not devout Christians. Few Christians now fast in Advent but most people have sung “On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…”. The first day of Christmas is Christmas Day.

Until 20 or so years ago, 12th night parties were quite common. French patisseries sell galette de Rio, for 12th night. A lot of Christmas traditions were linked to the fact that little work could be done on farms in the middle of winter. Plough Monday was when they went back to work, ploughing the fields and it’s the first Monday after Epiphany, 12th night. When according to one of the gospels, the wise men presented gifts to Christ.

Winter was hard in the countryside and there wasn’t much work. When there wasn’t work, there was nothing to earn. A lot of the winter festivals and traditions were centred around extorting money, with various degrees of menaces. That’s why men blacked their faces, for example for the Cutty Wren tradition, and the St Stephen’s Day Hunt the Wren, and for poaching, to avoid recognition. This became a capital offence in 1723.

So religion is interwoven with convenience and necessity.

6th of Jan is the day

Even if it was the law I wouldn’t take my tree down on Christmas Day as after doing absolutely everything else, I couldn’t be arsed!!

Isn't it...

Usually left up until Candlemas (glad to see another on here). Basically any excuse as I love my tree and enjoy it seeing me through as much of the winter gloom as possible.

This year, nothing to take down as didn’t put it up. Two new cats this year and, quite frankly, I didn’t trust the little buggers enough to put it up!

Ours comes down on New Year’s Day. My mum died on 12th night (early hours of the morning) and we went back with my dad and almost ripped the tree down. Something so festive felt so wrong. I swore I would never take a tree down that late ever again, so we take it down on New Year’s Day so everything is back to normal for going back to work. It also gives me those few days to remember my mum.