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?

We always take the tree down on Boxing Day. It's nice but I usually like to get the sitting room back to normal. This year might be different though because after ten years in the house have finally found a spot for it where it doesn't get in the way so it might get a reprieve.

The 12 days of Christmas doesn’t have any significance for us so it’s not our timetable for taking the tree down. It’s partying and family life instead.

I too think it's a bit sad that people are so keen to move on to the next thing so quickly.

It’s nothing to do with moving on to the “next thing” (what is the next thing? There is no next thing, nothing replaces the tree until it goes back up next year) it’s about getting the sodding sparkly flashing space space suck out of the corner before the cat makes off up the stairs with it. It’s entirely pointless having it there after Christmas Day unless you like to look at it. Which many people don’t. There is nothing sad about it. They aren’t taking your tree down.

Not before new years eve surely? But we didn't put ours up til mid December.

Went up on 21st. Comes down Twelfth Night.

And mine hasn’t been up since August either it went up on Thursday.

I've had mine up since mid Nov (new tree and it's prelit so had to make sure it worked...then couldn't be bothered to take it back down again!).

Will prob take it all down on 1/2 Jan depending on what we do.

Ours comes down on New Years Day while our dinner cooks in the oven (per tradition always Boeuf Bourguignon with roast potatoes and parsnips plus a bunch of other veggies). It feels like a good way to start the New Year fresh. I used to wait until the 12th night but it seems out of place to me these days to have Christmas decorations still up when we are into a new year.

This is why we put the tree up only a few days before Christmas so we can enjoy it during the Christmas period rather than before.

We will probably take it down on new year's day. Taking down on Boxing day seems a bit miserable.

DD with SN. It comes down boxing day every year. She can't cope with it. After being awake for 38 hours now I'm ready to rip the damn thing down and tear it in to tiny bits. Cheers

Waaaaaaaaaay too early. What was the point in even putting it up?!

Ours comes down on the epiphany, as it should.

@DonnyAndVladSittingInATree

It’s nothing to do with moving on to the “next thing” (what is the next thing? There is no next thing, nothing replaces the tree until it goes back up next year) it’s about getting the sodding sparkly flashing space space suck out of the corner before the cat makes off up the stairs with it. It’s entirely pointless having it there after Christmas Day unless you like to look at it. Which many people don’t. There is nothing sad about it. They aren’t taking your tree down.

God you sound like a right misery! Why bother putting the tree up at all?!

For us, the tree is usually up for less than 2 weeks so you would put it up just before Christmas and take it down after new year. That seems to work well.

I can’t believe people take their tree down so soon ! There are 12 days of Christmas. Ours has not long gone up, and will come down on 12th night.

I agree, it does seem a bit joyless.

We play it by ear. Will be 31st this year as dh is working 1st but it only went up on Friday. Too busy/ill to do it before then.

our only went up Christmas eve! - its staying til 12th night

My tree only went up last week so will stay up until the 2nd or 3rd Jan. The timing of stuff on here I find so strange. Trees seem to go up and then get taken down so early.

Probably before New Year.

I'm normally a new year's Day remover but we are moving and decluttering.

We will probably take it down on new year's day. Taking down on Boxing day seems a bit miserable.

I like it because I've had the pleasure of the tree and then I've got a bigger sitting room - it's like that book with the old woman who has a tiny house and is told to put a series of animals in and then take them all out again; suddenly her house is plenty big enough

We are xmas entertaining various different guests through till 30th. No way is the tree coming down!
It stays till we go back to work in January so anything from 3rd to 6th depending how it falls (in Scotland so extra bank hol).

God you sound like a right misery! Why bother putting the tree up at all?! hmm

Thanks. I’d rather not have it at all tbh but my children like it up for Santa coming. Is that ok with you? Didn’t realise I needed to run my family’s personal preferences past you. How shall I do Easter? I was planning on firing some hard boiled eggs at them as they came downstairs on Easter Sunday? Sound good?

I’ve actually had the year from hell. I’m absolutely skint and my DCs Dad hasn’t bothered with them for 6 months so Christmas. Not a phone all never mind a Christmas present. So Christmas is a bit more sparse this year than it normally would be. So looking at a sodding tree for another 2 weeks to remind me of how shit Christmas was for all of us to tick some MNers “how to do xmas properly” list isn’t really top of my priorities.

I didn't know that Christmas was so heavily reliant on the presence of the tree. We didn't have one for two separate years because we couldn't be doing with a tree plus a toddler.
Does that mean those two Christmasses didn't count?