Christmas trees: when did yours go up, and when did it/ will it come down?

[hedgehog]

We started decorating on the 22nd and finished on the 24th. It's a cut tree from out back. My husband takes down a pine to thin them for the remaining pines, and the top 8' becomes our tree. This year I'm holding out for the 6th of January before anything comes down.

Meanwhile, across the road - their tree was to the curb Christmas morning!

[jonno99]

1. Growing up, my mom would try to keep the tree up as long as she could. In the Danish

tradition "Christmas lasts 'till Easter Sunday".

As for our tree this year: we had it up the week after Thanksgiving. We'll take it down sometime this week...

[Pendrench]

2. We put our tree up on December 15...and our cat took it down on December 18.

Luckily we had an artificial tree in the attic...once we put it up, the cat left it alone.

We just took the artificial tree down yesterday.

Tim

[femmocrat]

3. Ours is down.

We put it up on Dec. 17 and took it down yesterday. Outdoor lights will come down as soon as it warms up!

[hobbit709]

4. Can't take something down that was never put up.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. I took mine down on boxing day 1998

[yewberry]

5. Put it up a week before Christmas.

It'll stay up until the Epiphany. 1/6.

[annabanana]

6. ditto . . . .n/t

[Codeine]

7. Up five days before Christmas,

down the day after. Usually it's up for a while after, but I just happened to have that day off and got antsy and dismantled it early.

[Aristus]

9. Up: first weekend of December. Down: this morning.

The holidays are over...

[mnhtnbb]

10. We no longer do a real tree

but I decorated the first weekend of December and I'm thinking about leaving decorations up until tomorrow.

[Iggo]

11. Couple weeks before and a couple days after.

Didn't have one this year, but that's what I shoot for when I do have one.

[dr.strangelove]

12. Up December 11 - On the curb December 26!

We like it for a couple of weeks, but after 2 weeks the nice smell is gone, it stops taking significant water and the needles start to drop. 2 weeks is about all we do.

[uriel1972]

13. about 26 years ago^ and about 24 years ago down

[Beartracks]

16. I like that you left that final tree up for 2 years!

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[Phentex]

14. We move slowly here...

the tree sat on the back porch for a while before we brought it in the weekend before Christmas. Today, I will remove the ornaments and my husband will remove the lights. Then it'll probably sit in the room for a couple of days before my husband takes it out and throws it in the woods.

We did take all of the outdoor decor down on Saturday which was a record for us!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

15. When I was a kid

We'd put up the tree over Thanksgiving weekend. On New Years day, my Mom would take all the decorations off, and my Dad would drag it out to the curb, where the city would collect it within a couple days. By the time I was 12, or so and being the youngest, we stopped with the tree altogether.

My wife and I pretty much followed that tradition, and now haven't had a tree in some 20 years.

[Beartracks]

17. Up anytime between Thanksgiving and 12/18...

... and down sometime after Epiphany, January 6.

We're really pretty lax on the before and after, as long as we have the tree standing and decorated from Dec 18 to Jan 6.

We've been doing fake trees for quite some time, so no needle worries. But keeping the pre-lits lit is something else. Sometimes the tree can be up so long, parts of light strands will wink out before Christmas Eve, which makes me not jolly. And changing those tiny little fuses NEVER works.

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[benld74]

18. Down from attic 12/12 still up today, but coming down this week and back into attic

[raptor_rider]

19. Put up mine late

We were moving!! 10 months in a RV with husband and 2 kids, the wait was worth it!! It was taken down on the first...

[LynneSin]

20. Mine came down January 3rd....

2002

At that point I decide to stop putting up stupid Xmas decorations.