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?

I keep my tree up as long as it hasn't dropped so many needles it looks sad! Love coming home to it on grey days in late January after everyone else's has gone. Never mind the silly Twelfth Night rule

I'm like you Hepzibar
DD did tree 24th, and put up decorations; she goes home tomorrow so as far as i'm concerned I want the house clean and tidy so I can relax. DH won't like it but he doesn't do housework and would happily live in a total tip.

Mine was down this morning, in the spare bedroom and everything put away. I did put it up on 1st though.
Christmas cd has also been removed and replaced.
Now I am making space for the treadmill for the new year healthy eating/exercise plan

Tree down. I'm moving and want my house back so I can pack

We are still in full Christmas mode here. Tree will come down on the 2nd after the last of the celebrating. Then a full house clean in time for back to school/work.

My Christmas tree cost bloody €90 this year so it's staying up until twelfth night and then I'm going to try and cook it.

I'm buying a fancy plastic one and some room spray/pine loo cleaner next year.

Has everyone forgotten about the 12 Days of Christmas?!?!?!?! It begins on Christmas Day?!

Some of us don’t care about it Mother. In the general scheme of things it’s a pretty unimportant part of the festive season for a lot of people.

Up on Xmas Eve, down on 12th Night. They're Xmas decorations, not Advent decorations.

So actual Christmas is an unimportant part of Christmas? Can’t believe some of the stuff I read om here sometimes. People think they’re celebrating Christmas but they are in Advent. Just don’t get this. Christmas is over before Christmas starts! Bonkers.

Not to mention, christmas trees celebrate the pagan tradition of bringing greenery into the house. Nothing to do with the Christian celebration (which as I'm sure we all know) was tacked onto the existing celebration which centred around the winter solstice.

Couldn't give a shit myself, particularly as we know next to nothing about pagan celebrations, and nothing at all about whatever prior practise they were tacked onto.

Somewhere in the past, I daresay, is the ur evangelium of winter solstice celebrations, but Xmas will do for me.

Are you religious julie?

I was poorly at the start of November so I put mine up way too early. I was sick of the sight of them. Came down Christmas day evening. But I only have a 5 month old so it really makes no difference to him. Glad to see the back of it, didn't have any room for it anyway.

If you were poorly, you could have waited til
you were better before putting the tree up. No need for it to be up in November.
You’d have been able to enjoy the Christmas Tree (at Christmas) then....

Yet again another Mumsnet thread where some people don't seem to be able to understand that people do things differently to them. And, not only that, but it's OK to do things differently.

There are no laws to adhere to as to when trees be put up and taken down. This insistence that leaving it up until Twelfth Night is the ONLY way to do a tree is ridiculous, quite frankly.

I go back to work on 2nd. I want the house tidy and all of the children's new toys in permanent homes before that point. That means bye bye tree this weekend.

I saw a tree on the pavement last night so had a quiet weep on behalf of julie .

Silently look at Balsam Hill. Stunning.

If it was up to me there’d be a law against taking your tree down before 12th night. All that Christmastime celebration going to waste!

We're going away for a few days tomorrow and I hate coming back to a house that's been abandoned in the rush to leave.
Today I'll take down the indoor decorations but keep the wreath up.
Grand total of 9 days.

A law? As if prisons aren't overcrowded enough. You can have 'Christmastime celebration' without a tree believe it or not.

Clearly julie can only celebrate and have fun over 12 days. Not the rest of the year.
I've never read anything so ridiculous.

I'm astounded that people are so bothered what others do in their homes.

Christmas (in my eyes) is over and done now. We are back to work and I'm craving normality!

Sounds like prescribed fun to me. Bugger spontaneity or fun outside of the only 12 days of allowable celebrations!

I would have enough to do on Xmas eve with dinner prep let alone putting all the decorations up. Plus the build up is the neat part and I always put mine up on 1st Dec. I'd hate that!

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