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!

Many people can be back at work on the 27th and that's the celebration gone. I enjoy going out for a meal and a few jars with my partner on NYE but it is back to normality for workers, it falls a bit nicer this year because boxing day is Friday but Christmas feels a distant past once you are back at work. My partner and I like travelling and use our leave to go overseas around the year, I don't want to waste it sat at home in the dead of winter, weather is far from guaranteed for walking to a country pub.

Not in our house. 😆But it could quite easily be November without them!

(Come to think of it, another reason why I need to keep Christmas in December is it's the only month I allow myself to drink Baileys. I'd be the size of a house otherwise. 😄)

It's definitely a generational thing because for me as a kid of the 80's, the hype you get now wasn't the same back then, you didn't see Xmas trees and xmas menus in pubs in August, shops clearing out all the garden stuff to replace with Christmas wonderlands in September!
Younger generations are getting caught in the commercial hype and getting Xmas decorations out the loft on Halloween! I mean you get to new years day now and then you get the Christmas catalogue adverts encouraging you start Christmas shopping for the next Christmas and pay it off in installments all year.

When you've got people that put Xmas stuff up as soon as it turns into Nov and then keep them up til second week of Jan, that is lunacy to many previous generations! You wouldn't celebrate Easter for over two months.

Your boxing day sounds just like my xmas eve. We do the same things, just on different days.

I'm tempted to put my tree up early in solidarity with the people OP despises, but it's not my style really. However, live and let live. If this bring them pleasure I say good for them.

Because they’re dimwits?

I agree and think it’s too early but understand that people can do what they want and when.
When my dd was little the tree would go up mid December and down often before NYE as she has SEN and it sent her into overdrive if it stayed up, so to regain normality I would take it down on the 27th.

Nowadays I am by myself and put it up first week of December and take it down on the 1st or 2nd.

At the risk of making myself sound ancient, I seem to remember the Christmas ads and the pre-Christmas buzz, shopping etc, in the 70s when I was a kid, generally not starting till actual December!

I am with you OP this doesn't make sense to me either. If you love Christmas that much that you put your tree up in November then why don't you keep it up for the whole Christmas period!

I mean each to their own and it doesn't bother me I am just curious. Ours goes up beginning of December and stays until the 2nd Jan normally. I like to be able to sit and enjoy the tree when I am off over Christmas to enjoy it as I don't get much of a chance in the run up as it's so busy!

For some people the Christmas period ends on Boxing Day

Because I absolutely love the run up to Christmas and want to be in that Christmas mode for as long as possible. But as soon as boxing day hits i am over it and want to clean the house by the 28th and ready for a fresh start in the NY. Even if we decorated the week before xmas I would be ready to move on by boxing day. But it works for me / our family and v amused that it would bother other people enough to make a thread abou it 🤣

IT should be the law that Christmas decorations are put up 12 days before Christmas and taken down 12 days afterwards. Or not put up at all.

There needs to be a major crackdown on Christmas and the commercial exploitation of religious holidays in general.

See, I'm the opposite. The run-up tends to be very stressful for me (though hopefully not this year as I've started planning earlier), too much happening all at once, and then Christmas Eve onwards is when I can finally relax, aside from Christmas dinner which DH does most of anyway. I just love being able to veg out between Boxing Day and New Year's (as mentioned up thread, I do realise not everyone gets to do this) and the decorations still being up is such an important part of the atmosphere of those days, for me.

I also seem to get a degree of relief from my SAD when the decs are up, the lights seem to have a significant therapeutic effect on me, so for that reason I keep the tree up as long as I can get away with it. I don't put it up til the beginning of December, though.

Oh Oona, how you do amuse us. 😂

It’s hell isn’t it? And it feels stressful whatever strategies you employ to make it less so. You just get sucked into it - especially in the couple of days before the 25th. Just thinking about it makes me feel a bit ill and brings home why some people get it all sorted (present buying etc) so early on.

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That’s what I meant by it being commercially driven and everything being moved forward. Everyone’s family is different but for me it’s the Christmas season until after New Year’s Day. The kids are still off school and people who I haven’t spent Christmas with visit at New Year. I agree that if I put the decorations up in November I would be really fed up of them by Boxing Day. I don’t really like the way the shops start so early and are clearing up before an event has actually happened.

Yes I had an experience last year where someone on the cul de sac we live on decided to put Xmas cards through everyone's door which then started the cycle of others feeling like they have to do it. So anyway I went out to buy cards around 16th Dec and there wasn't any anywhere, places like home bargains and B&Ms had been letting the Xmas stock run out and the shelves were threadbare. It did make it feel like Xmas was nearly over already.

It's also really annoying if you've got guests coming on December 28th, you realise you've run out of mince pies but you can't get any because the shops have moved on to Easter.

Absolutely! Once Christmas Eve is over (or sooner), that's it for the festive food. Frustrating for those of us who are still celebrating!

I would hazard a guess that’s because that’s what they want to do! We have 3 kids and 2 of them have birthdays late November/early December so we do ours mid November so it’s up by their birthdays. They love to have it up. And I take it down not on Boxing Day because I’m not home then but certainly before the kids go back to school as I like to be organised before they go!

Social media I’m guessing. All the reels about putting it up now. I have 2 hyper kids no chance in hell would I be putting mine up now. Start of dec for me or very end of November depending when the weekend falls

Dec's up on 1st sunday of Advent (this varies...it's sometimes the end of November, sometimes into December..)
Dec's down on NYE - not because I'm sick of them, but because I can't bear to be back at school/work with them still up - it makes me sad 😔
I like to start the NY fresh and clean.
My parents always kept them up til 12th night which has informed my views on when they come down.
We are still hosting on boxing day so thats far too soon for us

There will always be two categories of people, one being the category that has all the Xmas period off work, family parties and feasts everyday and then the other category is people that go back to work between Xmas, haven't got lots family or family gatherings and Christmas is over once you are back at work and there's no more celebrating. NYE is a different celebration for those of us in the second category because xmas finished when we went back to work.

It must depend on the job but when I worked between Christmas and New year then there were always some mince pies or Quality street, fairy lights strung up somewhere and some attempt at Christmas spirit.

For what it's worth my job used to be a logistical nightmare around the bank holidays but a lot of my colleagues seemed to be taking it easy and treating it like part of the Christmas season.