Because, the thing is, I’m always ready to take it down a few days after Christmas.
It is waiting. In a bucket, out the back door.
I’m ready to rumble. Got the Milwaukee Super Sawzall to give it a nice, refreshing, sap-free spot to suck up water,
and dog and cat are all set to freak out as I drag an evergreen through the kitchen, leaving a trail of needles. But
I hope not too many.
Ok. I’ll take a pic when I’m done.
In Ireland the Feast of the Immaculate conception is traditionally the day people go to town for christmas shopping, the school are off etc. Anyhow, a lot of people put up their tree and decorations on that day. Things stay up until Nollaig na mBan. ‘the Women’s Christmas’ or ‘Little Christmas’ on Jan 6.
Not sure what to do myself, gravitating a bit towards no tree at all to be honest, or at least a very small one. Asked a traveller kid in Ennis the price of a small tree yesterday. ‘35 euro’ he said, the little chancer. I didn’t get it.
Right now I’ll put a few lights in the windows, light over darkness. Like that better than the tree-stuff.
My wife has a standing request that I try not to put up the tree until after Passover, but this year Passover starts too late, so I’m putting it off a couple more days I guess.
Ours is waiting trussed up in the garage. I’ve got an axe to trim the end, because I’ve fed up spending an hour and a half sawing the end of the thing so it fits in the tree-holder. Don’t tell me to get a bigger tree holder. They don’t go up any bigger. It’s ridiculous as it is.
We put ours up as late as possible, as it means rearranging the living room. And it always comes down on January 5th.
Ours traditionally goes up on the Solstice, and comes down on January 2nd. The former is much more reliable than the latter.
April 27 is too late to put up a Christmas tree? I thought I put mine up early (usually the Sunday after Thanksgiving). 
We got rid of the tree right after Christmas a couple of years ago. We planned on buying a new one at 50% off but we forgot to do that. Then when we went to decorate the tree the next year, we realized we didn’t have one. We hung the garland over everything in the livingroom and hung the ornaments from the garland. This worked so much better for us that purchasing a new tree is moot.
we used to be hardcore natural-tree fanatics: 
mixed up special food + everything… 
But now, 
I’m thankful to say, 
we’ve gone plastic, and it completely rules!! 
Got lights installed on it & everything. 
Mind you, it’s still a pain to haul it down from the attic, 
but faaaarrr less rigmarole than what we USED to put ourselves through! 
I used to work at a group home that had a walk up attic. We kept the the lights and the decorations on the tree all the time and just put a sheet over the tree when it was stored in the attic. Voila! Instant Christmas.
We try to make the decorating a family event. I usually pawn it off on the kids (all now 16 - 23!!) while I fix tasty stuff for eating while we sit back and admire their handiwork. It takes up so much of the really precious space in the house though, that I dread it this year. I’m politicking for just the upper half of it this time.
Our 40-year-old artificial tree is up but not completely decorated yet, as this week has been just hectic. Every year I say we should replace it, every year I look at the price of a new one and say the old one is good enough. It looks fine by the time we get all the lights and garland and stuff on it.
We usually put the tree up just after Thanksgiving and take it down New Year’s Day (which drives my husband crazy because he’s always trying to watch a football game and I’m always in the way!) This year it went up about a week later than usual.
We’re heading up the mountain in about half an hour to cut one! (a tree, that is)
T
Ha!!!
I meant, of course, Hannuka.
There we go…now that wasn’t so bad. Eclectic, yes. So bad, no.
Pretty.
neo-minimalist, imo.
I’m a member of the coalition to stop tinsel.
cats
you don t mean… oh no…not the…
Coalition Against Tinsel Stringing?
'zatly 
cats + tinsel = bad