Is it time to “de-holiday” the house?
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When I was growing up, we had a little family tradition: We left the Christmas tree up until after my birthday in late January. We did this for a few reasons: First, it looked so pretty, we hated to see it go. Second, we had an aluminum tree (the old-fashioned kind in which you stick the branches in a pole) so we didn’t worry about fire hazards. Third (and foremost), was because it was such an anti-climactic hassle to “un-decorate” and dismantle the tree. The anticipation of Christmas festivities motivated us to haul the tree and decorations out of the garage, organize the branches from shortest to tallest on the pole, and hang our treasured ornaments. What in the world was a kid’s motivation for reversing the process (aside from a parent’s order to do it)?
So my parents worked out a reprieve and we extended the demolition date to the weekend after my birthday. My friends (some of whom took down their trees on December 26th) thought it was pretty funny that we still had our tree up at the end of January. The all-time record was Valentine’s Day due to an out-of town trip we took that year!
I’m sure ours isn’t the only family that’s reluctant to tackle the tree issue. I had a coworker who so disliked the post-Christmas chore that she threw a sheet over her decorated artificial tree and stored it in her sewing room until the following year.
As you may have guessed, my tree is still up. I have continued the tradition, even though our real tree is a spiky, dried-up mess by the time I take it down. But it still smells wonderful, and when I finally do remove the decorations and take the tree out to the curb, I’ll be cheered by the thought that it’s a lot less labor-intensive than the old aluminum one!
Do you have family traditions that other people might find a little odd? Do tell.
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Well, my tree is still up as well. And it will be up till Chinese New Year. I am not chinese buy the way:) And another odd tradition for most americans. I decorate my tree after 25th of December, I am russian born and our Christmas is on 7th of January:)
We traditionally waited until after the Super Bowl, both out of post-holiday laziness and not wanting to let go of the holidays. Don’t know what they do now that I am now grown and off on my own. That and I now despise seeing anything invoking the holidays and such decor since I have now worked in waitressing and retail for the last few years XP.
On January 1st, you have corn bread, black eyed peas and greens (and sometimes ham, depending) and take down the decorations.
It’s up to you when you want to take xmas stuff down. You and only you have a say what YOU take down the stuff. I still have my xmas stuff up, i have no idea when im takin my stuff down.
Our tradition is to take everything down on New Year’s day. However, one year nobody felt like doing it…so the tree stayed up till March, and then we forot the stockings, so they hung on the mantle till July, when I finally got sick of looking at them. Once I actually put the stockings away with all the candy inside…the following Christmas, they had all melted and were stuck together in a wad…I’ll never do that again!
Although I love the tree once it is decorated, I hate assembling, decorating it and disassembling it again, and so does my spouse. A few years ago I happened to find a tree that was totally pre-lit and pre-decorated. Not only that, but it also had an electronic gizmo that when you took it out of the box, all you had to do was plug it in and press a button and voila, it grew to a beautifully decoraed and pre-lit 7 ft. tree!
When the holidays are over, you press the button again and it shrinks small enough to fit into the box to store for the following year. I was lucky because it was also on a 50% off sale. I have never seen a tree like that again and my husband and I joke that Santa Claus must have it especially made it for me.
It’s January 12 and my tree it’s up. In our culture, we celebrate Three Kings’ Day on January 6 so everyone waits to dismantle their trees after this day. I should actually bring the tree down right now since it’s way beyond Three Kings’ Day but I like looking at it and also the fact that I’m just being lazy as well.
My tradition is to put up the decorations on or around Thanksgiving Day and to take them down the day after New Years Day (need a day to recover!). But sometimes, because of illness, or simply laziness, its been later! This year the tree was up, but not decorated until the week BEFORE Christmas. I think whatever your tradition is, go with it! We used to (as kids) open our presents on Christmas Eve and now we open one on Christmas Eve (unless we have the regular Christmas Eve Party) in which case they all get opened! And then open the rest at a party at another family members home on Christmas Day. It just depends. Whatever, make the holiday your own, or shake it up a bit and change it around a little! I wish the tree would decorate itself though! I like the post about the pushing a button and WA LA its presto chango done!
It is traditional to keep the christmas tree and decorations up until the 6th of January (the twelth day of Christmas), but it is up to you when to take them down, although it is supposed to be bad luck to keep them up after the 6th, unless you keep them up until next year.
