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?

It does depend when you put up. If it’s been up since the start on December you probably would be a bit sick of it. If it went up on the 23rd then it’s only just gone up. Personally I’m of the “There are 12 days of Christmas brigade” so I think up later and down on the 6th (probably up for a couple of weeks - three at the max). I find MN Christmas threads fascinating - some people start so early it’s no wonder they run out of steam by the time Christmas arrives. I totally understand the joy of clearing up and clearing away when the decs come down, but I prefer to celebrate Christmas at Christmas rather than weeks before because I can’t wait for it to come. I think if you already sick of them you need to show some restraint and put them up later (not as soon as they start appearing in the shops).

Nearly put my tree up today. UPS guy delivered my 50% off Balsam Hill six footer. Instructions were to check the box before putting it away for next year but was sorely tempted to take down my on-loan-from-my mother tree, assemble the new one , decorate it and see if dh noticed the difference. But then couldn’t be arsed.

ScribblyGum which 6ft BH tree did you get? I got a 6ft Balsam BH Fir mid-november. Also had to check it all worked (was on a thread where someone else's was faulty and I didn't want to risk leaving it). It then took hours to rearrange the furniture and "fluff" the branches out, so it stayed up Still not tired of looking at it 6 weeks later

I didn’t realize so many considered important to keep the tree up to 12th night. I can’t imagine having it up into New Year and when we’re back at school and work. Would seem odd having a Christmas tree up when it’s no longer Christmas.

I've taken our trees down today, all decorations are away and both living rooms are back to normal. All that remains to show that Christmas happened is a Poinsettia and a couple of seasonal Yankee candles.

It's difficult to start celebrating Christmas very near to Christmas when your child's preschool arranged a Santa trip for 4th Dec. Then there's Christmas concerts at school and preschool on 7th and 8th. Christmas parties on 13th and 15th, then we did our own Santa trip on 16th (the train we go on doesn't do a trip after the penultimate weekend, so we can't go later).

There's build up throughout the whole month which is impossible to avoid. And we all enjoy the build up. I see nothing wrong with clearing the tree away before new year normality commences. The DC will have more room to play with their new toys once it's done too, so win win.

Mine is down! Living room has been all hoovered and cleaned and then dd (6) has put all of her Christmas toys in its place so I've gained no space

Still glad it's down though. All 8ft of it.

Mine came down today & it & all the decorations are back in the loft. I feel weirdly much better for it being gone. I like normality

Would seem odd having a Christmas tree up when it’s no longer Christmas.

But that's kind of the point. It still is Christmas. It will keep on being Christmas until the 6th January. So having a Christmas tree up DURING CHRISTMAS isn't odd at all.

But it isn’t Christmas now - Christmas Day was Monday, the next landmark day is New Years Eve.

I guess the 6th January applies if you are religious? I’m not so it doesn’t have any significance hence the tree can go up and down on any day.

Tree is down. Feels good.

Went food shopping today. After the tat fest since August, the whole lot has gone. Just huge piles of remaindered plastic to emphasise the waste.

Still a dark and miserable month or two before the lengthening daylight hours make a difference, so now is the time for light and sparkle, not late summer or autumn . So arse about face, but as everything is run by the indoors London types I suppose it is to be expected.

GoingRogue The Norway Spruce. It’s an unlit one so I didn’t take it all out of the box to build it, just peered in and had a check that it did look OK (it did).
Worried now that I should have got it all out and constructed it properly.

would seem odd having a Christmas tree up when it is no longer Christmas or even odder having it up in November and early December when Christmas hasn't even happened! 🤔😉

Yes! I find it really odd when people have trees up when it's not Christmas. That's why we don't put ours up til mid December and take it down in January because I still count new year as part of the Christmas holiday. It's still Christmas on tv and we are still eating the Christmas treats.

I'm relaxing now in prep for new year just knowing my house all fresh clean and tidy. I love being back to normal and will party harder on New Years because I know I don't have it all to do

@Lemtheoriginal that is the best solution yet to this debate

Next door neighbour called in earlier. Our houses are identical. She couldn't believe how much bigger ours looks now without the tree and ( tasteful of course! ) decorations.

Guaranteed she has gone home to take hers down

Ours has been up since November 2016. DH and I left it up 'for a laugh' We added Easter decorations at er....Easter.

Changed the decorations in November 2017. Can't wait to take it down in the New Year.

I've just put some more decorations on mine!

It seems to bear repeating that the 12 days of Christmas are 25th December - 5th January. Christmas Day is the 'first day of Christmas' in the famous carol.

I find it odd that people are celebrating Christmas without knowing when the festival actually is.

Take them down if you wish.

People are ignorant,that’s why. They think it’s Christmas when the shops have decorations. Christmas starts on December 25th and finishes on 6th Jan. The people taking their trees down on Boxing Day (or even Christmas Day evening as on this thread) are simply ignorant fools.

Celebrating Christmas isn’t centered on a tree so the timing of when it is up or not is irrelevant. Christmas means different things to different people and those events don’t just happen between 25 Dec and 6 Jan but they are still Christmas celebrations.

Juliesaway on the wine yet again I see. Have you ever considered that some people might just like to do things differently to you? I'm well aware of the 12 days of Christmas yet I prefer to do Christmas my way and not the way religious traditionalists tell me too. The only ignorant fool on here is you as you're not open minded enough to accept different ways to your own.