When are you taking down your Christmas tree?

LordSutch

Mine went up about six days before Christmas, and it will be coming down on the last day of Christmas, which is Sunday the 6th/ January. I only ask, because many of our neighbours put up their trees three or four weeks before Christmas, and many of those same neighbours had already taken their trees down by New Years day :cool:

Curious.

chillywilly

NEVER!!!!!!

monkeysnapper

Lol that's so funny , I read that thread and looked behind me in living room, the mrs said she took it down 2 days ago .

My detective days are well and truly over

Sunny Dayz

Our neighbours are the same. One house was covered in lights since 3rd week in November, but hasn't switched them on since St. Stepehens day and took them all down at the weekend!

tatumkelly

I took it down yesterday, I just couldn't look at it anymore... and usually I'm the most annoyingly Christmassy person ever

donegal_man

I've got my kids for the weekend so we'll have a little Christmas on Sunday and I'll take it and the rest of the bits n pieces down after they go to bed

holmeste

will take it down on sat 5th Jan or sunday 6th!

aujopimur

Yesterday.

gidget

Tomorrow. Going to ease the post christmas blues by eating some left over chocolate.

CarrieAnne

I am one of those "put it up a bit early people..." but I am afraid (for my Husband and neighbours) that I am also thinking the earliest it can come down is Monday.... and my crib will stay up longer PG... as per old tradition.

My Husband tried to say it should come down the weekend, back to work, blah blah.... but it is still Christmas. I love it all, religion included, visited crib yesterday in church, spoiled my children today with few hours in "adventure area place".... I know people are winding down and "tired" of it all, but i love it, have my tree in corner as i type and can't believe it will be down on Monday! :-(

Twoandahalfmen

Today

xzanti

Mines down since the 2nd... Love Christmas but I hate looking at the decorations once New Years is over..

Sierra 117

I'll be taking mine down on the 7th, Monday. Christmas only comes once a year so might as well leave it up until Christmas is officially over.

QuiteInterestin

Lights will be turned off at midnight on the 6th of January and tree and decorations taken down on the 7th (if my entire household hasn't been hospitilised with the cold/flu that's doing the rounds at the moment). I know all the excitement of Christmas is over after New Years Day but I still don't like to see people taking down their trees/decorations before the 6th of January, its still the Christmas season after all.

Chucken

I've just taken down everything bar the outside lights.

They'll be turned off at midnight tonight (6th)

Thats it

allthedoyles

we took ours down on 2nd Jan ........

Richard tea

Taken down since last thursday. Didnt get into christmas at all this year due to most of the family getting vommiting bug at the start of december and then man flu on christmas eve. First time to be unwell over christmas and i hope it never happens again.

AK333

Tomorrow, if I have the energy. We have all had dreadful Christmas cold for the last fortnight so I'll be glad to see the back of it to be honest. Can't wait to get back to normal

I'm going to do it tomorrow after school. I'm squeezing one last night out of it. I'm going to put Valentines stuff on the dresser in the kitchen just to ease the pain a little....

Posy

My tree will be switched off tonight at midnight. Devastated.

Dee01

I think it started way too early this year and as a result, everyone was just so sick of looking at Christmas stuff, we just had to get rid of it all as soon as possible. Mine are gone since yesterday - good riddance to be honest. Delighted to see the back of them.

Posy

Well, there are Easter Eggs for sale already- I don't think Christmas was brought in too early if this is the threshold!
I have had my tree up since the last week of November and am not sick of it at all, it's still beautiful.
Besides, this is the Christmas forum- we'd bring in Christmas in August if we* could!




*We may or may not mean 'I'

We put ours up for the Toy Show, as it was our baby's birthday. Thats just over 6 weeks. I would give my left arm to leave it up another 6. I love Christmas, the build up, the cold, boo to January. I could cry

sugarman

sugarman wrote: »

Just leave it there and throw a sheet over it until next year. If it was up to me, I would:p

Don't tempt me!!!:D

eh i dunno

Tomorrow for me. Sad to see it go but has to be done. Didnt look the same once the presents went from under it

eh i dunno

eh i dunno wrote: »

Tomorrow for me. Sad to see it go but has to be done. Didnt look the same once the presents went from under it

My parents bought some of those "presents" that light up from an independant hardware store here in Mayo, they look lovely lit at night....helps ease the pain....:(

sunbeam

Decided to leave mine up one extra night as we used to do years ago, so it will come down tomorrow. It will be replaced by a bowl of hyacinths on the windowsill.

Does anyone remember on The Den about 20 years ago when they left the tree up until nearly Easter?

sadie06

sunbeam wrote: »

Decided to leave mine up one extra night as we used to do years ago, so it will come down tomorrow. It will be replaced by a bowl of hyacinths on the windowsill.

