Why do people put their Xmas trees etc up now then take them down Boxing Day

[Beon]

If they say that they are sick n tired of the sight of them or find it difficult to clean around them.

Don’t put the tree up early then!

Visual pollution 🤣🤣🤣🤣

By all the police we have with nothing to do....

or maybe oona is looking for work??

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I'm being sensitive?? 🤣🤣

You're being 'EXTRA'.

I'm well aware what the word 'novelty' means. I explained I don't put them up as a 'novelty' I put them up because I enjoy them.

I take them down because I choose to put up other decor that pleases me,

Absolutely, I know for some people everyday is another family party and indulgence on the cats between Xmas & New year but for many there's isn't a lot family left alive. I'll still enjoying watching Xmas telly whilst sat with my laptop working on those in between days though 😊

It sounded like you was having a pop at me for using the word novelty as though I was wrong to say it. I just re read the post you made and it was definitely arsey and defensive!

What are you on about?

you said surely the novelty wears off. I said I don't need them to be a 'novelty'

there was nothing arsey about my post.

AutumnCosy2025 · Yesterday 22:23

FlyMeSomewhere · Yesterday 20:54
I definitely don't, 1st Dec for me. But for those that do put them up 1st Nov it's got to be a novelty worn off by the time they've had them up nearly two months

My reply;
I don't need them to be a 'novelty'.
I put them up because I like them, I enjoy the light my traditional lights give off, I enjoy my decorations gathered over the years, the memories they bring back.
'Novelty' doesn't come into it.

I love the run up to Xmas and always have done so my tree will go up 29th/30th November and it's usually down and a good spring clean done on 28th/29th December so the house is all ready for a New Year.

It's each to their own and we don't know what's going on behind closed doors so I don't judge anyone

Look I like to see outside decorations but not from the beginning of November! Decorate the inside of your house as early as you want but the specialness of Christmas should be in December.

The lights can become a pain in the arse as well, when I took my tree down last year, it unblocked my view of my neighbours flashing lights around his car port which was annoying to see that in the corner of my every night until new year.

It also annoys me when people don't take them down! There's a number of houses on my estate whose icicle lights are up and swinging in the breeze all year until they get turned on again
Some people even leave Santa shaped lights stick to their houses all year round.

Yes stroppy! Lots of inverted comma use!

They are the sort of people who HAVE to be first with everything. Then, when it’s actually the appropriate time for something ,they get bored and look for the next thing.

It must be like living in one of those all-year-round Christmas shops.

helpplease4

That sounds loveky,getting the spring candle’s and lights out after you have put the tree away! What are they like please??

Genuine question because I'm curious: do you think it might be generational? Without being so rude as to ask your age I know a lot of MNers are round about their thirties, the generation after mine, and these past few years I've been noticing that the notion of when Christmas starts and finishes really does seem different among generations younger than my own. Just as no one you know holds on to their tree for long after Christmas, most of my friends and DH's still seem to be keeping theirs up until New Year's Day at least, or till twelfth night as we do. It's interesting to me because it suggests all sorts of social cues must have changed over the years. Not suggesting either side is 'better', I think we all just know how we personally prefer to celebrate it.

Social fucking media, advertising, people being sheep. It’s all a bit depressing isn’t it?! Last week I got an email from Marks & Spencer (I’m only in their mailing list to see when their jeans go on sale) proudly announcing that their Christmas ad is now available FFS. (Yes, grumpy old bugger here, but that’s because I’m ND so I question everything and don’t just blindly accept whatever bullshit is fed to me!)

Don’t be ridiculous… No one sustains Christmas excitement for two months solid. Having Christmas decorations up in early November is very weird in my opinion.

My spooky Halloween decs are up all november to cheer me up, but then most of it stays year round anyway

Yes, the type of people who put the bins out by 7am even though they aren’t collected until the next day! The ones who pay for priority boarding on flights because they can’t bear the thought of someone experiencing the airplane seat before them.

These smug and tedious idiots just HAVE to be first! It’s what they live for… Always living life in advance of the actual event.

Put them in stocks and have them pelted with putrid pumpkins left over from Halloween.

Oh I know, I caught a glimpse of the Aldi Christmas advert on tv today, plus an advert on the radio advertising a special offer for Ferrero Rochers at Morrison's "because it wouldn't be Christmas without them!" Yes it bloody would!

Also some people have to have something big to look forward to, whether it's a holiday, Christmas, Easter etc and have to prolong the celebrations for themselves & their kids as much as possible. I just don't understand getting excited about something that's months (or even weeks) away

I also blame the bloody Christmas adverts & Christmas music on tv & radio as soon as Halloween us over then stop abruptly on Christmas Day evening...then we'll hear Jess Glynne advertising a well known holiday company and the cycle starts again

Priority boarding is good (my friend introduced me to it earlier this year), you can be straight on the plane and sat down without all the fiddle faffer trundlebunnies fannying about with their hand luggage getting in the way. Once you are sat on the plane, you can get on with whatever you brought to entertain yourself until you reach your destination.

Anyone want to join me in a Keep Christmas Where it Belongs (December) campaign?

Maybe taking the decorations down on the 26th is a form of welcoming the fact that it is over and they can relax and wind down. Some people seem to be in an arms war when it comes to entertaining, always trying to be bigger and better than their peers or themselves last year, and that is not only exhausting but unsustainable. As an example on a larger scale, that is essentially what has happened with the Lewes bonfire and why they have to resort to stopping people coming into the town when it is on, it has got bigger and bigger over the years to the point they have reached the limits of what they can cope with.

Maybe taking the decorations down on the 26th is a form of welcoming the fact that it is over and they can relax and wind down.

How can it be over on Boxing Day? It’s the second day of Christmas! And how sad if people have children. My family absolutely loves the days between Christmas Day and new year’s. Boxing Day, we have an open house every year, with friends coming all day. The other days are country walks and pub lunches and just enjoying the festive season. Imagine going to a country pub 2 days after Christmas Day and it was all back to normal. How sad.

Sometimes, we’ve taken our trees down on the 30th, but that’s only if we go skiing for new year and don’t want to come back to (dead) Christmas in January.

And other people do their celebrating over a different period. Does no one on this thread work on Christmas Day or back to work after Christmas?

I don't bother with priority boarding, happy to wait in the departure lounge till the queue goes down. But I was given 'speedy boarding' on our last holiday as I'd paid for a larger cabin bag. That way you ensure you get space in the overhead locker. Had to leave the rest of the family behind in the normal queue!