I took down the outside holiday decorations over this past weekend and it made the neighbors sad. They like looking at the garlands and lights from their houses and will miss the warm glow it gives my house. I won’t miss the electric bill. But, I won’t take down the inside decorations or the tree until my birthday in early February. It’s my own little tradition to get some extra mileage out of the holidays.
I always take my christmas stuff down the weekend after New Years. Then I put up valentine’s day the weekend later.
For me, the sad part is after I take down Easter the weekend after. Then there isn’t anything to decorate for until 4th of July, when I just put up a few flags here and there.
My place looks completely bare for three months.
We wait till epiphany is over, after January 11th.
the tree is decorated on Christmas Eve and came down the weekend after the Feast of the Epiphany (Jan. 6th), or what we call Little Christmas. if it was up to me the tree would be up & lit all year long. i love the look & warm feelings of it.
I too still have my tree up! My family hates taking it down, and watching other people lights come off their houses so we keep it up until the day we finally feel like moving furniture :] The wreath is still on the door, our pillow says Merry Christmas, our welcome mat says Noel, and our presents havent been put away.
January 11th is the official final day of Christmas according to the Catholic church. That last day was in celebration of the Babtism of Jesus. So, if your Catholic, you were obligated to keep it up until January 12th (the day after the 12 days of Christmas), also known as the end of an Octet. Anyway, I think you ought to keep them up as long as you want, Christmas is a good and wonderful celebration in which we remember and do good things for each other. So, what harm can come of keeping those symbols up for as long as you want. Some folks keep em up all year long, and hey.. they don’t have to fuss with taking them down and putting them up again
My Christmas tree is still up…I was not Russian-born, however my family is also Ukrainian and we celebrate both traditional and Ukrainian Christmases; although we do not exchange gifts during the latter, we gather and eat and be merry. The tree is usually down by the second week in January–this year it will be taken down this weekend. I too had my tree up until February once–my second daughter came home from the hospital on Christmas Eve, so needless to say, I was preoccupied!!
My father began ‘overdecorating’ before it was routine, back in the late 50’s. By the 70’s school children were bussed in to tour our home. Although my parents have passed away, two of the five of us still carry on the madness. Pulling out ‘the decorations’ begins in early autumn and as soon as Thanksgiving dinner is over then “Sarah”, the Christmas angel comes out to herald Christ’s coming. We continue to decorate until Christmas Eve, celebrate all night, attend a midnight service, come home with friends and have breakfast at 1-2 am. Then we ‘play Santa’ and sleep til the kids get us up. The decorations come down s-l-o-w-l-y. First the santa’s and elves, next the mangers and true Christ related items, then the reindeer and lastly the snowmen and poinsettias.
One year some of the stuff was still up in July.
I love the subtle small lights which border every room in the house, the candles, the wilting snowmen next to the firelplace. For our family, the decorating represents not only Christmas, but brings beauty to winter. The fireplace, the hot chocolate, the dim lights and soft music make every winter night warm and cozy. I wish Christmas lasted until mid-March!!!
In my place it is tradition to put up xmas decorations in the first days of December, and we take them out the weekend after the Three Kings Day (January 6, also known as The Epiphany).
Well my family tradition may be a little odd but for us we consider it bad luck to bring in the new year with old christmas decorations still up. This may have been my moms way of making sure that it actually got done in a timely manner. She would always say “its bad luck to bring in the new year with the old year, you should not combine the two, so out with the old and in with the new”. Anyways i know it is crazy to believe in “good luck” but to this day i still “have” to get the decorations down by no later than new years eve, i mean i sure don’t want to take the chance, just in case…LOL
unfortunately this year was the only year i spent a Christmas without a tree , due to the fact i spent the school year with my aunt who does not decorate ever since her 2 sons have left her.
We used to keep it up till Epiphany, when the 3 wise men came to adore the newborn king. (About 2 or 3 weeks after Christmas.)
After getting married our tree stayed up till early January. (Wife’s birthday.)
This year with both of us working we haven’t had time to take the tree down. We finally have an artificial one so there is no needle dropping to worry about.
I still have my tree up as well. It’s funny you said that you keep the tree up until your birthday, because my family does that as well by keeping it up through my birthday (January 7th). We usually take it down around the middle of january.
Since my birthday is January 9th, I’ve always waited until after to start to dismantle the tree. Well, it’s now January 12th and there’s absolutely no energy or motive to take it down anytime soon.
In my family, the tradition is to take the tree down on the 6th Jan. I’m not sure where it comes from, but it has always been considered “bad luck” for us to have it up after then. The other decorations slowly dissapear throug the course of the year – someone will knock them down and they’ll get shoved in a cupboard, or somebody will come in and ask why we have shrivelled mistletoe above the door in July. My granny also always makes the Christmas cakes (or Pudding, I always forget which one it is) at easter, the lets it mature for the rest of the year, and all the children of the family go to her house and decorate them on 1st Dec. She makes them for my three aunts and uncles, her brothers and her and my Grandad, so there’s usually around ten cakes made (two for spares in case any friends ask for one). All of the family gather at the biggest house on Christmas (this year it was my mothers), some coming on Christmas Eve and some on Christmas day, and everyone brings contributions to the dinner. Father Christmas presents are opened as soon as everyone wakes up (which is as early as the earliest) and then other presents wait until after lunch. I love Christmas!
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At my house, sometimes we don’t begin decorating for Christmas until the Sunday before Christmas Day. My mother claims it’s because that’s when the Catholic season of Advent ends and the Christmas season begins. However, by that logic, the Christmas decorations should be down by January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. (And ours are still up.) So I think it’s just an excuse to procrastinate, which we’re notorious for. Once we WRAPPED presents for each other on Christmas morning! Anyway, our cat loves sleeping under the Christmas tree, and we wouldn’t want to disappoint the cat. Our oddest tradition involves the Christmas Pickle, a green glass pickle-shaped ornament which blends in with the tree. Every year the youngest members of the family hunt for the pickle, and whoever finds it gets a small prize. I don’t know where this tradition came from, but it’s weird and I love it.
i guess a good rule of thumb would be to go with what the stores do. they already have valentines day stuff!
My tree is still up. My tree will be up for a while too i think haha. We like the tree, it looks very nice. No one likes to see it go
In Sweden, you keep your tree until the13th of January, and some of us American types follow the custom too. The problem is getting it mulched after everyone else is done disposing of trees. (traditionally you burn it, but it’s too dry and windy here for that)
I took mine down early this year…It was gone on the 27th! The rest of the house was clean (see my comments on the organization blog), and my husband & I couldn’t wait to get rid of the stuff that was cluttering up our space!
Honestly, I work really hard to ensure that most of my holiday decor is easy to remove. I plan the “un-decorating” in advance. I generally put some type of special decoration in every room, but each of these are chosen based on how easy they are to put away. For example, the guest room this year had two pointsettias, as well as ornaments hanging from each of the doorknobs. The bathroom had a pointsettia and a collection of wooden reindeer. It took a total of two minutes to have both of those rooms returned to normal.
The tree itself is obviously more complicated, but since it was the only hard part, we really only spent about an hour de-Christmasing the house.
haha, yes mine is up too! we usually leave it up until around January 20th because we are all too lazy to take it down, and as you said: it really does look pretty =]
My tree is down has been since the 5th, usually I take it down on New Years but I didn’t feel like it this year. My mom’s neighbor hates to take down and put up their tree so badly that their artificial tree has been up for five years sitting in the corner of the living room they dust it every 4 months or so and just leave it up! So waiting a little longer this year really didn’t seem like a big deal after I found out how long their tree has been up!
My birthday is on January 20 so my mom keeps the tree up until my birthday is over.
I’m okay with leaving the Christmas trees up in your house, but you should definitely take down the decorations on the outside of your house ASAP.
When I was a kid, we took the tree down whenever we got around to it after New Year’s Day. It lasted as long as maybe 3 weeks.
Now, we leave ours up until after January 6th, Three Kings’ Day. I want to keep the tradition that my Puerto Rican husband grew up with for our son–and I LOVE traditions! We save a few Christmas presents for the Kings to bring. We put out some oatmeal (real straw is hard to find in the yard around here!) and some water for the camels and we have pork, rice and beans, maduros, and tostones for dinner with family and friends. It’s not a huge celebration, but it’s nice to be able to extend the holiday a little longer.
I still have my tree up now I’m 2 lazy to put it down.
we wait until a little after the day of the 3 kings
still is sad to take down all of it
takes tht holiday cheer and throws it right out the window…or more so in the attic
usually we wait a little longer but this yr it was taken down early
at least we still have the lights up outside
I don’t do Christmas anymore.. but i do leave some Christmas lights up in my kitchen all year long as low-level, energy-efficient lighting.
