I take them down on January 1st as I am drinking a mimosa celebrating New Year's Day. Makes the job much more enjoyable !

I take them down on NY Day as well. Minus the mimosa tho...;)

Patricia
7:52 am on Sunday, January 6, 2013
When my children were younger they stayed up until I could convince them I HAD to take them down. (Yikes, one year it was April.). They loved them and I did too. Now that they are older, one is an adult and the other in his late teens, sadly to say I didn't even put one up this year. If I were to have to give an answer, I would say mid January after they return to school.

I take mine down the morning after Christmas. My husband calls me 'Scrooge' but we have 2 birthdays the 27th and 29th and I like to just move in to the next celebration cleaned up!

Moe takes down his Christmas tree whenever Mrs. Moe tells him "We need to take down this damn tree"(probably today)

Tree comes down today. I leave it up for a week after the New Years, along with all the other decorations. I really dislike that everything looks so bare and unfestive. Then again, it's nice to have a very clean house.

I must admit that I love looking at my Christmas tree on which I have placed many patriotic ornaments. Last year time predictably crept forward through January, February, March, etc., until finally it was the 4th of July. A friend seeing my tree still standing and fully decorated in my family room, remarked: "Given all of your patriotic ornaments, your Christmas tree is in keeping with the spirit of the 4th. Hence my tree stayed up. I never gave any thought of taking it down for after all Christmas was only a short six months away! With the coming of December and all that had to be done, putting up my Christmas tree was not one of them.

P.S. I really must take my Christmas tree down this year. The end of January would be a good time for me.

We are going to start chopping up the tree, from where it sits in the front room, and throwing the pieces into a bonfire on New Year's Day. A sacrifice.. an excuse for a party.

First weekend after New Years, or today.

In the Catholic liturgical calendar, Christmastide ends with the Baptism of Christ which falls on Sunday January 13 this year. I guess I'll take my tree down on Jan 14.

Day after Christmas? Wow, that IS a little early. My friend has a birthday on Jan. 3rd and she wants the tree down by then, too, so it doesn't take away from her bday!

New Year's Day. A bittersweet task, since I love my tree, but I love its sweetness when my husband Noel & I decorate it on his b-day Dec 13th.

At St. Nicholas Church, here on Ridge Avenue in south Evanston, we'll leave the Christmas decorations in church up through Sunday, January 13th this year. (The date of this feast falls on different days each year, depending on what day of the week January 6 is.) Our creche, however, located in the south shrine of the church, will remain in place until February 2,on our calendar the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, and 40 days after Christmas Day. This is the season of carnival--a kind of anti-Lent, a time to rejoice and feast before the days of fasting. It is a Latin American custom to keep the nativity scene up until February 2, and about 40% of our parish is from Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, mostly Mexico. We encourage our parishioners to keep their home decorations up at least through January 6, the 12th Day of Christmas. All--Catholics, other Christians, those of other faiths, those without faith or organized religion--are welcome to come and visit us here at St. Nicholas at 806 Ridge Avenue! David Philippart

This is another flawed survey...the answers need an option for AFTER Jan 6 - the Epiphany - not BY Jan 6!!!!

January 1st is the day the tree and decorations come down!!!

I have yet to take mine down ... My living room is too cozy with my Christmas tree. Maybe by the end of the month =D

I slowly start taking decorations down after Christmas. Maybe about a few days after. The tree just went back in it's bag for next year this past week. I put up early, like the tree without ornaments before Thanksgiving. Have lights outside put up early,(when still warm out) not lit, until night of Thanksgiving and stop lighting them and take those down, on New Years Day.

why celebrate Christmas if you are so eager to get rid of it. I think OCD sets in when the 26th comes and people are rushing to pack the ornaments and take down the tree. Sad

We have a Dickens Christmas Carol village and Santa's North Pole village (both Department 56) aside from our tree and Chanukah decorations. I've just begun to pack up the decorations but it will take about a week to get my living room back. I can't wait!

Well, since I don't put them up, I don't have to take them down. I enjoy looking at everyone ELSE'S decorations :) [I should say that I *do* have a Charlie Brown tree, but I don't have to bother decorating it ... the ornament is already on it, LOL!]

My dog is happy some people took them down and threw by the street ;-)

why take it down? Lots more chances to use it with Valentines Day ,St Patrick's Day, Easter then use it for Halloween and its Christmas again

Sometime this week... we have too much going on... while the kids are in school.
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Take YOUR tree down when YOU want to!! Everyone's different. Make up your own mind and do it when you feel the time is right. Does it really matter when other people say its time???

We put ours up the day after Thanksgiving and take them down the day after Christmas. I love them during the season, but after the 25th they become clutter to me. I don't need a Chirstmas tree up to celebrate Christ, I do that all year long. Happy New Year everyone!

When I was just out of college, I shared a 3 bedroom apt with 2 roommates. We'd get a real tree in mid-Dec, then wait to see how long the thing would hold its needles. The one who came closest to guessing the correct date was the one who DIDN'T have to help take down the decorations. One year it lasted until nearly June!! Luckily, I was the one who got to WATCH the other 2 take it down. There were needles everywhere. It was also a good thing we had only hardwood floors then. This year, it's unusual to still have it up past New Year's Day.

Valentine's Day. We have collected Hallmark Homes decorations since we got married a quarter century ago. We make a winter scene with them on the mantelpiece every year, so it really isn't just Christmas we're celebrating; Valentine's Day seems appropriate.

Certainly not BEFORE January 6. Christmas doesn't begin until December 24 anyway, and it lasts until Epiphany. The traditional Christian date (that is, not secular) for taking down Christmas decorations is February 2, Candlemas.

Then, so soon after that, we have Carnival and Mardi Gras to celebrate. Yay! Of course, Mardi Gras then heralds the solemn, sacrificial season of Lent :(

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