How long do you keep your xmas tree up after xmas day is over?

[Deja Q]

As a kid, I always begged mum and dad to keep it up for weeks on end (by mid-January it went down anyway.)

I'd mine put up in early November and I put it up just to do something to take my mind away from reality.

I just took it down.


When did you put yours up, is it still up, and most of all when do you plan on taking it down?

(the tree only, the outside lights, as we all know, always stay up 24/7/365 :evilgrin: )

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. No outside lights here...

:rofl: We usually put up holly garland on the mailbox post and light posts and a wreath on the door. But there are people nearby that leave their freakin' lights up perpetually. :P

My husband likes putting the tree up the day after Thanksgiving and taking it down New Year's Eve. I like putting the tree up when I feel like it (which is usually about one to two weeks before Christmas) and taking it down the day after Christmas. It's still up, so Hubby's gonna win this one. :rofl:

[Mutley]

2. The tree is still up here

My sister and BIL have a New Year's party every year, and they always leave their tree up until after that.

[seaglass]

3. We celebrate Christmas 2X, the second time is a week after

the first so the tree usually comes down on New Year's Day.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. It'll come down Jan 1.

I used to take them down earlier, but the artificial tree seems safe enough to wait a week. The real trees seemed like a fire hazard.

[Coventina]

5. We always left ours up until Jan 6, Epiphany.

The 12th and final day of Christmas.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I wear Christmas themed jewelry until 12th night too.

Every year, at least one stranger points out that Christmas is over and I tell him/her that it isn't over until the Epiphany. When the stranger returns a blank stare, I say, "Do you know the twelve days of Christmas song? That's what it's about."

[Coventina]

19. I play my Christmas music until 12th night as well.

I find it kind of sad how much cultural heritage has been lost in modern times.

I remember in high school having a SERIOUS argument with a friend of mine who INSISTED the 12 days of Christmas were BEFORE Dec. 25th.

:eyes:

[NMDemDist2]

6. i'm taking mine down today I think

it's too damned cold to go turn the garden

:shrug:

[NC_Nurse]

7. I get mine down by Jan 1.

Fresh start and all....:-)

[Mz Pip]

8. Jan 1

I take it down while everyone else is watching football. Gives me something to do. :-)

Mz Pip
:dem:

[dolo amber]

10. Usually Jan 2

I mean, NYD is still celebraty, y'know. :thumbsup:

[dropkickpa]

11. Put it up around Dec 1st, take it down

When I get sick of looking at the damn thing!

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. It stays up until Christmas is over, January 6. Christmas is 12 days long.

Though I really like the tree, and it's artificial, so mine last year stayed up until about Ash Wednesday.

[Burma Jones]

13. MLK Day Weekend

During NFL Playoff Games......

[mntleo2]

14. One Year ...

...we kept our Christmas tree up until after Easter. We were so busy just surviving, we just couldn't get around to taking it down. By the time we did take it down, there was hanging on it some Valentine Hearts, paper Easter Eggs with sparklies, some cheeps (pink bunnies AND the chickies), a couple of MLK silhouettes the kids made in school, and even our cat's catnip mouse stash neatly "buried" under it..

We joked about just keeping up for a Mother's Day Tree, Father's Day Tree, a 4th of July Tree, and a Labor Day Tree. WE actually considered keeping it up until we could just take off all those " non-Christmas" decorations and not have to go through the agony of putting another one up all over again. The funniest part IMO was that originally it was a "Charlie Brown Tree" and it stayed green until one day we had to move it, and every single needle fell off in a tidy pile all around it leaving the ornaments sitting on bare branches.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Cat In Seattle

[Arugula Latte]

15. It went bye bye yesterday.

I'm soooo sick of Xmas. x(

[leftofthedial]

16. Christmas Eve until January 6

[BarenakedLady]

17. January 1st

Since it was put up right after Thanksgiving, I'm usually sick of looking at it by then.

[SPKrazy]

27. Grrrrrrrr!

I'm sick of looking at it!


But it will be up until Jan 6, Epiphany

blah blah blah

I want a palm tree that I can just take the decorations off and leave up all year long until it grows through the ceiling and then put in a dome skylight over the top so it can keep growing.

:rofl:

[Rosemary2205]

18. Jan 6th. - Epiphany

[TheCentepedeShoes]

20. Our decorations are coming down tomorrow

Didn't feel like it today. It's yucky outside and I need to move the car to get at the boxes for the Xmas junk. Plus I'm lazy.

[femmocrat]

21. Jan. 1

Enough already.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Until it looks like ornaments will fall off if we don't take it down.

Of course, we don't keep it lit that whole time. :hi:

[wain]

23. In the first years of our marriage, until it became a fire hazard!

The Christmas tree filled up a sparsely furnished living room. The bigger the tree the better.
:rofl:


Now, I put the tree up about a week after Thanksgiving and take it down the first week of January.
:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Around February 1st, I threaten to take the tree down myself

if Mr GoG doesn't.

He doesn't like the way I pack things up; so he's pretty quick about getting the job done when I tell him that.

[Broken_Hero]

25. about a week

usually take it down on new years day, or the 2nd of Jan.

[Shell Beau]

26. Its coming down tomorrow! I wish it was already done, but we

just haven't really had the time! My tree is so dead that the ornaments are falling off!

[SPKrazy]

28. Were It Up To Me

it would be down tomorrow!

:mad:

but it isn't

so it will be up 'til Jan 6

Long after Christmas and up long before christmas (although this year it was a little late actually)

[bermudat]

29. We take it down New Year's Day and put away all Xmas decorations.

We like to start the new year with a clean slate.

[Left Is Write]

30. I am taking down quite a bit today, but my fireplace/mantel will stay

and the trees won't come down until Friday or Saturday.

[OllieLotte]

31. Just finished taking it down. Usually we take it down Jan 1st. n/t

[KitchenWitch]

32. Usually New Years Day.

[pitohui]

33. the correct date is jan. 6, the kings don't arrive until epiphany

the classic manger scene w. the three kings of different cultures and colors delivering the gifts to baby jesus is said to have occurred on the 12th day of christmas

we rush too soon to get the tree up, then tire of it and rush too soon to take it down

it stays up here until jan. 6

then it's carnival season

i have seen artificial xmas trees in recent years transformed into "mardi gras" trees on that date -- not that there is any such tradition as the mardi gras tree, but if not why not

my trees are potted, not artificial, and i'm considering some mardi gras ornaments this year just for fun

but not until jan. 6!

i agree fire hazard is a legitimate concern, when i did use cut live trees, i always put them up quite late in december, once as late as christmas eve, so to be able to provide safely for the entire 12 days of xmas

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Ours came down yesterday.

[qnr]

35. We have a 'token' tree, maybe 14" high, not worth keeping up n/t