We keep ours up until January 6th: Epiphany.
ours our still up. Trees should be up till at least the 5 or 6 which is epihpany, aka the last day of Christmas. Ever heard of 12 days of Christmas? Yeah it starts on Christmas. And someone talked about the pickle, thats a German tradition i believe, but we didnt for a few reasons the past 2 years. I love keeping stuff up. Maybe taking some down but anything that looks pretty wintery i love to keep up all winter like our stairs.
the tree in my room has been up all year!
I live in an area with families that can trace their roots to eastern europe and Russia. It is a tradition around here to leave the Christmas trees up until after “Russian Christmas”, which is always held on January 7th of each year (precisely 2 weeks after traditional Christmas). I like to keep the lights on up to that point and a few days later…say, up to January 10th. Then I begin the chore of taking things down.
We always take it down before Jan. 1. It’s supposed to be bad luck to keep it up past then.
Our tree is still up also… My husband took the outside decorations down the day after the Epiphany. But the indoor ones are still in place. The tree will probably get taken down and put away before the end of the month.along with most of the other decorations. The nativity scene will still be up until february 2nd. Having lived in several countries, my Christmas customs have a wide range, and our Nativity scene, whose figures are over fifty years old, dates back to the time we lived in Mexico, and there many people have a little fiesta the day the crêche is dismantled and the Christ child put away until the following year. I am a Christmas fanatic, If I could, I’d leave all of the decorations up during the year, and just give them a facelift at Christmas time.
Well, my usual tradition is New Years Day is the demolition day. I usually put it up the day after Thanksgiving, and decorate it. Decorating can take me up to a week before Christmas, because I am not home a lot. So as of today, it is still up and decorated. I have all the other little knick knacks put up, but not the tree because it is such a hugh hassle! So my new goal is to have it down by February 1st, or the Super Bowl.
I don’t know how people answer these questions. But if you’re Roman Catholic, tradition says you take it off after the Epiphany, which is January 6th. So by January 7th, it should already be off.
We always leave ours up till a couple weeks before next Christmas..And it’s a real tree, lol. We’re just incredibly lazy.
We throw water, eat 12 grapes, and run around the neighborhood with a suitcase…for luck and luck in traveling.
we take ours down like the weekend after new years.. they say it is bad luck to leave it up after new years though ha
I think people put their tree up way too early and take them down way too early. What has happened to the good old tradition of decoratiing the tree on Christmas Eve night? The days after Decembeer 25, your Christmas shopping is over and it is a time to relax and enjoy the beautiful tree, the beautiful music. People complain about Christmas being too commercial but they follow the commercial season of Christmas. Get the tree up and go shopping.
We always leave it up for a while. Eventually it gets depressing and we take it down.
ugh. my mother always took down the tree the 26th (no lie)
we started undecorating the same day.
this year i had to coax her out of it until the 29th.
therapy is working ;p
My best years were when I kept the tree up and “redecorated” it for Valentine (red hearts, etc.) then for st. Patrick’s (green shamrocks and leprachons), then Easter with Easter Eggs and and bunnies, not to forget my Birthday in May with lilacs and lily of the valleys, Memorial Day and 4th of July had little flags and rw/b streamers also for Bastille Day as that was Mother’s birthday. The needles finally started to drop so that ended it. Now I have an aluminum tree and I do the same thing. It is now sporting red ornaments and hearts with a red light wheel flashing around it.
Ever since I was little on Christmas eve, for dinner, we always turn out all the lights except for the Christmas lights (like the Christmas tree and any other ones we have on) and we get out as many candles as we can find and set them out on the dining table.
Then we bust out all different types of cheeses with crackers (usually just wheat thins or salteens or something) along with pickles and stuff. Then my mum always makes the BEST fried honey ham. We also usually have like salami or Portuguese sausage and stuff like that and we just dig in and eat whatever we feel like eating.
My dad usually likes the get the ind of candles that are like snow men or gingerbread man or weird looking santas because he said it looks funny after a while when they melt.
So yeah, we’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember and it’s something I shall continue when I have my own family.
We don’t decorate, so no problem for us.
According to the song “Twelve days of Christmas”- the first day of Christmas is on December 25th and the 12th day of Christmas is January 6th. So we take down the decorations on January 7th. It’s called the “Epiphany”
Traditionally, Our tree, decorations, lighting, etc, all goes up around the 15th of december, give or take a week or so. It stays up until about a week to week and a half after christmas day and then everything comes down in a single swoop. Usually the whole (immediate) family gets involved, or at least those who can.
We usually playfully argue with dad to put it up early or to leave it up later, sometimes we win, other times we don’t. Like I said, it’s a tradition and it is usually a crap shoot with dad and how christmassy is he feeling at the time.
This year was a bit different though, family fights and squabbles pretty much ruined the whole thing. Dad wasn’t in a christmassy mood plus no one wanted to hang around much or to be really honest, be around each other. Most of the problems lied with my sister being a rude, incosiderate b*tch towards most of the family.
My dad didn’t want to have my sisters kid over for helping with the tree because of my nieces attitude problems. My sister and brother were constantly fighting, as well as her with our mom, and her and her husband, and her and our aunt, etc. You get the point. It was a huge mess and no one really wanted to deal with it all.
It just turned into a big hassle for everybody and the stresses of it all really grated on my nerves this year, more than usual. The job did get in bits and pieces but it just wasn’t the same. I was tempted to avoid christmas altogether and just go to the movies but I didn’t. Suprisingly, dinner went off without a hitch. New Years Eve and that past two weeks however has been pure disaster but that’s another story, another day.
Catholic Tradition stipulates we leave the tree up until (some holy day) which is usually around my baby’s birthday, this year it was january 11th. (our tree is still up however)
Love the tree, but have a low tolerance for Christmas . It’s way too stressful and commercial. So my tree is lucky to see the new year. I’ve been known to take it down on the 26th. Seriously.
We took all our Christmas decorations down yesterday the 12th, but next year we’ll be leaving it up till the Feb.1st. The reason we didnt leave it up this year is because we bought a $30 Dollar General tree and it wouldn’t stay upright. I had to nail it the light cords to the wall to keep it standing up. It began to slowly pull away from the wall and the staples were giving in. So we just took it down. Next year the tree will be a nice expensive one! =oP
I’m so glad someone else leaves their tree up for as long as I do. My friends all laugh at me because I have an artificial tree that I usually put up the day after Halloween and I don’t take it down til the end of January. I just think it’s so pretty plus I collect ornaments so its nice to see them on display. They stay in a box all year and I literally count down the months until I can have my beloved Christmas Tree in all its glory….why would I only have it up for one measely month?? lol
I think it’s great you keep yours up for as long as you do and have made a tradition out of doing so!!
technically sunday was the end of the christmas season…
Growing up Catholic, we left the tree up until Jan 6th, which was taught to us that’s when the 3 Wise Men finally reached the barn to welcome Jesus. I know a few families who waited til Jan 15th to take it down.
As I got older & we didn’t go to church as often, the tree usually came down New Year’s weekend. My son & I use Thanksgiving weekend to put up our tree & take it down New Year’s weekend. One year, due to sheer laziness, the tree stayed up til February, light on too, but never turned on. I finally gave up & took it down by March 1st, LOL! The storage totes sat in my family room til we put things back up that year too.
2008 was similar, the totes never made it to the shed. Oh well. It was certainly easier to put things up last year. This year, the totes are still in the family room, as of 01-13-09, but that’s because I want them in my bedroom closet & am working on clearing the space out for the totes. They’ll be in there by this weekend for sure!
We usually start decorating around the 15th or so. This year we got off to a late start, due to no time/$$ to buy the tree, and didn’t decorate to the Sun. before.
Like a few other people mentioned, my dad grew up Russian Orthodox (my grandfather was Ukrainian) so we also celebrate Russian Christmas. So usually around Jan. 8-9 we take it down. I wanted to keep it up longer to the end of the weekend, esp. since we got such a late start this year, and I really felt Christmas came and went to quick. But dad took everything down Jan. 8.
BTW, I think it’s a really cool tradition to keep it up till your birthday. But being that it’s a real tree in your situation, I think you’re asking for trouble leaving it up for a month. Real trees don’t last that long, and create a fire hazard. I would at least take down the tree, leave the other stuff up. Or switch to artificial.
My mom sucked this year, she took the tree down on the 26th grrrr
My birthday is January 8th. I’ve always wanted the decorations down on Jan 6th (12th Night) partially because I dig the tradition of the 12 days of Xmas (which begin the night of Xmas Eve and end the night of 1/6) and because I want my birthday to belong only to me. I have family with birthdays in late July and don’t have to share their birthdays with any established holidays and get a whole new set of gifts, and I get presents wrapped in both Xmas and Birthday paper to save money. It wasn’t fair when I was 8 and it’s not fair now. So I at least get the satisfaction of my birthday sharing no decorations with a holiday of any kind. (Of course, I have to share with Elvis, so it’s never complete for me. lol)
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS MOST DEFINETLY TIME TO TAKE THE STUFF DOWN!!!!!
