I don't decorate. It's just me in my house anyway. I promise myself every year that I'm going to get a tree.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I didn't this year as my littlest kitty is a terror and would have destroyed it all. I'm hoping she'll be calmed down by next year.

All my stuff was down after New Years but since I no longer have a yard... outside decoartions aren't an issue. Still have to take my mothers down, we will do that sometime in the Spring; there's 10 inches of snow and counting on her lawn I ain't about try to remove stuff.

CarrieMpls said:

Awwww.

I love getting trees that go up to the ceiling, but they can be a real bitch to take out by myself.
This year I got creative and Sawzall'ed the thing in half. Much better!

I'm slowly getting things put away now. We left the tree up for Rastafarian Christmas yesterday. All the smaller decorations are going away but the tree stays put until the baby comes home and we get some pictures. He was supposed to be here for Christmas.

Our outdoor decorations are still up--well the lights and some gigantic ornaments we have to climb a tree to fetch down! LOL In fact, or tree is still up, but at least we got the decorations off it..

We're going to take care of it this weekend or... at least we'll start!

We just didn't want to last weekend. In fact, we still turned-on our Christmas lights Sunday night--but so did all of our neighbors. So we aren't the only ones in the neighborhood a little behind.

Usually I leave them up til 12 days after Christmas but I got fed up of all the bloody dust, so I took them all down last weekend. A lot of my friends took theirs down by the 29th, but they were the same fuckin idiots who put them up half way through November

MrsGoodnight said:

You know what? We didn't get ours up until like a week before Christmas. We were so busy over Thanksgiving. One of our relatives died, and that very weekend, our oldest dog had a stroke, and we had to put him down...

So we were late in getting them up. We usually like to put them up the weekend after Thanksgiving, so we can enjoy them for a little while.

whatever was holiday oriented was down gone the next day when i was left wonder what it was all really for.

Cuddles said:

I took down all the nutcrackers today. I doubt I'll ever stop putting trees up, but I'm definitely noticing a trend. I downsize/simplify a bit more each year.

Surfaces! I NEED SURFACES!!!

johnart said:

I too have been doing this for 4-5 yrs now

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Yeah I don't see much point as I also leave my residence during Christmas Eve and don't return until the 27th at the earliest.

This is the first year I brought out a short tree before the holidays.
BUT I never decorated it, and I didn't put it away either.

I am festive in other ways... music, santa hats, etc

Cinnie said:

Keep it up all year. You're going to have to put it up again in about 11 months. I feel the same way about making my bed each morning....

This year I WILL GET A TREE!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

matthewgrant said:

We spent the whole entire f*cking day doing just that today.

Mine go up on the 13th and come down on the 6th - bad luck otherwise.

If anyone still cares about seeing holiday pix in mid-January, here's my black tree that I photographed with my cell phone right before I took it down last weekend.




The base of the star broke off when it was shipped to me so I just sat the thing on top of the tree without the base. It really needs to be seen at night to get the full effect, but my phone takes sucky pictures at night. I need a real camera.

sextonseven said:

OMG I LOVE IT.

sextonseven said:

You know what? I'm just gonna pretend that this was posted on MYYYYY Photowhore your HOLIDAY DECORATIONS thread and that all is good with the world.

sextonseven said:

I'm lovin' your black tree!!

About a week before Christmas, my tree gave up on life. It stopped drinking water and by last weekend when we finally took it down, it was brittle and brownish.

When I moved it outside, I left a thick layer of pine needles behind me. Thank goodness we don't have carpeting!!!

johnart said:

I'm lame. Sorry.

sextonseven said:

I still loves ya.

johnart said:

nice tree sextonseven

lazycrockett said:

Put my shit back in their boxes on new year's day.

sextonseven said:

I love it.

Acrylic said:

Me too ! Really stylish .

Serious said:

If you say so then I know it's true, Martina.