Friday OT: Holiday hangover

[coolerifyoudid]

How long do you leave up your Christmas tree, decorations and/or lights? For lights, how long do you leave them on at night after Christmas?

It seems like some neighborhoods shut it down almost immediately after Christmas, while others stay lit for weeks afterwards. I wondered if there was neighborly peer pressure to do one or the other.

If you saw the title and want to talk about your actual holiday hangover, that is also acceptable.

 

[MJ29]

I usually take the tree down the day after Christmas, but this year I wasn't feeling well in the days after Christmas, so I waited until New Year's.

 

[wxman1]

How long do you leave up your Christmas tree, decorations and/or lights? For lights, how long do you leave them on at night after Christmas?

It seems like some neighborhoods shut it down almost immediately after Christmas, while others stay lit for weeks afterwards. I wondered if there was neighborly peer pressure to do one or the other.

If you saw the title and want to talk about your actual holiday hangover, that is also acceptable.

Tree-varies but we wanted the space back so it came down last weekend
Outside lights-I took down what I could easily do and shut them off on the 2nd.
The remainder of the inside decorations are slowly coming down as we have time.

 

[Blackhawk6515]

Tree and decorations come down January 1st. Always. Out with the old.........

 

[Al_4_State]

Our's is still up. It's up to my wife. She's the one who gets into that ****, so she can take it down. Or at least put it in a tote that I have to drag downstairs.

 

[Gonzo]

We'll take our stuff down tomorrow. I've stopped dismantling the artificial trees and shoving them back into their boxes and instead just take the ornaments off and then down to the storage room still assembled and cover with plastic bags. It's very nice not having to reassemble and straighten out all the individual branches when we put them up, and I think the lights are lasting longer not being crammed into boxes.

 

[CyHans]

We wait until at least new years and then it's up to how motivated we are. I like turning the lights on the tree at night while watching TV. Just kind of keeps the holiday feeling going a little longer.

 

[KnappShack]

The tree has been rebranded as a "Spring Tree" and left up into April in years past.

If it makes the family happy and isn't hurting anyone...have at it.

 

[dmclone]

I'm fine with people leaving their stuff up for a few weeks but I don't get why they light up the lights on January 4th.

 

[CoachHines3]

we have a 10 foot fake tree that i swore i was going to drag out into the yard and burn after this year because i can't stand draggin' that big fkn thing up the narrow basement stairs and through narrow doorways and hallways (we live in a house built in 1907) but guess what?

its back down in the basement.

im getting a real tree next year.

 

[AgronAlum]

My wife has had the inside decorations down by noon on Christmas Day the last two years. The outside lights stay up until it’s nice enough to get on the roof.

 

[carvers4math]

We keep everything up through the Epiphany

 

[CYdTracked]

Indoor decorations came down Jan 1 this year and that's the norm most years for us. I usually at least turn off my outdoor lights after Jan 1 too then take them down when I have time and weather is not crap. Probably putting my outdoor stuff away this weekend, in past years if we had a brutal cold snap or bunch of snow they've sat outside until February before I got to them but at the very least I unplug them from the timer after the new year.

 

[BCClone]

Wife decides. Generally around Dec 30th the tree goes down. I was a person who was content with a tree up the 23rd and down in 26th. When I was single I didn’t have a tree. Made it simple.

 

[Dopey]

Everything down on Dec 26th this year.

Only thing that ever impacts that date is if there is really crappy weather for the outside lights.

 

[PineClone]

we have a 10 foot fake tree that i swore i was going to drag out into the yard and burn after this year because i can't stand draggin' that big fkn thing up the narrow basement stairs and through narrow doorways and hallways (we live in a house built in 1907) but guess what?

its back down in the basement.

im getting a real tree next year.

I'm tired of dealing with christmas trees. I was out hiking this fall and found the perfect tree. Then suddenly decided it would be a shame to cut it down. I guess I've gone soft. So I decided to start researching alternatives and ended up settling on decorating a 12' step ladder. The wife liked the idea so we went with it. She has been working on a lego christmas village, so this offered a place to display it. Next year we will paint the ladder green with some white spackling....orange doesn't really work. I think we're done with trees forever.

 

[Bret44]

I like having the tree up, but it will probably come down this weekend. Living room always feels empty, but since we got a boatload of new toys for the 8 month old for Christmas, I am guessing those will now fill that spot.

 

[MJ29]

I'm tired of dealing with christmas trees. I was out hiking this fall and found the perfect tree. Then suddenly decided it would be a shame to cut it down. I guess I've gone soft. So I decided to start researching alternatives and ended up settling on decorating a 12' step ladder. The wife liked the idea so we went with it. She has been working on a lego christmas village, so this offered a place to display it. Next year we will paint the ladder green with some white spackling....orange doesn't really work. I think we're done with trees forever.

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This is actually really cute.

 

[wenkeej]

we have a 10 foot fake tree that i swore i was going to drag out into the yard and burn after this year because i can't stand draggin' that big fkn thing up the narrow basement stairs and through narrow doorways and hallways (we live in a house built in 1907) but guess what?

its back down in the basement.

im getting a real tree next year.

@CoachHines3 getting his tree next Christmas. We will have to revisit in a year to see if it goes as well as it did for this guy...

 

[wenkeej]

Wife decides. Generally around Dec 30th the tree goes down. I was a person who was content with a tree up the 23rd and down in 26th. When I was single I didn’t have a tree. Made it simple.

Same here. Sometime after Christmas but usually before New Year's unless we are having late Christmas guests.