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Patiently awaiting the annual "I took my tree down" announcement...

faeriemoon — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:25:55 GMT

...and the ensuing (sometimes heated) discussion of when the "right" time is to remove the Christmas decorations.

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faeriemoon — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:27:05 GMT

For the record, mine will be up at least for a couple more weeks.

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AuntG — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:29:17 GMT

My only comment is that it isn't a competition. People can do whatever they like, but there's no need to make a formal announcement.

Re: Patiently awaiting the annual "I took my tree down" announcement...

faeriemoon — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:29:55 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
My only comment is that it isn't a competition. People can do whatever they like, but there's no need to make a formal announcement.

But someone will.

Re: Patiently awaiting the annual "I took my tree down" announcement...

Shanus — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:30:56 GMT

We'll leave ours up until Feb. 1st. this year. I enjoy the lights, but take the ornaments off when Hanukkah's over.

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I am still oxox — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:30:58 GMT

Easy for me no tree, all I have to do is clean 8 days worth of wax out of our Menorahs

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Happy2BHere — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:32:42 GMT

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:39:51 GMT

I do mine on January 1 and just ball like a baby while doing it. It feels like as soon as the decorations are put away we are knee deep in a Texas August heat.

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Marp — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:57:07 GMT

I decorate for winter so there is nothing specifically Christmas to take down. The decorations will stay until I feel the urge to take them down, maybe before Valentine's Day, maybe not until spring.

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Lucky Dog — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:28:34 GMT

I don't understand when someone says they take down all the decorations,and the house looks sterile (?).

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threecees — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:33:10 GMT

Of course aren't we supposed to be getting ready for Valentine's Day now?

Every holiday seems rushed, oh yeah there's New Years coming. No

decorating for that holiday anyway.

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CelticCrafter — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:37:18 GMT

I never put it up this year so there is nothing to take down next week.

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Bri369 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:37:58 GMT

I don't understand taking the tree down the day after Christmas. Mine will stay up a while longer. But to each their own...

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katie1859 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:40:48 GMT

I did take mine down today.

The decision was made after the cat Grace knocked it over multiple times,the last Christmas Eve. Came home and ornaments were scattered and tree was laying smack on the living room floor.

I agree that there should be home decor for the winter so a home should never be bare.

I also made a nice front door basket decor for my front door and I personally enjoy the transition.

Christmas decorations were up on Black Friday and CATNESS has a month to climb the tree.

Hello New Year.

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J Town Girl — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:10:29 GMT

I always follow the same routine that my parents did and that is to take the tree down on New Years Day.

We always have a live tree, so by that time, it's usually starting to get somewhat dry. Although this year we found what is perhaps the freshest tree we've ever had. By now we usually have a few needles on the floor, but this year there's not a one.

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Ainhisg — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:54:03 GMT

Yes, to each his or her own. Not only did we take all the Christmas down today including the outside lights, but I decorated for Valentine's Day. I have a lot of cute VDay things, and I want time to enjoy them. My husband has an odd work schedule, and I need his help to put things back up into the attic, so it was do it today or wait until next week, which is supposed to be very cold and nasty.

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willdob3 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:10:47 GMT

@faeriemoon I regularly told myself to take mine down until the end of October, at which time I told myself to leave it up.

My tree is a small cream and gold ceramic one that gives off such a beautiful glow that it is hard to put it away. I enjoy it every day. I might put it away in January and put a Himalayan salt lamp where the tree is. Maybe.

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RetRN — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:20:40 GMT

Take it down whenever you feel ready, no need to make an announcement. When someone else takes down their tree does not affect me in any way.

Re: Patiently awaiting the annual "I took my tree down" announcement...

LindaSal — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:26:14 GMT

Well then again it is a topic that will come up, LOL!

In my case we take it down during the first couple weeks of January, kind of when the mood strikes. It's so much work for us that we like to enjoy it for awhile, always did. It took a few days to get it all set up so it will take a few to pack it all away. I think what people mean by it looking "bare" when the decorations are all down is just because you get accustomed to all the extra stuff in the house and then, it's gone. We adjust to it.

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soozer — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:27:49 GMT

Obviously, this is post directed to those "over 50 and fabulous".