Who’s taking their Christmas tree down today?

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Or is it too soon?

Sorry to read this, OP. These things land extra hard during the festive season. My own mum lost her father over Christmas when she was younger and it's tainted the season for her ever since.

I take down 3rd/4th/5thJanuary, that way have gotten through Christmas and new years. They’re back to school on 7th so don’t want to take down the day before

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Nope, mine's staying up all through January which is a dismal month and it'll brighten up the home and be lovely to come home to after being out in the icy wind, rain ang shit.

I was told that my DF was dying on 10th December one year - that date is forever etched on my brain. He actually died on 10th January.

So it was a sad Christmas that year, but he was a very cheerful, jolly type, who’d never have wanted any future Christmassy saddened, so we have never allowed them to be.

New Year’s Day normally, a full front room clean ready for the start of back to normal

Nothing comes down before 12th night, but the decorations don’t go up until the week before Christmas. As a child the decorations went up close to Christmas Eve, maybe a week before at most, and came down on 12th night. There were 12th night parties amongst my family/friends.

IME timing of decorations has more to do with family traditions than religiosity.

Oops, I meant pp not OP.

For you 🙂

A family member went on holiday early today. They and their partner have two small DC (the eldest is seven), so they still put a tree etc up in mid December. They will take it down on their return next week.

Of course people have many reasons to take their trees down before twelfth night, but imo the trend for taking Christmas decorations down increasingly early goes hand in hand with the trend to put them up in November! Those that do are often - understandably - bored with them by then.

As a child in the 1970s, my parents didn't put the tree up till Christmas Eve, taking everything down on twelfth night, which was the same as many of their family/friends. By the 1980s they had started putting it up about a week before Christmas, a tradition we've stuck with.

Some say it's the 5th and some the 6th

For you - our family has different traditions.

This is fine, I'm talking about 12th night being a thing for some of us

Christmas starts on Dec 25th and lasts until Candlemas so taking the tree down on Feb 1st/2nd seems about right.

I can't take the tree down today! We've got family members (including young children) coming to stay on Sunday and we'll exchange presents. Then, on Monday we're walking a Christmas light trail and having tea with Christmas cake and a gingerbread house. Christmas is still in full swing.

Probably those silly buggers that put them up in August and are sick of the sight of them by now

Guests coming from 1st jan so all decs will stay up as they cover up a lot in an older recently moved in to house! Xx

I took mine down Xmas once purely because we were out boxing day. And then going away. It felt odd.

However it does usually come down just after boxing day. Due to work and other things. Ours takes us a good 10 hours to put everything up and pack away so have to do when we have a full spare day.

I love a brand new year mine is coming down on 27th .. christmas is done my tree has been up since second week in December.
I'm done with the malarkey.

Mine will come down in the next couple of days sour little one’s birthday is early January and we like to make it seem a bit separate to Christmas so nice to have a gap before balloons come out!

We usually take ours down on the evening of the 25th (we go skiiing on the 26th ) however it was up first of Dec as usual and as we just had a baby - no skiing this year - it will cone down first weekend in Jan (or the date we got through our letterbox) re: council pick up - we are in south London

We celebrate Christmas from Sinterklaas to Boxing Day.

We went on holiday on 23rd and I took it down before we left, go home tomorrow I’m so glad I done it now. Christmas is over after Christmas Day for me🤣🤣

Took mine off today ! Do it every year . Christmas is over so no point having it

I find it a bit sad when people take their decorations down much before 12th night. People argue that it doesn't affect me, but it's a bit like having someone bustling about clearing the table while you're halfway through your meal, or going to an evening party in which half the guests leave after an hour. Perhaps these party guests turned up at 3pm, and drank wine and watched TV whilst the host had a shower and did her hair and make-up? So by 8pm, they're ready to call it a night.