Anyone else taking their tree down today?

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It's been a blast, but I feel ready to de-Christmas earlier than usual this year. I'm over it 🤪

My tree is down on the 5th but I usually find somewhere to drape my fairy lights and keep them going throughout January and February...I know this is considered naff but I don't care, they cheer me up in the dark months!

It's only just gone up, it's staying up til New Year so I can enjoy it.

Taking it down on the 2nd (with a hangover) marks the end of the holiday for us.

No. It’s only been up 10 days.

😱! I love the nice cheerful lights etc. - ours won’t come down until 6th January. It went up on about the 10th Dec, earlier than usual because Gdcs were staying and loved decorating it.

Yep, having the big clean up today so I don't have to clean in the new year

No tree this year. Enormous house palm, so we put baubles on that 😁

I wouldn’t go quite that far, but apparently it’s officially Ok to leave them up until Candlemas, which is 2nd February. I only found that out a year or two ago.

I leave one set of warm white lights up all year on a huge house plant - more of a mini tree really. Started a few years ago when I’d fully intended to take them down when the clocks changed at the end of March. But I never did.

Ours has been up since the end of Nov and may not come down until Candlemas in Feb.
I absolutely love Christmas decorations so I'm in no rush to remove them but the rest of the house would be quite happy if they were down by the time school goes back on the 8th Jan.
We'll see, but definitely not anytime this week.

It’s down and outside waiting for collection. It went up on the 15th but we go away tomorrow so want my house back to normal as we come back the evening before we all go back to work/school.

Absolutely not. It went up on 16th and it is coming down on 12th night. If I went round someone’s house today and there was no sign of Christmas I would find it really weird.

Mine will come down on New Year's Eve. I like a fresh start for the new year.

I will keep the fairy lights up on the masterpiece though.

No, has to be up for NYD! I put it up on 11th

Mine goes up at the start of December. First full day so I can give the house a deep clean first and a bit of a clear out.

Im normally New Years Day person for packing it all away. New year, fresh start. However, like getting it out, once it’s away I want to give the house a full clean.

Today my school goes back on the 2nd, normally I have a day or 2 after New Years Day - so it will probably stay up to Saturday 6th. Don’t want to spend my last day of Christmas holidays cleaning - I’ll be frantically trying to find my work lanyard for one thing.

Before I was a teacher and didn’t have the holidays, I was exactly the same. New Years Day or the nearest whole day (without work) to the 6th. I love the decorations! Though my not big house certainly feels her once why’re down .

Not a chance

No way that I'm short-changing myself on the Twelve Days of Christmas, that we've only just begun.

(Do however get why those with a family birthday in the household decide to take down before the Christmas season properly ends)

I didn't put one up!

I'm doing mine tomorrow - DP is at work on Thursday and I'm having a c-section Friday so need it all packed away

No, I put my tree up on Christmas Eve!
And take it down on Twelfth Night.

When the DC were at home, we put it up a little earlier, perhaps around the 20th when they broke up from school. The anticipation as the presents gradually amassed around the tree was a big part of it when they were young.

I'm taking mine down tomorrow because for me Christmas is over then and I do a big clean , tidy and sort out , plus I don't like to have it up at new year at all

Definitely not, ours stays up till 12th night, it's so beautiful and has only been up a couple of weeks. Christmas has only just begun.

I’ll take ours down before I go back to work on the 4th Jan. I often take it down earlier - New Years Day or the 2nd. Never before NYE! Christmas lasts until the end of the year for me.

@MsGoodenough
The even older tradition is for decorations to stay up until Candlemas (2nd Feb), which is the official end of the Christmas season. But yes, that after that it’s bad luck to leave your greenery up!

Robert Hedrick wrote a poem about it, published in 1648:

CEREMONY UPON CANDLEMAS EVE

Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and misletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all
Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas hall;
That so the superstitious find
No one least branch there left behind;
For look, how many leaves there be
Neglected there, maids, trust to me,
So many goblins you shall see.

More info about the tradition here

First thing I did this morning! Lounge feels clean and tidy and has given me the motivation to tackle the rest of the house, it's in need of a major clear out.

Ours is down and processed for next year's ornaments

Slice the trunk into thin rounds and store them and then next December let the kids paint for next year's ornaments

Between the Needles making me feel incredibly itchy if I touch them to chasing various cats and a dog out if it we are all over the tree
Plus house is small so dds have more space to play with their toys

Every year on mn people are itching to get the tree down on Boxing Day. I just can’t understand it. Even when I had to work in retail and it was a hellish day I’d still come home and relax by the tree, read, eat nice food… chill with family. I just can’t understand wanting it all to be “back to normal” on 26th or 27th. Only exception is people going away on holiday now till after the new year.

You're someone after my own heart!