Keeping a Christmas tree up year round

[Uncleromulus]

Once in great while as I drive around I'll see a house with all the Christmas (outside) lights still up. Not lighted, of course, but still on the outside of the house.
But last week I went to a house where the XMAS tree was still up! I casually made mention of it, and the person said she always left it up. She said never turns on the lights, but decorated tree is still there , year round.
Does this seem "unusual" to anybody--or do you know of others who do this??

 

[KristaTX]

It's weird to leave it up and turn the lights on all year, but I guess some people really love Christmas trees. To each his/her own.

However, leaving it up all year and not turning the lights on ?? That's bizarre. That just screams "laziness".

 

[daisyduck123]

We've got one house in our town that still has their outdoor X-mas lights up & turned ON each night. That seems more odd to me than leaving the tree up & decorated in the house year-round.

 

[Uncleromulus]

Should add that I couldn't see the tree from outside the house--only when you walked in, it was in a room that you pass to get to the kitchen.

 

[aynt79]

One of our neighbors still has their tree up in the front window. It has been there since at least September, that's when I first noticed it. I'm not sure if it even has lights on it, since it never was lit up even during Christmas time whenever we would drive by.

 

[Jockaroo]

If you left it up all year long, wouldn't you have to dust it? Mine is up for about a month and by that time I'm whacking the fake branches on my leg as I put them in the box. I couldn't imagine a worse dust catcher in my house. Seems kinda nasty.

 

[ilovepcot]

We once had a 10 foot Christmas tree up for three years. Couldn't be seen from outside. It wasn't done in "traditional" Christmas colors, but done in a Victorian theme of peach, ivory and gold...colors of the room decor at the time. It was situated between the living room and dining room and the white twinkling lights were perfect when passing through to another room. Really set a peaceful mood. It was the suggestion of many friends that we leave it up...just looked "right" for our style of home. We've since scaled back on the Victorian decor and the tree hasn't been up the past couple of years. Getting old and it's a lot of work.

ETA: JOCKAROO...it *is* kind of nasty. Many, many glass ornaments that required washing, cloth ones that had to be vacuumed. The tree was so heavy with ornaments and other decorations that it had to be anchored to one wall with special wire. Again, lots of work! We thought it was worth it though.

 

[trip]

I'm sure my neighbors are talking about me.

My Christmas wreath is still up!! It's not on my front door but on the side wall next to it. I kept forgetting about it and then when I went to throw it away, a bird had started to make a nest in it. Now my DGS's have seen it and I don't have the heart to toss it. So, now I guess I'll have to wait until the chicks are born and fly away.

 

[MyManGoofy!]

My grandmothers best friend had a couple of trees she left up year round. But she changed out the lights/decorations for the various holidays/seasons throughout the year.

She was such a sweet lady and I always got a kick out of it when we would go visit her.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

My SIL left one up year round, in the family room. She decorated it differenlty each month.

I have one that hangs on the wall. It gets redecorated every season w/ Smores. I have Easter ones, summer ones, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas/Winter.

I used to live in a military town. Many homes had trees up while there loved ones were deployed. They waited and celebrated Christmas when the returned.

 

[SetzKitten]

My parents have one up until my brother comes home from Iraq. He left just after Thanksgiving for a second tour of duty. I don't think he'll be back by next Christmas, either. They decorated it red, white and blue.

 

[mattsdragon]

Ours is still up. Undecorated, and in the garage, but it's still standing up in there because we don't feel like shoving it into the box (the box won't fit up the attic stairs with the tree in it).

 

[suzimar57]

my grandmother used to do this

leave her small decorated/lighted tree up year round

she'd just cover it with a large trash bag....

 

[cccm]

Hopefully it is fake and not real. I do think it is a little weird. A couple of friends still have their wreathes up.

 

[Aimeedyan]

DH has an aunt that built a Christmas tree closet in her house - it's about 12 ft tall and she just rolls the tree in it each year and rolls it back out. I guess if she didn't have that closet she might leave hers up, too!

 

[Feralpeg]

I worked with a lady who kept her tree up year round. She called it her seasonal tree. She decorated it for all the different holidays/seasons. She'd have a fourth of July tree, a summer tree, a Halloween tree, etc. It was actually very cool!

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

We have a fake tree in our living room. It's not a Christmas tree. It's more like a lemon tree. It has white lights on it, which we turn on occasionally. It was the "money tree" that the church gave us at our surprise wedding shower. We think it's quite peaceful and we enjoy it.

 

[Cup Cake]

I've noticed a few trees still in front windows, some lit up, some not. I find it odd, but I just assume they're just too lazy to put the tree away.

My neighbors across the street have the same ritual every year. The day after Christmas they take their real tree down, set it outside their front door, and leave it until spring. When it has reached just the right shade of brown they put it out to the curb, and seem surprised that the garbage men don't take it. Every year, same thing. It's weird. It's just too hard to walk that tree to the curb in December, but mid-April is good.

 

[arminnie]

However, leaving it up all year and not turning the lights on ?? That's bizarre. That just screams "laziness".

Guilty.

In my defense - I left town at 1:30 pm on Christmas Day after feeding 17 people and have been gone most of the time since then. I leave again in 2 days.

I really am ready for it to be down, but have not had time (or am really lazy). It's in a back room that I do not go into very often, but I am ready for it to be put away.

But first I need to clean out the garage so I can get to the storage boxes. I had new flooring put in the house just before Christmas so just threw stuff in there at the end.

It is going to be a huge job to get the garage back in order.

 

[denisem]

I'm guilty of this - but it started as kind of a joke.

I was a "theme tree" nut and I'd moved into a condo with a HUGE master bath, so decided I needed a tree in there (to go along with our "normal" tree & kitchen tree). The bathroom had awful pink ceramic tile, so I went with the flow & decorated it "girly" style: pearls, lace, crystal ornaments. It was the only way I could make that pink room bearable. I left it up for a year or two - it was relaxing to lie in the garden tub with only the tree lights turned on.

The person who mentioned the Christmas tree closet cracked me up! My sister (who also used to be a Christmas nut - we both have extensive "Village" collections we now want to unload) used to joke that if we won the lottery we'd build on a "Christmas Room" to our houses and leave the stuff up all year 'round.