When does your tree come down?

[castleview]

My mother ingrained it in me that Christmas trees stay up until the Epiphany, but this year, I'm eager to get it down sooner. What does everyone else do?

 

[kimmar067]

...I'm with YOU, as far as keeping it up til 'Little Christmas' - my DH would have it out by December 26 if he had his way....

 

[npmommie]

ours usually comes down about 1 week after new years.
not sure this year, we got a huge tree this time, bigger than we usually get,and the dogs are bumping into it constantly, LOL. so I am ready for it to come down!

 

[JarethDrakul]

My families usually stays up until the first week of the new year.....though last year we had the outdoor tree up until July

 

[Good Ol Gal]

Growing up we always had it up till after the new year.

But I was an only child, and with 4 kids, a dog and 3 cats, I am ready for the tree to go down and get some space back!!

 

[JessicaR]

Monday I will start the process of undecorating! UGH.

 

[lvloopingbag]

My tree is the last thing to come down, so it is usually up until almost the middle of January....I love it and hate to take it down....

 

[talullahbelle]

little christmas.....

 

[Jillpie]

I usually do it today or tomorrow, a new years tradition!

 

[HelenePA]

My dog took it down for me on the 27th smashing all the balls on it too ugh.

 

[bas71873]

Probably Sunday morning. I've got just about everything else down in the house on Wednesday (I got on a cleaning/organizing tear), but the tree & the mantle are still decorated. I want to be able to have the den all lit up while we ring in the New Year. We did just take down the outside decorations because we are having a rare warminsh & sunny day and they are calling for rain, so we got that done.

 

[suzanna1066@comcast.]

My came down before noon on Dec. 26th. Call me Scrooge but when it's over I'm done.

 

[njmom47]

Ours will come down Sun...because then it's back to school and work and "normal" routine...and we won't have time!

 

[SleepyMom]

Normally just after New Years. DD has a birthday the first week of January, so I have always tried to get the house back in order before then. This year I am doing things a bit earlier though, all 3 big trees are already down and packed away and this morning I carried all the totes up and placed them around the house to start packing everything else up. Hope to get 3 or 4 done today and the rest tomorrow.

We were supposed to go out of town this weekend, but have some bad weather, so I figure I might as well make good use of this time that I didn't expect to have.

 

[Agri]

Ours comes down whenever we feel like it now.

I think last year it was up until March!

 

[Hannathy]

My tree is the last thing to come down, so it is usually up until almost the middle of January....I love it and hate to take it down....

At least but I don't put mine up right after Thanksgiving either I like to wait till later in December.

 

[Cindy B]

My tree has been down and put away three to four days ago. Thats one fo the first things that goes down.

 

[Art 1]

Epiphany.

 

[heatherwillmom]

We do a great deal of decorating for Christmas so I like to enjoy it for a while. We have a huge outdoor display, bushes wrapped in lights, wooden cutouts, blow-ups, plastic nativity, palstic & metal reindeer, etc. It's not quite like in "deck the Halls", but it's close. On the inside, every door handle & ecery door has something Christmas on it. Many of the pictures on the walls are taken down & something Christmas in it's place. All of the end tables, coffee tables & the bar in the kitchen, have Christmas things on them. Both mantles & both the kitchen table & dining room table are decorated. Even our bathrooms have Christmas toilet seat covers, Christmas soap dispensers, Christmas towels, & Christmas gel clings on the mirrors. As far as trees, we have 3 big trees, 4 smaller trees, even 2 of the small 3 ft trees. We usually start taking everything down after New Years because it's nice to have all of the lights on to celebrate New Years. I feel like we work so hard getting it all decorated, it's a shame not to leave it up for a while. We don't start any Christmas decorating until the day after Thanksgiving when we take down the Thanksgiving decorations. Our kids are teenagers now so they do a great deal of the decorating too. It's really a family affair. It's fun to do it together.

 

[Anna_Marie]

Christmas Day night. The next day, no later. Once Christmas morning is over I want it put up and my house back to normal.