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 took mine down today but have left the cards up and the lights outside. We have to make some major changes to the room to get the tree in and I had a spare few hours today so treated the room to a major clean as well as a tidy up. The house feels and looks better for it. I may be sat here with the chocolate decorations next to me - one perk of taking it down early

our stuff goes up in mid November and will come down today

I normally wait till 12th Night but think I want to take the deforet

Decorations off the tree today which take ages to put away and just leave the lights on!

Down now- all traces of christmas gone.

Tree is outside the back garden, floors hoovered, cards in recycling bin. All decorations, lights, tableware etc up in the loft.

Bliss.

Hogmanay tonight so biggest celebration of the year. More baking has been done and the tree looks gorgeous ready for tonight and our visitors tomorrow.

Took it down today. Never start off a new year with a tree.

Plus toddler keeps launching himself at it, and it’s only half decorated (the top half) so he doesn’t eat the lights/baubles. It looked weird.

All packed away and nice and tidy again 😊

I took mine down today. I feel so much better for it!

Always 12th night.

Went up on the 23rd.

I took it down today as we are all back at work on the 2nd.
I needed two of us to get the decorations into the loft, take the tree outside and tidy up. I don't really want to be doing all that while cooking dinner in the evening.

Sitting here in the relative dark, next to the beautiful glow of my tree and enjoying it's last night of illumination.

I don't get it. Christmas lasts until The Feast of the Three Kings, or Epiphany, on the 6th of January. The 12 days of Christmas are just that - 12 days. Maybe if people didn't put decs up in Oct they wouldn't be taking them down on Xmas day!

Bookishteacher a lot of people don't celebrate the twelve days of christmas. Christmas has always just been two days to me - christmas day and boxing day, the two bank holidays. Then it's back to normal. As it happens, my tree is still up, but thats because of the lights, until I can afford a new lamp. It's certainly nothing to celebrate.

Bookishteacher - we don’t believe in the Three Kings stuff so the 12 days has no relevance to us. The Christmas tree goes up and down on dates of our choosing. This year the tree came down in the morning of New Years Eve as I wanted to clean up before last nights party and going back to work tomorrow.

Whether you believe in the three kings stuff or not, and whether you go back to work between Christmas and New Year or not I still find it odd to take stuff down before Jan 2nd because to me the Christmas season has always continued until new years day at least. We will probably take our stuff down tomorrow before I go back to work on wed.

Taking ours down today. If people get so sick of it, why the hell do they insist on putting it up so damn early?! I don't care about the 12th night thing. For me, NYE is the last bit of the festive season, so taking it down on NYD seems sensible.

If you read the thread you will know why and when people out their decorations up.

Everything including tree down yesterday. Dh back at work today, me back Wednesday and hideous four week zombie cold that just will not die is taking yet another bow .

Glad it's sorted.

Taking ours down today

I'm assuming all you dogmatic '12 days of Christmas'-ers are all Christian. Do you feel that it is entirely a Christian celebration and should only be celebrated by fellow Christians in the Christian way then?

Yule is a twelve day festival, beginning on the winter solstice on 21 December and ending today.

The festival lasted twelve days long before it was Christian.

I'm a Christian and 'the three kings stuff' is important to me but i have just finished putting the decs and tree away. We only put then up in mid December but I think once New Year arrives, I don't want the clutter.

Yule is a twelve day festival, beginning on the winter solstice on 21 December and ending today.
The festival lasted twelve days long before it was Christian.

Absolutely. We should remember they are separate festivals.

If you are celebrating Christmas you keep the decorations up until twelfth night.

If you were celebrating Yule, you will be taking the decorations down today. Of course you will have been wishing people a Happy Yuletide, not Happy Christmas. And sending Yule cards not Christmas cards. Won't you?

GladAllOver I have a friend who is pagan, and made her own "Happy Yuletide" cards this year

If you were celebrating Yule, you will be taking the decorations down today. Of course you will have been wishing people a Happy Yuletide, not Happy Christmas. And sending Yule cards not Christmas cards. Won't you?

And I guess christians wouldn't be saying " Happy Easter", they would presumably have another christian name fo rtheir own zombie festival?

Either the festival is in the name- or it isn't.

Easter ( Oestre) is a pagan name. Yet christians use it.

If you are nitpicking you can;t have it both ways.