Taking the tree down!

[Elsouth]

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?

My kids start agitating for the tree to go up from Halloween. I manage to hold them off till 1 Dec so by now I am seriously sick of the sight of it. It will be away before NYE...!

I quite like the idea of putting up all the other Xmas decs around the house and then putting the tree up week before, I might be able to get away with that next year. Less rearranging of furniture.

Ours is definitely coming down today.. dh’s birthday tomorrow, so we always take down all the Xmas decs and tree.. stuff the 12 days of Christmas... I want my lounge back!! [santa]

It’s all about your family and personal preference though isn’t it? Christmas for me starts on 1 December with panto, nativity, parties etc etc. I have no interest in New year so we do what fits in with us. All decorations have come down this morning except the tree which we will do over the coming days. It’s not about what’s right or wrong. It’s not a law you are breaking. It’s personal preference.

We stay with friends in the States for Thanksgiving and they, their neighbors and friends put their tree and decorations up the day after Thanksgiving.

Superwoman - def agree! We have 2 December bdays in our family, one before Xmas one after. We have strict rules re no combining bday/Xmas presents, no Xmas paper for wrapping bday presents. Pre Xmas bday celebration is always out and post Xmas one the decs are always down.

I know people who have bdays on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day ... tough!! I don’t know which I’d prefer, prob Xmas eve as people aren’t so jaded by then!

Blimey, I'm guessing I'm a bit older than some on here so ours stays up for as long as I can, so twelfth night. We have a real tree every year and we have all our decs on it since my two boys were babies - now 21, mostly same ones every year. The tree is one of the best parts of Christmas for me/us smells lovely as you walk in the room and I'm always a bit sad when we take it down - almost like a spikey pet! Not judging anyone at all just surprising to hear so many different thoughts. Each to their own

Ours went up on the last Friday in November (we like the house decorated by the 1 December). It usually comes down on twelfth night but this year it's coming down on 7 Jan, so a day late. We've had a bit of a shit couple of months so we're allowing ourselves one last night of prettiness/party stuff before it goes (we always have a twelfth night party with champagne, a 'Christmas' dinner etc). I will miss the decorations so much - although we do leave lots of warm white fairy lights draped everywhere until the evenings start to get lighter. We have a few strings all year round.

Christmas isn't over for ages yet - in fact it's only just begun

What @QuimJongUn said. Wholeheartedly agree!

I'm getting one of those light up blossom trees next year and I'll probably leave it up all year round as a light fixture. Will that make christmas 365 days long? That will also make some mumsnet posters sad apparently, as it won't be green and traditional enough.

Ours is coming down today. We had to put it where the cats giant scratching post/PlayStation goes and they are not impressed, scratching our brand new sofas in protest. We cba to keep telling them off so will take the tree down and put their post back in its rightful place.

Ha ha yes! Love that idea QuimJongUn!

If I let the festivities go on that long I'd be the size of my house!

Tree down today and off to my coffee shop this afternoon to take the decs down there

12th night here, love the decorations, and love celebrating for as long as is reasonably possible!!

Ours comes down 5/6 January.

I tend to find my Facebook friends who take the tree down on 26 December or thereabouts are the ones who put it up at the start of November as they 'luv Christmas'

My mother is taking hers down NOW. We offer to help but she won’t have it. Everything goes into bags and boxes and them up in the loft. My brother might get to help with that last part.

This has always happened for as long as I can remember. New Year is taken very seriously and she sees it as another separate celebration (and looking forward process).

This means that “on the nth day of Christmas...” has never seemed to make sense.

She also runs on a parallel Orthodox calendar so a week into January there’s a nod to another Christmas.

I'm getting itchy to take my decs down and when people say they've taken theirs down it's majorly setting my OCD off!! Arrggghhb

I'll do it about the 7th of January ... One year it stayed until the weekend before valentine's

But I have a plastic "half-tree" that hangs on the wall like a frame, as it it were coming through the wall, so it doesn't bother much.

I wish I could be that casual about them to be honest. I just see them as a job to do as we have a lot and two trees and so many ornamaents etc it takes all day and we have 10 month old rolling. around in the mix of it all. I will be able to relax once their down rather than spend entire week dreading doing it!

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Why bother with one tradition ie Christmas tree and yet disregard the other of removing tree 12th night. Seems as long as we are not inconvenience we will observe these things. Why bother with all the Christmas hype if it all has to end in 24 hours. Gave up trees to a. Save money b. nothing to do with Christmas really.

We have just taken ours down, but we are trying to sell our house at the moment. The tree this year was huge so made the sitting room look smaller.

I copied and pasted Gingervlys post about autism, as Im in the same boat as her regarding my DC.

thankyou for your poat btw, passthe styarmix

It's down here

Well my tree and all the decorations in the living room, dining room, kitchen and hallway were down and away for 07:35 this morning. By 8:30 I had dusted and polished and mopped and hovered.

It feels wonderful.