To not put a Christmas tree up?

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We have a 15 month old who inevitably will just destroy it daily, and a 15 year old who couldn't care less about a Christmas tree 😅🙈

AIBU to not put a tree up this year?

We will be away from from from the 22nd until 26th December anyway and me and DP are so busy with work and general family life and I honestly just CBA.

I am thinking it may be just as lovely to put the stair and mantle garlands up and some twinkly bits and just leave the tree until next year when the toddler will be older.

I wouldn’t bother if you’re not at home for actual Christmas Day. Put some other decorations up by all means but if you don’t want to and won’t be putting presents underneath it on Christmas Day then there’s no point.

She was pretty clear in the OP that it’s not important to her family either. If they were really keen, I expect OP would feel differently about it.

I know everyone on this thread has decided that OP is a blithering idiot who can’t tell that her teenage son is going to have a mental health crisis and / or be bullied into oblivion without a tree, but I’m going to assume the woman who is actually the mother to this boy knows him better than we do and is correct in her assessment that it’s not a hugely important tradition for him.

Oh wow I just checked my thread a few days late... thanks everyone 🤣🤣

@Ploctopus indeed 😂 you're right I can definitely confirm my teen is not going to spiral into depression over me deciding not to battle with an 8ft Christmas tree and 3 sets of lights ON MY OWN like I have done for at least the past 6 years.

Anyway my poor neglected children have a lovely table top, prelit, pot grown 3ft tree from Tesco which I picked up over the weekend along with the lights I previously said I was already putting up. Christmas is saved after all.

Oh and for everyone screaming "why don't you think about your children instead of yourself"

I do! Every waking moment of every day (and sometimes when I'm asleep too). Me and DP work around 95 hours a week between us so that our children can have a lovely home, lovely memories and lovely things 💖

And for Christmas we will be staying in a lodge at a farm in the countryside, all dressed up to the festive 9s, complete with hot tub, games console and on site Alpacas. You know... cus I wanted to do something nice for them all to remember for Christmas 😆🥰

I'm not doing the tree this year . I'm in my own and it's just more mess and work .