Sorry if this has been asked already, but I searched and it didn’t come up.
This past holiday season was the first one in a great while I’ve actually been able to get the tree up AND decorated before Christmas Eve, and I’m so pleased with the results I’m damned reluctant to take it down. Husband is taking down the outside lights this weekend and I feel he’s hinting I should do likewise indoors, but it’s just so PRETTY and holiday-like in here!
I work at home and I’ve got this beautifully decorated tree behind me, a fireplace adorned with our Christmas cards and decorations, and I just don’t want to let it go yet.
In the words of Elvis, Oh why can’t every day be like Christmas?
Came down the Friday after Christmas, once I got home from my parent’s house.
What? It was blocking the heater in my living room and it was cold in my apartment when I got home. It’d only been up for about a week and a half anyway. At least this year I put one up.
The twelve days of Christmas notwithstanding, I grew up being told that it’s bad luck to leave the tree up past New Year’s. And I don’t need any more bad luck!
yes. It’s only the 9th day of Christmas. If I were a really good Episcopalian, I wouldn’t have even put the ornaments and decorations up until christmas eve. (sorry, but I’m not–they went up about 1 week before)
I have a seven foot tall abstract metal sculpture that an artist friend of mine gave me. Its basically a curving tapering piece of rusty metal with ragged holes in it, set in a box of white sand. (its all clear coated, so it doesnt rust anymore). After he gave it to us, we put it in our family room, and it happened to be in the same place we normally put our tree. So one year, the artist who made it and his girfriend were over for dinner, and me and th artist were talking…we looked over and Mrs. BDGR and his girlfriend were stringing lights and decorations all over the sculpture…I half expected him to be offended but he found it amusing…It has been our christmas tree eversince then. So it stays up year-round, sans lights…We will probably take down the lights in a week or two…maybe not though.
Mine’s still up, but I’ll probably take it down this weekend. I hurt my back in a car accident, so it took me forever to put the damn thing up in the first place. I hesitate to dismantle the product of so many hours of bending and stretching, with yet MORE bending and stretching.
Mine has been up since last Christmas, but it went through several mutations during the year. It is a small white artificial tree. In February it will be decorated for Valentine’s Day. Then it will be adorned for St. Patrick’s. Then it will be a spring tree, then 4th of July/red, white and blue, then Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas again. It’s a seasonal/holiday tree.
Eh, Vivalostwages, unfortunately mine is a tinderbox in a few days if not watered properly (and I’m threatening to use the stand after it’s gone as a the cat’s water bowl, they love it SOOO much!)
That sounds pretty cool - I may adopt your way of thinking about a seasonal/holiday tree - but where does one find the all of the seasonal ornaments? Firecrackers on a tree…didn’t work in the Sims and I can’t see it my house. But I just might try it-
I just found an American flag beaded cushion thing half-off in a Christmas shop. Obviously it will be for the 4th of July tree. You never know what might become an ornament.
You can check out a local arts and crafts store and get garlands for the other holidays and seasons.
Artificial tree. “The Association” allows externally visible holiday decorations up no more than 30 days after the holiday (liberal?) so we’ll definitely take down the outside lights and tree before Jan. 25, but maybe not much earlier than that.
