My SO wants to leave the tree up until Spring Festival so that her family might see it. :smack:
I’m an atheist, and I’ve always had a Christmas tree. I love the Christmas season, have since I was a wee atheist.
I used to keep it up til Epiphany but the holidays were so blah this year, and the weather so wacky, I took it down on January 2. Most people I know did it then, too. I never really got in the Christmas spirit this year (well i sorta did but it was way early) and having the tree up wasn’t doing anything for me.
It was 55 degrees this past Saturday. I took the outdoor lights down.
It’s still up, but we just had our last Christmas party on the 9th.
Couldn’t vote - there’s no button for ‘it varies’.
It varies with me, this year was too rainy to hustle the thing outside before last Sunday. I tend to agree with some of the responses above that it’s a nice offset to the winter blues. After Christmas, it’s just winter. Blah.
Not a Christian – have Christmas tree*.
*though it’s fake
What does a Germanic tradition have to do with baby Jesus anyhow?
We always put the tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and it comes down the weekend after New Year’s.
Took ours down on Monday but that was a combination of being lazy/busy (justifying the lazy portions with the busy portions). Normally, it’d be down within a week of New Years Day.
I didn’t have a tree, but I did put up a few decorations. They are still up, since they make me happy. I might leave the wreath up all winter (it’s turquoise and copper, with peacock feathers).
I’m atheist now, but I was raised Lutheran, so the trees came down around Epiphany (Jan 6).
That said, I’m a slackass and so my own tree is currently still up. I’m hoping to find time to get it down over the weekend.
ETA - since other people are listing when they go up, it’s the traditional Thanksgiving evening activity - all the kids and un-sporty moms do the trees and decorations (and the first round of cookies!) while the menfolk and the sports-interested watch tv.
I have some vestigial Ukrainian heritage, used to celebrate Ukrainian Christmas (January 7th) with my family when there were more of the older generation alive. Now I leave the tree up until at least the 7th out of respect for tradition.
This year, I bought a little fiber optic tree from a dollar store. It is still up. We didn’t decorate it with any kind of ornaments, so it doesn’t really look explicitly Xmassy. It would be more of a pain to try to pack it back in the box than it is worth (about $10), so we will probably just leave it up until the bulb burns out and toss it.
Mine is amusingly, half-up. It’s a cheap plastic tree, and this is the year we decided to retire it. Having just moved, however, we haven’t had room in the garbage can/recycle bin to get rid of it, so we are doing it piecemeal.
No, but I barely got it up in time. I have no idea when I’ll take it down–to be honest, this is the first I thought about it. It’s a small tree, and it’s not blocking anything, so I just don’t even think about it.
If it were up to me, we wouldn’t have one at all. But since we are a democracy in our house, we do what SWMBO wants. 
We put the damn thing up before the 25th and she won’t let me take it down until after January 6 because of some kind of religious bugaloo.
My father has always argued that this is the One Correct Way - the tree should be up until 12th night, and then taken down as soon as time permits. (He also says most people put their Christmas trees up much too early, and generally waits until the week of Christmas to do so). I’ve never had occasion to question this - it seems reasonable, I grew up with it, and no one else in the family has a strong opinion, and so thus it has ever been.
My wife’s German mother says German tradition is not to take it down until 12 days after Christmas. So, we don’t take ours down until then.
I leave mine up all year to get the free electricity and light from the tree.
Last time I set up the little artificial tree I own was easily over a decade ago. It’s been down a Looooooonnnnnggggg time. 