The tree is down. My sister and her family weren’t even ready to pack the car to go home and my husband was carrying out our parched Christmas tree. Once the gifts are opened and A Christmas Story has been aired for the last time, the tree just seems in the way. Not only is it in the way, it’s using up precious room that I could be playing and moving furniture in. This is the part where I question why we weirdos go to so much trouble to bring a half dead tree into our house in the first place. Luckily, I’ll forget this feeling over the next 11 months. I’ve still got lots of Christmas I need to put away but the first thing to go is always the tree. I love to see it come in and I love to see it leave.
What about you? When do you take your tree down?
Wow, very interesting to hear how different it is for everyone. I’m with you — I enjoy setting Christmas up early around Thanksgiving time and then soooo ready to have it down right after Christmas. It’s bittersweet taking it all down, but I love the open feel in the house again and am so ready for the clutter to be gone. Love your blog!!
Hi!
I have been reading your blog for the last 6 months…enjoying it to the fullest. I have never emailed you, or even posted a comment, but feel like I have to today. This morning I went shopping with my son. We walked into Pottery Barn and I thought for a moment that I walked into your blog! Have you been in yet to see their spring things? The store has “nester” written all over it…birds, pillows that say nest, pillows with numbers…on and on. Wondering what your thoughts are?!
Some years I’ve rushed headlong into Christmas, and those years I’m sick of the decorations and take them down as soon as possible. Other years I’ve waited, and then leave everything up longer. Lots of folks in my home state of Louisiana take the Christmas decorations down and change everything up for Mardi Gras, so the tree stays up till Fat Tuesday, but decorated in gold, green, and purple. Mardi Gras wreaths are getting more and more common, too.
The part about rushing Christmas that I don’t like is the way the stores start pusching Christmas earlier and earlier–this year it was before Halloween–that’s just way too soon for me.