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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

ours is up and it will be up for a couple more weeks. No hurry to start packing things away.

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

On 12/28/2014 cater said:

ours is up and it will be up for a couple more weeks. No hurry to start packing things away.

That's us too. When people say they want things back to normal, I think that 'normal' is rather bland, so I like leaving the decorations out until mid January. We do pull the plug on the outside decorations around January 5th.

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

On 12/28/2014 RedTop said: When we're home, the tree is on from the time we get up, until we go to bed. It will be this way until we take it down sometime in January.

Us too, we love looking at it. We will take our decorations down the weekend after new years day.

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

Tree and other decorations go away on Jan. 6th. Sad when they all go away and everything looks so bare.

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

The tree, the lights, the decorations, the Christmas cards all stay up until Jan. 6th because that is when the Christmas season ends. Somestimes I keep everything up a bit longer. It's hard to let Christmas go.....
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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

mine will be down today...my apartment is small....need the space...

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

I have 2 small ones I keep up all year! I keep them lit through the winter months..they're on timers..!

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

On 12/28/2014 Anniecamp said:

We enjoy ours well into January. I was very ill last January and left it up for quite a while, because it was so pretty during the dreary winter.

I do this too, esp since mine have clear lights!

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

For Solstice/Christmas I usually get a rosemary bush which I decorate with pentagrams and fairies, cut out from cards. Not this year though since I went away for Christmas, but normally I leave it up for about a week and a half, then put it outside.

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Re: How many days after Christmas do you plug in your artificial tree?

The last day that we usually light the tree is New Year's Day.

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