I took the Christmas tree down today! I’ll really miss it…but its the middle of Lent! Still, seeing lit at night was really cool! Especially since we are still deep in winter up here!
Why take it down? Why not just add season-appropriate decorations on top of the existing ones? A layer of valentine hearts would have covered up those pesky snowmen and reindeer; next month, cover that with a bunch of construction paper easter eggs and shamrocks… 
At least, this is what we keep threatening to do every year.
Of course, we’re not as slack as you are. We took the decorations off the tree at least 2 weeks ago. however we did not put the tree itself away until last night.
Wow, keeping your christmas tree until the second half of February is really long.
Every year, we decide in our family to keep the tree until February 2, because that’s when christmas season ends accordnung to Catholic tradition. Every year we don’t implement that decision and take it down some time in the middle of January.
There’s also a Garfield cartoon about keeping your christmas tree throughout the year and re-using the previous one.
Quit bitchin’, fer cripes’ sake. Sure it’s February, the longest goddamn month of the year, containing a minimum of six weeks of unrelenting, bone-chilling cold, and reams of snow shuffling out of the sky to bury our cars and driveways. But just think! Only two more months of winter, then springsummerfall, then we get to start all over again! Gaaahhhhh. GAAAAAHHHHHH! GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
:: glances guiltily at the Santa wall decorations above the bookcase ::
Bone chilling is right. I have to wear a sweater sometimes, after the sun goes down.
I actually did that with the 2-dimensional Halloween skellyton on my door one year…I made him some rabbit ears, a little flag, a Santa hat, a birthday hat etc. He was festive. I just love skeletons, so I didn’t really need an excuse.
::glares murderously at the monitor for five minutes:: :mad:
Aw, poor Christmas tree. Did it get proper funeral rights, or did you leave it lying out on the curb, like a murdered hooker?
My mom has a 4 ft. “pencil” tree (it’s really thin) that she keeps up all year. She decorates as appropriate for each month. In, Jan. it’s snowflakes, Feb. is hearts, March is shamrocks, etc. She even has coordinating lights and garland.
This thread gives me a chance to ask a question that has been on my mind. We took a trip up to New England at the end of January and noticed that many,many folks still had their tree up and all the house decorations on ,and lit. Now I’m from the south and its not unusual to see light left up all year(its considered very tacky though), but they are unlit after Jan 1st. Thats the cutoff here. If you still have your tree up past Jan 1st you are ,thought to be really lazy, or worse yet “white trash”. There fore I fold to pressure and take my stuff down on the first. Except for the giant wooden nut cracker in the den. He may stay up year round as he has become part of the everyday decore…