We put our tree up Dec 24 and won't take it down until after Jan 6 - you?

[hedgehog]

Same for the outdoor lights!

[HeiressofBickworth]

1. All our stuff

went up the day after Thanksgiving and came down today.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Ours went up the week after Thanksgiving. It will come down on a day that I have energy...

Sometime mid-January. If I was going to take it down right after Christmas...the idea of a tree would be pointless. I can't help it but I laugh at all the trouble the people who are in a rush to take them go through even to get them up. Pointless to not leave it up. But that's my opinion.

[hedgehog]

3. I had hoped to at least get the lights and Christmas village up before the kids

came home, but at least the house was clean!

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. And you got the lights up eventually...and they're still up!

Every year I grumble about it and then the little guy gets me to go to it.

[applegrove]

5. I will try to keep my tree up as long as possible.

[tjwmason]

6. Nearly the same here

Up on 24th, down before nightfall on 6th.

[seabeyond]

7. thanksgiving weekend - new years weekend. i am a procrastinator.

so i have to have a definite timeline, i have found

[tanyev]

8. I put things up a little earlier, usually the 2nd or 3rd week of December,

but I don't even think about taking them down until after Jan. 6. (*grumble, grumble*,12 days of Christmas start on the 25th, pet peeve, *grumble, grumble*)

[hobbit709]

9. Tree?

[rurallib]

10. we unplug it in Febrauary.

but it stays up.

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Same here, it stays up to Ephinany weekend

then it comes down

[madinmaryland]

12. Took ours down on Thursday evening.

The outdoor lights come down tomorrow.

[Callalily]

13. Oh gawd! I haven't put up

a tree in years and my holiday decorating is in the category of minimalist. Red table cloth on my table, this year I actually splurged for a pointsettia, and I did purchase some pine boughs that I put them in a vase. Done!

Needless to say, cleanup will be super easy.

[riderinthestorm]

14. 12 days of Christmas! That's what we do too. Are you Irish, or from the UK?

I'm Irish and everyone I know who does this seems to come from either the UK or Ireland....

[CatholicEdHead]

15. 12 Days has Catholic roots

between Christmas and Epiphany. I still do not like Christmas music starting way before Christmas, a week before at soonest.

[hedgehog]

16. Irish-American - my Dad's great grandfather

came over during the Civil War, and everyone married another immigrant or child of immigrants. I broke the mold and married a German.

[zipplewrath]

17. We entertain alot

We put it up the first weekend in December, and will tend to take it down the first weekend after New Years. That way the house is all decorated for our various dinner parties.

[femmocrat]

18. It's all coming down tomorrow.

I can't wait to get back to normal.

[livetohike]

19. Tree went up on Dec. 23 and will come down on Jan. 7

We're both eastern European heritage. My Grandmothers always celebrated the "Feast of the Three Kings" on Jan. 6 and growing up, my family always left the tree up past Jan. 6.

[one_voice]

20. My tree went up Dec. 10...

came down on Dec. 26.

The needles were driving me crazy.

[Turbineguy]

21. My Aunt always claimed

it was bad luck to keep the tree in the house into the New Year. She lived to be almost 95.

[emilyg]

22. She must have been related to

my Mom. This is the first time ever I still have the tree up on 1-1.

[Are_grits_groceries]

24. That was the rule my Mama had too.

The tree was down by New Year's Day. It was bad luck to leave it up.
I don't ever remember it being up later that 12/31.

[dana_b]

23. up on Dec. 18

and we will take it down next weekend.