Does anyone remember on The Den about 20 years ago when they left the tree up until nearly Easter?

I was just telling my kids about that today. It was incredibly funny! You'd dash home from school and slap on the den to see if they had finally taken it down. It's my lasting memory of how funny zig and zag were.

Loughc

Posy wrote: »

My tree will be switched off tonight at midnight. Devastated.

Took mine down today. Apartment looks cold and empty, I already miss the warm glow of the tree lights. Gutted, I should have kept them up I don't even speak to the neighbours!

:P

lockie1983

lockie1983 wrote: »

Took mine down today. Apartment looks cold and empty, I already miss the warm glow of the tree lights. Gutted, I should have kept them up I don't even speak to the neighbours!

:P

Ha ha, lockie - put everything back up again - it'll be a guarantee that ye won't be talking in 2013 either

Posy

I hugged my Christmas tree tightly after turning it off.
At least it's only going to live in the attic though. I couldn't deal with having a real tree that gets thrown out! :eek:

Then I had to turn off my crib, lighting wreath, hall tree and kitchen tree to add to my dismay.

sunbeam

I couldn’t face the thought of it tomorrow morning, so I took one last look at my tree and have just finished taking down the lot.

House looks so bare and cobwebby now....

miamee

sunbeam wrote: »

Decided to leave mine up one extra night as we used to do years ago, so it will come down tomorrow. It will be replaced by a bowl of hyacinths on the windowsill.

Does anyone remember on The Den about 20 years ago when they left the tree up until nearly Easter?

I think mine was up until mid-January last year it;s still up now and will be coming down Wednesday at the earliest...but that's only because I won;t have time before then and I wanted to keep it up for the whole weekend.

Overflow

Probably the 9th, the Christmas decorations are still going strong over here in Norway, Everywhere you go lights are still up and Christmas trees sparkling in peoples windows.

branie

Took ours down yesterday

NedLowry

Today

Done *sob* in my parents house and here....can't...cope.....however, I did put up the Valentine stuff as I said I'd do!

leahyl

OMG my mum is taking down the decorations today while I'm in work - thank God she does it every year cos I'd get seriously depressed

A work colleague was telling me today that she loves Christmas so much that when they were taking down the decorations at home yesterday there were tears welling in her eyes!:eek::D

Loughc

leahyl wrote: »

OMG my mum is taking down the decorations today while I'm in work - thank God she does it every year cos I'd get seriously depressed

A work colleague was telling me today that she loves Christmas so much that when they were taking down the decorations at home yesterday there were tears welling in her eyes!:eek::D

We are not alone so! :P

S'pose, technically, its only about 10 months until we get to put them up again....next month we'll be in single figures....I'm really fighting a losing battle here

Loughc

Mayo Gurl wrote: »

S'pose, technically, its only about 10 months until we get to put them up again....next month we'll be in single figures....I'm really fighting a losing battle here

Feel your pain Mayo girl I really do, my apartment is beyond empty with them gone! Miss the hussle and bussle and then the peace of Christmas Day itself, it's pure magic!

SCOOP 64

Took down Sunday 6th. every time i walk into the room now ,i think how empty it looks.

It is total magic....I'm as bad as the smallies. I was as excited as they were on Christmas Even - even though I knew The Truth ah well, to put another slant on it to cheer you up - 50 weeks tonight

mel.b

My tree went up on the 1st Dec and came down on the 1st Jan. My mum is Australia takes her tree down on St Stephen's day, which is when I normally would as well, but I couldn't be bothered this year. I'd never heard of people leaving trees up into Jan until I moved to Ireland!

donegal_man

Just finished taking everything down. I'd intended to do it yesterday evening but the kids asked me to wait until they had gone back to their mother so now they're gone and so are the deccies.
Really depressed now

Loughc

donegal_man wrote: »

Just finished taking everything down. I'd intended to do it yesterday evening but the kids asked me to wait until they had gone back to their mother so now they're gone and so are the deccies.
Really depressed now

That must be hard, if its any consolation your boards family are here anytime day or night so you are never alone when we're around!

irishbarb

Took ours down today. I'm not back to college until Monday, so I've taken to moping around the house feeling very sorry for myself.

Loughc

irishbarb wrote: »

Took ours down today. I'm not back to college until Monday, so I've taken to moping around the house feeling very sorry for myself.

Been there! Only coming around now and the tree has been down since Sunday! Posting here and reading similar posts to mine help with the therapy tho!

Posy

My tree is in the attic now. Oh God, my poor beautiful tree!!

I hate January! *stamps foot*

On the plus side, I still have my crib up.

Loughc

Posy wrote: »

My tree is in the attic now. Oh God, my poor beautiful tree!!

I hate January! *stamps foot*

On the plus side, I still have my crib up.

And your avatar still has its Santy Hat!

Posy

She's refusing to take it off. :pac: