Taking the tree and decorations down on Boxing Day

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

I mean, what? It is still the Christmas / festive period right up to New Year's Day.

I don't understand why decorations are put up as early as the day after Halloween (which I have seen people squealing about this year like no other) and then taken down whilst it is actually still Christmas.

Mine aren't going up until Wednesday this week at the earliest and will come down 6 January as I'm away for a few days after New Year.

Ours will be down on the 31st.

That has never been a tradition in our family. Xmas is over by the new year.

If I wasn't away, I would take them down on 2 January.

I take them down NYE in case it's a late one that night and I can't be arsed to do it NYD. I am always happy I did it NYE when I wake up

Each to their own. My mum sometimes takes hers down on boxing day. Ours are usually down before New Year.

Ours are up until 12th night

I agree

I did always leave mine up until 12th night, but so few people do that now, it looks like you've just not got around to it!
These days I'll work around when kids go back to school.
We have a small house, so they went up yesterday and will def stay up until early Jan. We have people coming over for New Year so I want it to be twinkly then.

I do tend to think a lot of people put them up too early and then can't wait to take them down. If they shifted it by a week or two they would be up for the same amount of time and would cover the Xmas period a bit better. But whatever.....

Boxing Day is leftovers, movies and relax day
Last thing I'd want to do I start putting decorations away!
Each to their own.

My friend has to put hers away on Boxing Day as it's her sons birthday on the 29th

Mine go up around the 9th/10th and come down boxing day. Kids toys are also sorted boxing day morning and all bags of wrapping and card board boxes are taken to the tip. This then leaves the room feeling more spacious and gives up more floor space for the children to play with new toys and also gives more room for visitors.

12th night isn't a tradition, it's the religious timings.
I guess you can get into a whole debate about religion being just tradition.
Of course most people don't follow most of the religious teaching around Christmas anyway, so it really doesn't matter.

I usually take mine down Boxing Day or the 27th, they tend to go up a week before Christmas so not festive burn out for me, but lack of space, I live in a tiny house and the tree lives where my big lamp goes which I miss whilst the tree is up, and for the tree must be down before nye as I hate nye and like going into the ny with a clean tidy house.

I agree OP. Taking the tree down before New Year just seems wrong and I can't remember anyone doing it before the last couple of years.
For some reason people can't seem to wait to put the decorators up in November when Christmas hasn't started then can't wait to take them down during the Christmas period. I don't understand it
I don't see why working on the 27th should make any difference. I have often worked between Christmas and New Year but never taken the decorations down before New Year.

I might take them down on 28th.

Tree is going up today.

We are away from 28th to 2nd so I don't want to get back to a floor full of needles. Also, twelfth night is on a Friday and I'm back at work on 3rd so time is tight.

Not really a problem that should concern anyone else though is it.

What irritates me even more is when the extreme-premature-decorators accuse those of us who decorate on a reasonable date of hating Christmas or being grinches or scrooges, but then we're the ones who actually want to enjoy the full Christmas period whereas they're the ones who won't even let it last a full two days, and are calling an end to it before the second bank holiday is even over. How miserable.

Yes, yes! This absolutely this.
Im in a new job where all the Christmas trees and lights and stuff was vomited up all over installed in the last week of November. No doubt the place will be barren come next week as ‘Christmas is over’.

Because I’m a 12 days of Christmas person (only really start to feel festive after 9 Lessons and Carols at church on Sunday prior to Christmas) and prefer to leave decorating until later in December and have them up until 12th night, somehow I have been labelled the office Grinch. It has really pissed me off. I love Christmas but choose not to start celebrating in during advent.

I put mine up anytime between 1st-10th of December. They don’t come down until 12th night, so sometime in early January. Can’t stand the decorations coming down too early, it’s only once a year!

Completely agree OP. Someone in our road had their tree up on 1st Nov and I can bet they'll be taking it down on Boxing Day. I feel like people are so impatient these days - exacerbated by Covid and lockdown when Xmas was all we had to look forward to!

We have a real tree every year so we can't buy it too early anyway as it would die off. Ours goes up the nearest weekend date to the 13th Dec (DD's birthday is early Dec anyway so we always wait until after that,) and will come down on 2nd before DH goes back to work. We have family visiting all over Christmas this year so everything will be staying as is!

Up the weekend before, down Twelfth Night - what is so difficult to understand?!?!?!

What's so difficult to understand people are all different? What a weird attitude

A friend of mine who is an architect and lives in a minimalist styled show home behaves in this way. I spent Christmas with her one year and as her kids were unwrapping their presents she was right beside them with a bin liner gathering up the wrapping papers and them told them to take their presents to their rooms, immediately after they had opened them.

She doesn't put up her Xmas cards but stacks them in a box in the home office 'to remember to see if I sent them one or to write thank you notes,' although she has admitted in the past that she hates cards as 'they just cause clutter...'

Even her Xmas tree is strange and minimalist: A black metal triangle type thing - with nothing decorating it.

But I guess each to their own!

It was a joke! 😉

I used to put mine up about mid December then take down 2.01
DS has suspected autism, he loves the decorations then he loves his presents he does not love the decorations and presents out together for too long. So I pack everything away, including new toys the day after boxing day. I put decorations up early too because he asked for a tree and he never asks for anything. I'd put them up in July if it made him happy 😊

I haven't even put any up this year, it's just me at home now , the tree can't be seen from outside so I couldn't see the point 🤷‍♀️

When I was a child we kept decorations up until after new year but I didn’t like it. They always felt out of place when no one was celebrating Christmas anymore. Our decorations will be down before NYE.

Each to their own but I wouldn't take mine down on boxing day. I quite like looking at the tree lights and DS likes them.

I am back to work on the 3rd so will probably take them down on the 2nd.