Ok. Tonight, should I finish taking down my Christmas tree...

[Maddy McCall]

or mildew and watch a movie or two?

(I know...damned tree should have been down a month ago. :shrug: )

[ClassWarrior]

1. Take it downnnnn, dammit... take it dowwwnnnnn...

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

<LOL>

NGU.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Pssst

Don't tell anyone, but I still have my creche up...and a lovely Christmas tree candle thingy.

[Maddy McCall]

4. I love to collect beautiful ornaments...

and I have an exquisite collection. I had no intention of leaving my tree up past Mardi Gras, but, oh well. :toast:

[Midlodemocrat]

Me, too.

I always buy something meaningful from every trip we go on, and I have a lot of antique ones that were my grandmother's.

I love having the tree up, but here in VA for some reason, people put their decorations up right after Thanksgiving and start taking them down the 26th of December.

When I lived in CT, it was not at all unusual to see people with their Christmas lights still glowing and breaking the February gloom.

[Maddy McCall]

14. I've noticed that, too.

At least a couple of weeks into January, everyone used to still have their trees up.

Perhaps it's part of the commercialization of the holiday--that now, when you walk into department stores, they already have Valentines and Easter stuff out by the beginning of January.

Ahhh well. I'll take it down tonight. :-)

[yellowdogintexas]

19. I think it is because everybody has to get the tree UP before the

Thanksgiving weekend is over. Not me, mine never goes up before the 15 of December. I put my outside lights up before I put up the tree.

[Maddy McCall]

22. That's usually when I put mine up...a week before Christmas.

Well, I'd better get off DU and get busy. Gonna pack the ornaments now. :(

[amazona]

27. trees supposed to come down on Jan 6, the Epiphany!

Memory blurs but it was never proper to my knowledge in the U.S. south to leave trees up "a couple of weeks into January," they were supposed to come down when the kings arrived on the 6th of January.

Hence the song about the 12 days of Christmas.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Solly Mack]

3. I unplugged mine and stuck it, ornaments and all, in a spare closet

I really need to take it down. lol

I thought I was the only one. :)

[Maddy McCall]

6. Should we start a DU group, then, for people who still have

Christmas decorations up? :-)

[Solly Mack]

10. Maybe a group to talk us through the process?

Cheer us on and give us support?

[Maddy McCall]

11. Have you ever caught any of my...

"Talk me into getting up off my ass and cleaning my house" threads?

Indeed, I always need encouragement. I hate "inside" duties...would much rather be doing stuff outside. :-)

[Solly Mack]

13. Yeah. You asked if I was your mother in one :)

I guess I sounded like your mom...or maybe it was grandmother. :)

lol

[Maddy McCall]

17. I remember that!

LOL! :toast:

[Dookus]

5. Why bother?

you're only a little over 10 months away from needing to put it back up again.

[Maddy McCall]

7. YEah, and I can take the Santas off and throw up a few bunnies....

for Easter, and then a few flags for Independence Day, and then a few....well, you get the picture. :-)

[Padraig18]

8. Ermmm..... finish?

:P

[Maddy McCall]

9. Yeah, I got most of the ornaments off....

but they are sitting on every available surface in the living room. It looks like complete havoc in here. :-)

[6000eliot]

12. I thought I was the only lazy one!

[Maddy McCall]

15. Read above. We're going to start a DU group for us...

house chore procrastinators. :-)

[yellowdogintexas]

16. I just got all my stuff put away last week. I will admit to leaving my

tree up until nearly Easter one year.

[Maddy McCall]

18. Wow! You rule!

I never made it to Easter. You truly are the ruler of holiday take-down procrastinators!!

:toast:

[yellowdogintexas]

20. Thank you! It was just a bad year all around! Of course I did

not have very much stuff out this year, so I had no excuse at all for leaving it up until the end of January....

HOWEVER!!!!! My white fairy lights are still up, I have decided I like them; many of the Mexican families around here have some sort of little lights year round, so I may just leave them.

Of course I could put up green ones with them for St Patrick's. pastel ones for Easter, Red/blue ones for the "Patriotic Season" etc.

But that would be actually organized....so don't hold your breath.

As for me, I just need to give my kitchen a good once over and do some laundry ..

it won't be perfect but it will be an improvement..

(that is my housecleaning, yard working motto!)

[RetroLounge]

21. Well, I took down the Xmas lights today off the house

So yeah, go for it...

RL

[Kali]

23. Yeah do it

or at least put the ornaments away so they don't get broken. I just took mine down last Saturday. I try to get it down before the first in-house birthday of the year which is Feb 7. I dream of getting it up between Dec 5 and 10, (and down by mid Jan.)cards out by the 10th as well. Usually end up doing the tree 23rd or 24th. Cards, wll sometimes they are New Years cards. haha

Lights that are outside generally stay - they are good for summertime parties/bbqs. Heck two sets of inside lights stay up for the same reason!

[New Earth]

24. LOL mine is still up too

i don't wanna take it down :( it's hard work!

[amazona]

25. take the tree down or tell people you're French

What's the deal with the Christmas tree still up in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on January 31? For all I know, it's still up!

:-)

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Hang some hearts on it and call it a Valentine's Tree!

Yeah..that's it...and then shamrocks...and eggs....and flags....:hi: