When do you usually take DOWN your Christmas tree?

[Nye Bevan]

21 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Between Christmas and New Years Day
	4 (19%)
	Around New Years Day
	1 (5%)
	A week or so after New Years Day
	6 (29%)
	Around Martin Luther King Day weekend
	0 (0%)
	Later than Martin Luther King Day weekend
	0 (0%)
	No tree for me
	10 (48%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Xipe Totec]

1. 1993. or 1994. Memory gets fuzzy.

[GP6971]

2. All Depends on when the holiday falls

[onehandle]

3. Take it down? nt

[Kalidurga]

5. LOL that is what I was thinking.

[Initech]

9. "Hey what does this switch do?"

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Don't ask Homer!

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[Initech]

15. That's where I got that joke from!

[Behind the Aegis]

17. I thought you might have!

It's funny how many of us love to reference "The Simpsons"! A year or so ago, I made a response to someone claiming their misuse of a word was "perfectly cromulent" and "embiggened DU for it's use"...a few people got it.

[Initech]

19. Six degrees of The Simpsons.

There's so many jokes that you can take that have been made in the last 20 years that can be linked to the Simpsons. It's insane. I started watching that show when I was10, I'm 35 now and they're still producing new episodes!

[niyad]

23. you beat me to it!

[cwydro]

4. Always after New Years.

I don't like it up after that.

Everything gets put away in the Christmas trunk.

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Usually within a week after New Year's Day. Not that we're Catholic or anything like that, and need

to keep everything up until Three Kings' Day, but it's just how it always works out.

[struggle4progress]

7. Twelfth night

[pinboy3niner]

8. Our Irish tradition had it come down on 'Little Christmas,' January 6

Little Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Christmas

[Hekate]

37. My dad always called it that. When I grew up, any gifts I sent late I'd always add...

.... "Have yourself a merry Little Christmas."

I didn't know it was Irish tradition to take the tree down on Little Christmas (we were about the only Irish Americans where we were, so unless our mother told us something specific, we didn't know) -- but it always seemed reasonable to get the tinder dry tree out of the house by then.

[HubertHeaver]

10. Usually get the old one down in time to put the new one up.

[JeffHead]

11. No tree for me.

The more commercialized it gets, the more I hate it.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. What about those of us with a Chanukkah Bush?

[aidbo]

36. Please don't take this the wrong way..

Will delete if this offends, but couldn't resist.

[Ron Obvious]

14. January 6th...

... which I believe is the traditional date of Epiphany and also happens to be our anniversary.

That is if we're even going to put one up in the first place and not just spend the winter in Hawaii, San Diego, or Tucson.

[Tree-Hugger]

16. Epiphany

January 6.

[kydo]

18. January 6

Epiphany, commonly known as Three Kings’ Day in the United States, is on January 6. It celebrates the three wise men’s visit to baby Jesus and the end of the Christmas Season.

[markpkessinger]

31. I do January 6 also, but an Episcopal priest friend of mine argues that the Christmas season...

. . . extends to the Feast of the Presentation (Feb. 2). That's a bit too much Christmas for me, however!

[Basic LA]

20. 1st Trash Day After New Years.

Even if you don't have a real tree.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. I was raised...

...in a family where, if you didn't take your Christmas tree down by the New Year, everyone would die.

......

Also, don't wash clothes on New Year's Day or -- you got it! -- everyone would die.

......

[markpkessinger]

32. Never heard the thing about not washing clothes on New Years, but . . .

. . . in my family, you just might die if you didn't have sauerkraut and pork on New Years Day.

[spanone]

22. my landlady and dearest friend in the world kept her tree up year round.....

one of the aluminum trees from the 60's

[HereSince1628]

24. Usually -I- do not take down the tree.

I take down the garland from around the entry.

I am not trusted with ornaments.

[bigwillq]

25. Sometimes before NYE

Sometimes soon after NYD

[uppityperson]

26. After the needles gather on the floor. A few falling is ok, a bunch and out it goes

onto the burn pile.

[kwassa]

27. The three wise guys, er, men take it down on January 6. I had an epiphany about this ...

but I don't remember what it was.

[Hekate]

38. Bwaaaaa.

That was good.

[d_r]

28. We left ours up last year

We got used to having the lights there and never went and got a lamp.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. around January 14 - Ukrainian New Years

[markpkessinger]

30. I'm a bit of a traditionalist about this . . .

. . . My tree goes up on Christmas Eve, and remains up for the twelve days of Christmas. I take it down on January 6 (Feast of the Epiphany).

[Reter]

34. Why the rush to put it up so early?

Seriously, I thought I was late putting mine up last night.

[Nye Bevan]

35. You would have gotten along very well with my mother (nt)

[Reter]

33. 20% here are insane

Taking it down before New Years is nuts.

[Yorktown]

39. No tree, a Festivus Pole

[slipslidingaway]

40. One year in February, last year it was April ...

nothing has been normal here for the past 5 plus years, we just make a joke about it and are happy to live another day.