Is your Christmas tree still up?

[Lee Dog]

Many families in the U.S. and Canada will put up a Christmas tree soon after Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November in the U.S.), and Christmas decorations can show up even earlier in retail stores, often the day after Halloween (31 October). Some households do not put up the tree until the second week of December, and leave it up until the 6th of January (Epiphany). In Germany, traditionally the tree is put up on the 24th of December and taken down on the 7th of January, though many start one or two weeks earlier, and in Roman Catholic homes the tree may be kept until late January.

In Italy the Christmas tree is put up on the 8th of December (Immaculate Conception day) and left up until the 6th January. In Australia, the Christmas tree is usually put up on the 1st of December^{[citation needed]}, which occurs about a week before the school summer holidays; except for South Australia, where most people put up their tree after the Adelaide Christmas Pageant in late November^{[citation needed]}. Some traditions suggest that Christmas trees may be kept up until no later than the 2nd of February, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas), when the Christmas season effectively closes.^[35] Superstitions say that it is a bad sign if Christmas greenery is not removed by Candlemas Eve.<sup>[36]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree#Dates</sup>

Is your tree still standing?

[EvenflowTen]

Tree was taken down on Saturday. The lights outside were taken down on Sunday. We didn't put the tree up until maybe the first or second week of December.

It was kind of funny that I usually take the lights down when it's nicer out than when I put them up. It just happened that this year it was 4 weeks later, and not 4 months.

[det2orl]

Nope just took ours down last weekend.

[mtdman]

Nope just took ours down last weekend.

This.

BTW the article is full of ****. I've seen christmas stuff in stores as early as September.

[GaryAngel]

Tree itself is still up!!! Yes I like to annoy people!!!

[Ryedog]

My Tree is still up. However I havent turned the lights on in a few days in fear that it might go up in smoke being all dried out!

[TG7782]

Mines still up because apparently I'm not allowed to take it down myself since putting all the ornaments away is some serious thing and my wife hasn't got around to it.

I guess I'm just not qualified.

[GaryAngel]

Mines still up because apparently I'm not allowed to take it down myself since putting all the ornaments away is some serious thing and my wife hasn't got around to it.

I guess I'm just not qualified.

I didn't used to be either, now that it's just me at the house, it is up to me to be qualified now!

[The Great Gazoo]

gone last weekend...

[CrazyJoe79]

Always put ours up the day after Thanksgiving, take it down on New Years Day. By the time NYD rolls around, it's just too dry to keep around.

[TG7782]

Ours is fake and pre lit so all we have to do is take the ornaments off but that is quite a chore and I am assured it will take multiple hours to complete. I don't even try to understand it, it'll get taken down eventually.