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Taking the tree down!

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Elsouth · 25/12/2017 19:28

Is it wrong to consider taking the tree down tomorrow? When is everyone else doing it?? I think last year I did it just after Boxing Day. As the kids get older the presents seem to get bigger and I end up having to rearrange the whole room. Need that tree gone. Does that make me a grinch?

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coconutnut · 25/12/2017 23:10

I'd love to get the tree down but dh isn't back from work until 28th (works offshore) and we're celebrating then

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 25/12/2017 23:10

No, Donny, mine comes down on the 6th.

Sparklingbrook · 25/12/2017 23:11

Tell him there was some sort of Christmas tree related catastrophe coconutnut meaning it had to come down, sadly. Sad

LordSugarWillSeeYouNow · 25/12/2017 23:13

I'm loving my tree this year and have the space, it's normally down Boxing Day/27th but I'm taking it down NYE.

Can't wait to return to some sort of normality.
I have OCD and really struggle with all of the changes in the house around Christmas.
That being said, I have had a lovely day, been spoilt rotten and my dc had everything they wanted and more.

I'm just not one for going all out in the home, it's so much easier when returning back to normal :)

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 25/12/2017 23:14

So whose tree were you talking about char?

juliesaway · 25/12/2017 23:14

People put their trees up way too early in advent . Christmas only started yesterday and you’re taking your tree down?! Bonkers There is another 11 days of Christmas to enjoy!!!

Sparklingbrook · 25/12/2017 23:16

Well I am guessing if you don't have to go back to work tomorrow or the 27th there is more enjoying to be had, but it's not reliant on their being a decorated tree in the house.

PasstheStarmix · 25/12/2017 23:16

My advent calendar starts at 1st Dec and that's when I put my tree up and it ends on 24th. And then it's Christmas and then tree can come down any time after it.

Sparklingbrook · 25/12/2017 23:18

*there. I blame the Wine

PasstheStarmix · 25/12/2017 23:18

After Christmas day Christmas is over and I don't see the point after that really...

YorkshireLurker · 25/12/2017 23:21

I hosted Xmas but didn't even put decorations or a tree up Blush

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 25/12/2017 23:23

I'm talking about the trees of people who think Christmas is over as soon as the presents are unwrapped.

As I said before.

this is what a very patient teacher must feel like

Sparklingbrook · 25/12/2017 23:23

Oh no Yorkshire I am afraid your Christmas didn't count as proper then. Sorry.
Go out tomorrow, buy a tree in the sales and do it all again.

Fundays12 · 25/12/2017 23:23

I like mine down before new year. I normally take it down around the 27th if 28th and get my house sorted did new year.

PasstheStarmix · 25/12/2017 23:23

Whoah what a rebel yorkshire Shock

PassiveAgressiveQueen · 25/12/2017 23:28

I dislike taking it down on boxing day, to me it says all this has just been about presents you got them so end of game.

CountFosco · 25/12/2017 23:31

Only finished putting up decorations last night so although I'll be tidying up the piles of presents the tree will not come down until the New Year. We have a birthday and Hogmanay still to celebrate, we need the decorations!

Agree with PPs, baring SN then if you want to take the tree down tomorrow then you had it up too early. The next week or two are the best bits, all the relaxed fun of the Christmas period and none of the organisational stress.

Mrscog · 25/12/2017 23:31

Passthestarmix - your interpretation is different to the Christian one. Advent is for preparation, then Christmas begins on 25th for 12 days.

Nothing wrong with the way you do it of course, but it explains why people have such polarised views.

CountFosco · 25/12/2017 23:32

barring

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 25/12/2017 23:32

I'm talking about the trees of people who think Christmas is over as soon as the presents are unwrapped.

Oh. I don’t think there are any of those people on this thread.

ClaryFray · 25/12/2017 23:33

Usually the 27th but working so prob 28th.

A tree without presents is pants to look at imo.

Goldfishshoals · 25/12/2017 23:33

You can't compare Easter to Christmas. You don't get the interminable build up, relentless pressure, repetitive songs etc. I'm not surprised people want to take their trees down early if they hsve been up for a month.

I guess that's what I was musing on, what is it about Christmas that makes people start it earlier and earlier but then want it over earlier, so the whole thing had shifted over time, in a way that doesn't happen to other holidays.

QueenThisTime · 25/12/2017 23:33

God I’d love to take ours down, it’s a messy needle flinging bastard. Normally keep it until 5 jan and by then I’m desperate for the place to be neat and tidy again. If you have any excuse, go for it!

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 25/12/2017 23:34

Agree with PPs, baring SN then if you want to take the tree down tomorrow then you had it up too early.

4 days before Christmas is too early for a Christmas tree?

AmysTiara · 25/12/2017 23:35

Anytime between 1st and 6th Jan. Depends when i can face it.

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