To still have my Christmas tree up?

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It’s just so nice to have some sparkle right now on these long cold nights.

There is some historical precedence re leaving it up till candlemass.....

Colleague thinks I’m ridiculous 😂

I took mine down at the end of the school Christmas holidays the same as usual. But dd bought a Christmas tree for her bedroom this year and only took it down today.

It would drive me mad to have one still up downstairs but everybody's different. If it makes you happy, keep it up.

I don't mean to sound harsh by saying that by the way. I mean it more in the sense of 'why is your colleague even bothering to raise her pulse over something so entirely unconnected with him/her.'

It wouldn't happen in my house (didn't have a tree at all this year!) but, if you want one, keep it. Nobody else's business.

YaNBU to WANT it up but YABU to actually have it up! I personally like my own Christmas tree to be associated just with the nice memories of advent and then the Christmas period itself. I don’t want the gloominess of January and back to work and freezing cold etc all muddled up with nicer memories of Christmas time with it’s festive music, food, telly, time off work.

If I’m going to be miserable in January, I wanna be PROPERLY miserable!m, goddammit!

Mine's still up and lit. It's not like there was a proper Christmas this year anyway. Tree, roast dinner, presents for kids. Yey.
None of that meaningless rubbish like seeing family, socialising or going to church.

Not like there's been anyone beyond thus household in my lounge for close to 12 months anyway.

Seriously, though, you could make the place nice with some winter greenery and fairy lights, and lots of glass or silvery type surfaces for the light to bounce off.

A Christmas tree is for Christmas, not just for life.

I've still got my fairy lights up and they aren't coming down for the forseeable!

Ours is still up, along with all the holly and cards! Often thought about leaving decorations up until Candlemas, but this year felt like the right time to try it. Normally a stickler for Epiphany but just didn't feel ready this year. It's a big tree, too - hardly shed a needle, but branches starting to droop slightly. Going to send a picture to the shop where we bought it and maybe they'll use it for marketing and give us a discount next year. DS will always remember the year he celebrated his late January birthday surrounded by festive paraphernalia. No regrets, but tried it now and probably won't repeat the experience next year. Looking forward to the big clear-away next Monday!

I missed the twinkle so bought those strings of fairy lights that you put up like a curtain, iykwim. I love them.

Get that tree down. 😆

Do what you like. We don't have a tree but lights are up all year round.

We took ours down on 14th or 15th January. I was going to keep it up until Candlemas but other family members were getting bored of it!

YANBU to keep it up for a bit of light in a difficult time!

I'm copying the queen and leaving ours up until the 6th of February 👸.

January is my least favourite month, so decided to leave it up as knew another lockdown would be coming. It's made this month more bearable and no one else is coming round anytime soon so it's just us who have to look at it. Whatever gets you through!

We were supposed to have a week in a holiday apartment over Christmas - three households meeting, all 14 days isolated beforehand. When the revised Christmas bubble rules were brought in, we couldn't meet and our booking was transferred to Easter.

The newly bought plastic Christmas tree, slimline to fit more easily in the carr and decorated with left over tinsel and baubles, sits and waits in the corner of the kitchen - with less and less hope - for Easter and the planned meeting to exchange Christmas presents.

Well whatever makes you happy, since we're in lockdown and no one else will be seeing it why not? I admit though that I'm pretty judgy about that in normal times.

Several houses in our neighbourhood have still got fairy type light decorations in their windows/porches which look pretty at night when I'm walking my dog. They're white lights and don't look specifically "Christmassy" so it works.

We still have our real tree up!! In the front window. Several walkers have commented on it cheering them up. So it will be staying!!
Until it is a beacon of twigs!!

@nhsblue - You have a lovely home😀

Yes, it’s dumb. It’s a Christmas tree. For Christmas.

Of course, I get that times are grim and lights are bright and cheerful.

So why not keep the lights and put them on something for appropriate for the spring that’s on its way?

It's your tree in your house. What other people think doesn't matter. You live there not them and it makes you happy.

You do what you like, but it would drive me mad. I love Christmas, but only at Christmas.

Mine is still up and is looking remarkably good its only been watered once since two weeks before xmas! I enjoy seeing the decs everyday.....will start to take things down over the next few weeks.

Tree and tinsel are down. I have kept some of the fairy lights up though, and ok maybe its a bit of a chic House Beautiful faux pas (#sorrynotsorry) but its cheering me up! And the light in the downstairs toilet has just broken so its only twinkly fairy lights in there for light and its actually really nice, lol

I took my fairy lights off the tree and hung them up. Place looks like a student flat but I don't care. Not like anyone is coming round. They'll probably come down around Easter or when evenings get a bit lighter.

I'm also still burning Xmas candles. I like the cinnamon-y smell and I'm not ready to switch to the spring-like scents yet.

Seems pointless for you to take it down OP. You may as well keep it up now. It will save you a job later on in the year.

You are not alone from what I see on my daily walks, and indeed some churches still have the crib on display. Though Jesus has grown to about a three year old in some of them.

I think it's up to you and it affects nobody else. I miss the lights. There's a house in our village that keeps the tree up until February, I love seeing it.