MMC Five Reasons NOT to take Down Your Christmas Tree Yet

[ElfBot]

We live on a busy Main Street in our little town. We have a large picture window at the front of our house. Each Thanksgiving weekend we look forward to the beacon of light our Christmas tree becomes along our bustling street. But as the week of Christmas passes and New Year’s brings the month of January our Christmas tree quickly falls out of fashion. One year we left the tree up so long in such a visible place the neighbors began to ask out of concern if we were not well. Nothing was wrong, of course. We just love our tree. America is known worldwide for a robust celebration of Christmas. It is also noted for being the firstRead more

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[e_xander]

I, unfortunately, had to take my live tree down today...it was shedding needles at a tremendous rate 2 weeks BEFORE Christmas, while it was still taking water, then it almost stopped taking water altogether. Every time someone would walk by, there would be a raining of needles, sometimes even when no one was near it. So, needless to say, it came down today, but the rest of the decorations are up until after Three Kings Day. We keep our live tree up until then, too, except for this year. It was not by choice, but necessity that we took Bruce down. Sad and a lesson learned for future Christmases.

 

[xmas365]

Our trees will remain up until the weekend of January 14 at the earliest, I refuse to take any decorations before my birthday. (Jan. 7) My out door lights don't get turned off until January 8.