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.. to take the Christmas tree down?

49 replies

jarviscockerslover · 28/12/2017 06:29

I live in a tiny villa and it was taking up a lot of space. Christmas is over the trees been up for two weeks now am I being unreasonable to take it down? My partner thinks I ought to wait till New Year but to me Christmas is finished decorations can go!!

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Lucisky · 28/12/2017 08:25

I always take mine down on new years eve, and have a good clean round as well. It's like a fresh start to the new year. I hate seeing christmas stuff everywhere after Jan. 1st. When I was a kid, the tree etc. didn't go up until 22nd/23rd dec, so it made sense to leave it until Jan 6th., but I put everything up at the beginning of december and take it down at the end.
Yes, take your tree down if you want to op.

Ijustlovefood · 28/12/2017 08:25

We all put the Xmas tree up too early and it really ruins it. As a result we want to take it down now but really it is still Christmas, it's only because we've been at it since end of November for some that we are sick of it and now just want it down done and dusted.

BusyBeez99 · 28/12/2017 08:25

I can't wait to take it down. Hoping to do on NYE so start the new year fresh and tidy. DH loves Christmas so he won't entertain it yet

Sparklingbrook · 28/12/2017 08:28

There's a 14 page thread about this that has been going for days. julies is on there proposing it be against the law to take the tree down. Grin

SprogletsMum · 28/12/2017 08:34

My tree came down yesterday. The rest of the decorations can stay for a little while but the tree had been taking up space in my house for long enough.

UrgentScurryfunge · 28/12/2017 08:36

Christmas begins on the 25th December and lasts for 12 days.
The time before that is Advent. Religiously it's the period of 4 Sundays before Christmas so could start in late November into early December (and also a time of reflection). Secularly it's treated as 1st-24th December- hence the timing and name of Advent calendars.

I favour keeping the decorations and lights up for the 12 days of Christmas as the world looks so bleak, dark and miserable by the 7th January when it's all gone and you're just left with short dull days and long nights. (It's an older Yule tradition kept into Christmas).
It's a bit like declaring that Easter starts on Shrove Tuesday and melting down excess Easter Eggs by Good Friday Confused
I blame retail for sneaking Christmas stock into shops from August bank holiday then exploding in to full on Christmas/ Consumermas mode the moment Halloween has passed for resetting Christmas too prematurely.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 28/12/2017 08:41

Outs came down yesterday. I adore Christmas but to me it's the run up and the actual day that are special. Once it's over I like to start fresh.

Also I'm an atheist. I celebrate cultural Christmas not religious christnas so 12th night means nothing to me.

Anniegetyourgun · 28/12/2017 08:43

My mother liked Christmas so much that she wouldn't take the decorations down until 7th Jan (her reasoning being that the 6th was still Christmas). To be fair, DF used to insist on a major cleaning operation (including attic and under-stairs cupboard) usually commenced on 24th December, before he'd allow any decorating miserable sod so we didn't have a tree up for that long. Just as well, as it was always a large real one and of course shed needles like the very devil. We got the authentic forest floor experience every time we walked into the hallway. No leaving your shoes at the front door chez nous.

As a complete contrast, DS and I ducked the tidying up phase this year by not putting up a tree in the first place. Everywhere else we visited was nice and sparkly, and we weren't expecting any visitors ourselves. It seemed enough.

ClaryFray · 28/12/2017 08:44

Mine came down yesterday. DP also moaned. However he's a twat.

Tiddlywinks63 · 28/12/2017 08:55

Dh is away tomorrow so mine's coming down the minute his car leaves 😊
Then I can get the house cleaned and tidied and I will enjoy a quiet weekend!

x2boys · 28/12/2017 09:04

Do what you want but did you have to start another thread there have been many over the past few days could you not just have commented on one of them? I think this is just a mumsnet phenomena tbh.

HeteronormativeHaybales · 28/12/2017 09:11

Of course people can do whatever they like with their trees. But I struggle to understand putting it up at the beginning of Dec or even in Nov and then taking it down on Boxing Day because you've had enough of it/it's in the way/you want the space back. It seems a bit like getting Christmas the wrong way round somehow. It drains it of any symbolism and makes it into another thing to be done.

HeteronormativeHaybales · 28/12/2017 09:12

Yes yes to Scurryfunge re Easter ^^

x2boys · 28/12/2017 09:13

Have to agree Hetero plus we haven't had new years eve yet oh well each to their ownHmm

HeteronormativeHaybales · 28/12/2017 09:14

Our tree was felled on the 22nd and went up on the 23rd. (We don't have a freshly felled tree every year, it was just one needed gone). It will stay until 12th Night. Partly because I like to observe the liturgical season of Christmas, partly because I like to take a bit of Christmas into the new year, as its passing always makes me sad.

GrooovyLass · 28/12/2017 09:16

Can't wait to take mine down but I'm too poorly. I'm back at work tomorrow so it'll be Monday now I think.

x2boys · 28/12/2017 09:16

Mine went up a week ago so the 21st I find it rather more bizarre people that put it up in November tbh.

happymummy12345 · 28/12/2017 09:16

I love this time of year and would never take mine down until January 6th. Even then I'm sad about doing it. And it always goes up the 1st weekend of December

jaseyraex · 28/12/2017 09:25

Took our tree and decorations down yesterday! Needed the space to sort out the masses of junk the kids acquired. House is back to it's normal self and it's great Grin

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jarviscockerslover · 28/12/2017 09:35

I put my tree up on 15th December so it's not that it's been up for ages. Also live in Australia so the bleak dark January is really not affecting me!
Love the way people assume you spend all day and night on MN and should know the ins and out of every single thread and dare to duplicate a topic Confused

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NataliaOsipova · 28/12/2017 09:38

But I struggle to understand putting it up at the beginning of Dec or even in Nov and then taking it down on Boxing Day because you've had enough of it

I do too... Seems a very odd way round to do things. I always think of the period between Christmas and new year very much as "Christmas" and like the tree up for NYE and the 1 Jan. Each to her own, I suppose!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 28/12/2017 09:39

Oh well Australia is different. You don't need cosy twinkling lights looking all homely at this time of year.

I think of Christmas as over after New Years Eve, so I'll probably take ours down in the 1st or 2nd.

noeffingidea · 28/12/2017 10:28

I struggle to understand how some people struggle to understand that people interpret and celebrate christmas in different ways.

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