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!

Don't even get me started on the people who drag their kids around the shops and supermarkets boxing day

So don't invite them over?

Maybe they get annoyed because you're doing it later than them 🤷🏽‍♀️

Our goes up as early as DD can convince DH to put it up, which isn't until December.

It comes down as soon after Christmas as we can manage, as we don't have time by new years as work etc goes back and the crazy continues.

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No but you questioned why they make those choices because you can't understand their reasoning.

Boxing day is not later people have more then one family which is why people celebrate Christmas day and boxing day

I take mine down the day after boxing day but I don't put it up until well into December either. Why do you care so much? I genuinely don't care what other people do with their Christmas trees. These posts confuse me every year.

Later than them

Do they get annoyed and take it as a personal slight because your tree isn't up in November?

I do think Christmas fatigue is a real thing.

Op I too think what????when my neighbor put her tree up in November (before USA thanksgiving a big holiday unto itself) and than tree down on 12/26 and complained she was sick of it. Do I care? Not really but I notice.

there seems to be a fevered pitch here in the USA for Christmas decor. Stores like Homegoods and TJMaxx and Marshall’s (the trifecta) which have uk equivalents are so very overstocked with Christmas and it’s all big in size and big in volume. Not one “perfect for me” nutcracker but rather 200. Hundreds of rolls of gift wrap already. All this long before Halloween/ 10/31. Ornaments and trees of every style and alot of pink this year.
I put my tree up late November preferably after thanksgiving but since it’s late this year my tree will be up prior to the holiday. I leave it up until New Year’s Day or few days after. It does seem Christmas is over by then everywhere you look and it’s only still Christmas in your home if you have the tree up.

if I didnt host the holiday/ work FT out of my home/ have 2 dc and one elderly parent I would wait until Dec 1but alas it’s too much to do in too little time and while everyone enjoys it I feel I get little down time to enjoy it so earlier/ longer is better.

consumerism has just about ruined Christmas I fear. I’m hoping we get a pendulum swing back to simpler more seasonal and less prefabricated and now needs to be stored
stuff.

Probably because they enjoy the build up to Christmas more than being festive after Christmas.

@AliceTheCamelHasTheHumpSoGoAliceGoBomBomBom

No, I replied to a poster saying you have no idea of what goes on other lives. The context of my reply was just because someone works or divorced it's not a given the tree has to come down on a day later. And if you don't know anyone who takes a tree down on boxing day doesn't mean you don't know anyone who has different circumstances.

Ours always went up too late for my liking- 17-19 Dec.
Mine goes up around 10th but comes down on nyday. I'm usually back in work by 6th, so it's depressing.
Dd would like it up in November.

I am looking forward to when the kids have left home and I don't need to bother at all. I just don't see the point. None of us are religious. What are we decorating for? If we're doing it properly and celebrating the return of the light, then I'll bring in branches.

Why do you care so much? I genuinely don't care what other people do with their Christmas trees. These posts confuse me every year.

Well you clearly care about why others care about when you take your tree down...

Makes no sense to.me but each to their own.

Not later then them we are both celebrating Christmas day separately and then im continuing it on boxing day as that is still Christmas they choose to come round as they want to see us over Christmas so I make it christmassy and then they announce how Christmas is over. I have no issue with people putting their tree up whenever they like i have an issue with people taking it down on Christmas day and boxing day and announcing Christmas is over. When they have just spent nearly 2 months telling everyone how they can't wait for Christmas

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That's all normal, not sure why you have to pack away the tree a day or so after because of those things though.

And I said because different people make different choices.

It's also very arrogant to assume that the way you choose to do your own Christmas is 'normal' and others aren't.

Well, that is a good reason. The OP is asking a quite reasonable question...
On Thursday I was walking down the street where there was a busker singing 'Feliz navidad'.

I loved the gradual build up when I was a child, one of the things I remember was when the bottle tops on our milk delivery changed from plain to ones with a print of holly leaves on. It meant Christmas was on its way, then cards and parcels began to arrive and the long agonising wait for the big day was underway. Tree went up a week before and I would be spell bound by the lights. I know that things aren't like that anymore and it is going to be full on now for nearly two months

Tell them to come over before Christmas then.

Problem solved.

I wouldn't have someone in my home pissing me off while I'm still in celebration mode.

I decorate at the start of December (sometimes the last Sunday in November at the start of advent if we’re free), and take it down around 3/4 January.

I like still having the tree up for new year, and can’t be bothered taking it down between Christmas and new year - they are designated lazy days in our house, and sorting out Christmas decs and cleaning would get in the way of that. It wouldn’t feel right working our way through the leftovers and Christmas chocs in a non-festive house. 😂 After new year is fresh start, clean house, healthy eating, regular exercise etc.

So I find it odd that people go early, and take it down straight after Christmas. But different strokes for different folks and all that. My mum did see one last week, which seems ridiculously early to me, but you never know if someone has a specific reason - terminally ill family member, someone in the forces who won’t be around etc.

Just a symptom of more individualistic times.

Almost 8 weeks of lookng at the tree would really do my head in, I like it to be up for a short time and really enjoy looking at it rather than for it to start to feel like part of the furniture.

I do think Christmas fatigue is a real thing

Yep. I sometimes do what the OP seems to find utterly baffling. It's just because I get excited in the run up to Christmas and then when it's done I am fed up of it. I hardly think that means I need to see a psychiatrist as the OP seems to suggest.

This tedious topic comes up every damn year and it's so tiresome.

People are different to you. Big fcking deal. If you havent learnt this after living on this planet for x amount of years then I find THAT baffling.

But everyone is working earlier this is why we do Christmas day and boxing day. All I ask for is 2 days to celebrate Christmas with everyone and I would appreciate if people want to be involved in that to still be festive and ready to celebrate Christmas. Not taking decorations down. Putting away their Christmas clothes and saying Christmas is over.

It's also very arrogant to assume that the way you choose to do your own Christmas is 'normal' and others aren't.

This is the point I am making. What is a normal Christmas? What is an abnormal Christmas?