Is this not a little bit early? My missus says it’s bad luck to remove it out before ‘The Twelfth Night’. Fortunately I’m not superstitious. When are you getting rid of yours?

by DarthVarn

40 comments

  1. Always on the 1st of January… hangover permitting. 

  3. We’ve just finished taking all of our decorations down – not a real tree though, that’s back in the box.

    I’ll let you know how 2025 goes…

  4. The missus insists they come down as close the 6th Jan as possible but no later.

  6. That looks like someone who is BEYOND READY for Christmas to be over and to regain some structure in their life. Source – me this time last year.

  8. Done mine already, I’m sick of the cat attacking it when he has to wait for a meal. Plus with work I’m out the house more than in so not really getting much enjoyment from it.

  10. I always think it’s weird people can’t wait to put them up (I saw the first lights round out way go up on the 1st of November) but then a lot also take them down much earlier than is traditional (I think about 50% of the houses on my dog walking route have already done so), although people being thoroughly sick of them after so long probably explains it!

  11. 10 years to grow that, then just dumped on the street. Siiiigh

  12. New years day for me. My friend takes hers down boxing day

  15. I always thought that it should be done before 12th night, i.e. by the 6th but not on any specific day

  16. We take ours down on the 27 or 28, mainly due to my son’s birthday.

  17. My tree stays up all year. Decorate per season

    Most decorations taken down today with a couple left for 6th of Jan.

  18. The decorations and fake tree came down today, the real nordmann fir in the back garden isn’t just for Christmas!

  20. Mine lives in a pot so I’m not getting rid of it, but will probably take the decs off and move it back to it’s usual spot on Twelfth Night…but maybe Orthodox Twelfth Night. Or Candlemas. I only decorated on Christmas Eve and it’s just a little guy, so having them up for a while is nice sometimes.

  21. Came down yesterday – takes up a lot of space that we now need back

  22. I don’t get rid of mine, I chop it up and compost the branches, the stem i chop up to make xmas decorations out of and give them to family.

  23. We have an artificial tree and it always comes down New Years Day. I have it up from the first weekend in December, so I have a long time to enjoy it.

    It feels wrong having it still up when everything gets back to normal, so Jan 1st works for us

  24. I lived in Sweden for a few years and I love Christmas more than is healthy. I used an old Swedish tradition to justify leaving everything up until Easter (many where I lived left just lights up as ‘winter lights’ as there were only 2 street lights in my town).

    I live in NE Scotland now so I keep lights up November to Easter with Christmas decorations from the day after thanksgiving to 12th night. I mix traditions to suit myself, others can do the same. We have street bins where I am and a bunch of streets to the south have been told to put trees out for collection this week between Christmas and new year! Our collections are after 12th night.

  25. I took all the decorations off it today whilst the kids are out, now the *Naughty Elf* is sat at the top of it wrapped in lights waiting for them to come home

    So, in about an hour or so, I guess

  26. Ours has gone. Needed room for the Barbie Dreamhouse. From one pile of plastic shite to another.

  27. I reckon lots of people put their decorations up and get a tree in far too early, and then they’re sick of it by Christmas, hence the rush to get them down.

    The first day of Christmas begins at sunset on the 24th of December, and it’s quite reasonable (but often not practical) to decorate *that day*, then leave everything up until the 5th of Jan.

    But nowadays, people seem to do it all earlier, perhaps influenced by our friends across the pond who decorate for Thanksgiving then leave them up through December. And the shops, who do it earlier because they want to get us out and buying stuff.

    If you get a real tree, and it’s been in a heated room for a couple of weeks by Christmas Day, naturally it’s going to be dessicated and dropping needles everywhere by Boxing Day!

  28. My brother keeps a Christmas tree growing in a pot. At Christmas they bring it inside for no more than 10 days, then it goes back in the garden. I’m planning to start doing the same.

  31. We normally remove all our decs the first weekend after New Year. See no reason to change that this year…

  32. I hate the “early up, early down” C U next Tuesdays! It feels like Christmas is a fucking competition for them. I stopped going on facebook to avoid the constant braggabout “Got mine down” on fecking BOXING DAY!!

  33. 12th night for us. It’s pretty and I love the sparkly lights and the slightly surreal feeling of this time of year, so I want to keep it for as long as possible! I’m never in a rush to get back to “normal”.

  34. New years day.

    I’m going back to work in the 2nd and don’t want to come home every evening and see a tree for a festival that’s finished

  35. Thanks for reminding me it’s that time of year when the shittiest people dump their trees in the street instead of using the provided recycling areas or whatever, etc.

    I saw two just now in my way to the shop.

  37. It’s depressing going back to work on the 2nd/3rd and still having decorations up. I get no joy from turning the tree lights on for a holiday that’s clearly been and gone. I love Christmas, but after the December build-up, the day itself, and Boxing Day I’ve had my fill and can’t drag it out more than that.

  38. Op! If it’s in south east London i will pick it up and replant it.

  39. Usually middle of January. Try to make the most of the Christmas tree since it is real.

  40. I like having it up for New Year’s Eve, then depending on how hungover I am, it’s taken down on the 1st/2nd.

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