I am glad to know others don’t rush to take it down either.
I actually got most of my stuff down this week…but the tree is standing there waiting to be boxed. I have all the decorations done and everything boxed up and it all sits in the front room. has to wait for hubby to carry it downstairs….I can’t do it.
so here we sit….everything in the middle of the living room…(ON PURPOSE…last year I put it in the den and it was there until July)….and the tree is naked and waiting.
Hopefully while at work this weekend hubby will get motivated to put it away….
he has some heart problems so I am not rushing him….and I got some plastic tubs this year so we can “slide” them down the steps and it will be easier than carrying them.
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I am an overly organized OCD type person, who happens to love the Christmas season. That is until Dec. 24 and I am reminded of the maddness! So for me the enjoyable part of the season is over Dec. 23 and I am ready for it do be put away. However I obviously leave it till after christmas. For me I start “winter” decorating mid-late november. Then actual “christmas” stuff appears about a week before thanksgiving. The tree goes up 2 days after thanksgiving (too busy shopping black friday to do it). And it comes down either Dec. 26 or 27. I still leave up winter type stuff like snowmen and snowflake crap until about march. And then I start spring!!! One year when I was younger my mom opted to use a fake tree. Well she really hates taking it down so it actually stayed up until Easter (which was in early march that year).
I agree that your family can have it’s own traditions & that’s that! My family has always done the UNdecorating after 3Kings day,usually around the 12th. My x-mother-in-law used to put the tree up Christmas Eve AFTER the kids went ot bed. I never wanted to take that one on! There’s enough to do that night.Besides I love having it up as long as I can. I wasn’t real smart with my child planning with all three of my sons B’Days being within 6 weeks after Christmas! So the year always starts with a bang & doesn’t quit til after Feb, Then of course we go into Easter…oh don’t remind me! I better get busy!
Well in my house the tree is still up and half of it is on the floor (Fake tree) its been sitting on the floor for about 2 weeks, Where i live everything in the front yard has to be tooken off by Januray 20 if theres still christmas stuff showing we get fined which is kind of dumb but yah we usally leave it up intil the last thursday or friday of Januray.
glad to see i’m not the only one still enjoying my tree. it is so sad to take it down, my house looks so empty=( …not to mention the lack of motivation to do it! ugh!!! this tree might see march!!!
When I was growing up my mother always took care of the tree dismantling nightmare. She was far too organized of a person to ever allow impatient children to mess with her tree stuff. Decorating the tree was always a family affair. Even though I faithfully stepped on at least one string of lights as she untangled it…every year…without fail. The weird Christmas tree story I have is actually about a neighbor.
We had this eccentric neighbor named “June.” June’s husband had died, and she was a little batty. She swore he was still living in the attic of the house. Our parents all told us to stay away from her…but as far as us kids were concerned…she was harmless and too funny to stay away from. We flocked to her house.
Well…June kept her tree up 24/7…365. She just changed the decorations. She had a Christmas tree…a Valentine’s tree…an Easter tree…an Independence day tree…a Halloween/Thanksgiving tree…and then a Christmas tree again…all year long. Our parents were sure it was further proof that she was nutty…but us kids thought she was the best. What was cooler than a tree you kept up all year. I miss that quirky old broad. Wish my kids had known her. I know they would have loved her too.
I live in ND and sure still feels like Christmas time with all of the snow we’ve had. I am leaving mine up until the month of Jan is done.
umm when everyu you feel it should come down usullay a week or two after christmas
Na, I leave the tree up until easter, the rest cam go
My grandma has a “family room” where we used to have Christmases as a kid. The rest of the year it was filled with junk except on Christmas. She had an artificial tree that was up 365 days a year for 13 years. It was finally taken down after my cousins and I grew up and moved away. She left it up out of pure laziness.
i will be probably at home watching the live telecast. its too cold outside and besides, there are lots of television networks that will coverage it.
i know alot of television networks will be covering it so no worries always watch on the net
[b]Definately will not go to Vilamoura anymore, 6 Hour rounds of Golf and 4.5 Euros for a beer , we will stay clear of the Vilamoura golf courses this year, and the so called free shuttle bus turns up if you are lucky.[/b]