Originally Posted By Stacers76 If you have a Christmas tree, how long do you leave it up? Ours is still pretty green, not drying out too badly and I don't have a tradition or specific date as to when I want to take it down. It's also the first year I've ever had a 7 1/2ft tree and I'm just not motivated to tackle undecorating and taking it down yet...it's a monster! )
Originally Posted By DisneyJen057 I keep my tree until a day or two after the new year. I normally take all the decorations off on New Years day and then I take the tree to the recycling place a day or two after that.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins When I had a real tree, I would get it down in time for pick-up by the garbage dept. They had a certain date when they would collect it and no other time. The real trees dry out so fast nowadays.
Originally Posted By LVBelle I really want to take mine down now but we're having my husband's family over for our Christmas on Saturday so it will have to wait until after that.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer We wait until the Christmas season is over. We'll turn off the lights and begin taking stuff down on Epiphany.
Originally Posted By Travaria In my house all the Christmas decorations, tree included, come down Christmas day. This is the first year that I can remember having anything up past then and that only happened because my aunt and cousins were coming over Christmas afternoon so my mom couldn't take them down until the 26th.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Didn't I just answer this somewhere? And Travaria, really? Christmas day? I'm already bowled over by all the Valentine's and St. Patrick's Day stuff at the fabric store. I am just not ready to shift gears yet (or stop drinking hot buttered rum).
Originally Posted By Ursula ^ Amen, sister. I had one exchange (I bought the wrong something and took it back myself) on Dec. 26th and I was floored that Macy's had Valentine's clothing and candy out already. It isn't even New Year's yet!!!!!!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Sometime between New Year's Day and the next weekend. Takes us about 3 to 4 days to completely undecorate the house.
Originally Posted By Travaria That's right 2/3 Christmas Day, my mom can't stand the clutter from all the Christmas stuff so she just takes it all down. Usually by noon you can't even tell that it's Christmas lol.
Originally Posted By bloona ^^ oh, I would hate it if my tree came down so quickly, I love my tree, its magical. I take ours down on the twelth day of Christmas too. We usually put ours in the garden for a few weeks then, I love looking at it. (obviously not trimmed up still )
Originally Posted By bloona ^^ oh, I would hate it if my tree came down so quickly, I love my tree, its magical. I take ours down on the twelth day of Christmas too. We usually put ours in the garden for a few weeks then, I love looking at it. (obviously not trimmed up still )
Originally Posted By smeeeko ^SeanYoda takes the tree down then as well, especially now that he can't get a real tree. Where I grew up in Indiana, my mom would keep our stuff up only until New Years Day though. We had fake trees though as I'm allergic. (yeah I ruin it for everyone).
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'm with the earlier poster that the tree collection day determines when the tree comes down. My weekly trash pick-up is every wednesday, and I called the scavenger company yesterday to find out if they would be collecting them. The answer was no - not until next week - but if they had said yes, I would've dismantled the tree yesterday. I only do a tree about once every three years, and I've enjoyed having my tree this year, but I'm about done with it. I'm fortunate to have this week off from work, and I'd like to do the packing up while I have all this free time, and get the house back in order. I'll probably tear it all down this weekend and just store the bare tree in the garage until next wednesday morning.
Originally Posted By Stacers76 Sorry if this was a double thread...didn't see it anywhere else but I don't read all the threads...my apologies if it is. We have 2 Boy Scout troops competing for tree pick ups here in our neighborhood now and since our tree still smells awesome and fresh, we're going to go with the Jan 6th picking up Troop since it's later than the other pickup )
