Is today too early?

[Toomuchstuffeverywhere]

To take Christmas trees down?

When do you do yours?

Being superstitious is very unlucky.

Mine came down on Boxing Day 😆

The queen used to keep hers up until 6th February which was the day that her father died.

Just done mine. It can't be up for the new year here!

Exactly this. We put up 2 weeks before & leave until 12th night as is tradition. I think it's a bit off, OP, calling it weird when traditionally that covers the 12 days of Xmas (& the Magi apparently.arrived on 12th night). We don't go back to school & work until the 8th.

I'd never call it weird when people put theirs up early because that's what they want. You do you,

12th night at the earliest, they went up on the 20th of December, three real trees and they're still looking good.

I didn't take the dining room tree down until Candlemass last year, I may do that again. It looks so beautiful in the dreary days of January.

That sounds lovely!

Our school is back on 2nd and I can't do school run stepping over tree baubles

When I was teaching, the tree would always come down before I went back to work. Now I'm retired, they stay up until the Epiphany.

Not till after new year for us! It's still the festive season until then. I think we'll take down on the 3rd when we start getting ready for going back to work.

Exactly what I think. Took mine down today, would normally leave it until tomorrow or day after but as we are all back to work / school / nursery on Tuesday and I may not "feel" like doing it tomorrow 🤣 I did it today. I don't want it up the rest of the week, time to get back to reality.

I take mine down on the 6th Jan but I also only put it up just before Christmas this year.

I took mine down on Thursday. To me Xmas is over on the 26th.
Most of my neighbours still have theirs up, it just looks weird to me. But I’m clearly the weird one 😂

The Nordmann firs don't look so bad.

@oakleaffy Nordmann here and it still looks great. It's been up since about 7th or 8th December. It will be up until Twelfth Night.

I am not superstitious, I just like to do the full length of Christmas.

My DM used to have a superstition that if you took any greenery inside for Christmas then you couldn't take it out again. No we didn't have a dead forest piled up in the corner. We had an open fire so holly and mistletoe and any other natural decorations we had made, like Yule logs, got put on the fire. The tree was artificial.

S'funny how that superstition was quietly dropped when she moved in to somewhere with no fires and gas central heating😊

Do you think that maybe the fact that you have got your decorations up nearly 6 weeks before Christmas might be a bit of a contributory factor in to why you find Christmas itself a bit flat?

Very much down on Boxing Day!

Can't stand having the decorations up for NY. New year clean house.

Ours came down Friday as it was the last room I had left to clean, but wanted to have a few days relaxing before I go back to work Tuesday

I find it depressing having it still up when going back to work, same with all the Christmas food (of which I'm down to a few pringles and some meringue balls)

Just this minute finished hoovering up the pine needles, DH is en-route to our storage locker with the decorations and I've just lit a nice fresh non-Christmas candle.

Next Saturday, 12th night.

For me it's too early, personally. Christmas only started on Christmas Day which is a week ago tomorrow and we don't take ours down until Epiphany on 6th January - the star on the top of the tree is there to guide the wise men to the baby Jesus and we're Christian so it would be strange for us to cut one of our major festivals short. We don't start decorating until the second Sunday in Advent so it's not all up for that long really, less than a month and we didn't finish decorating until the 22nd this year.

But that's personal to us and our faith. It's up to you when/if your tree goes up and comes down. If you aren't religious or traditional, you can set your own rules.

Mine stays up for Hogmanay and NYD family dinner. Everything comes down on the 2nd and I do a big clean

It's not bad luck to take them down early it's just wrong. And I won't be swayed from that. You can choose to be wrong and the sky won't fall and you're probably in the majority. But it's still only seven swans a-swimming today.

Also this is approximately the twenty billionth thread on this.

We usually take ours down around New Year's Day. Ready to make the house look sad and empty for the return to work the following day.

We’re away til tomorrow and so took everything down before we left on the 29th. Want to come home to the new season, not Xmas.