Comments on: Sorry, Your Services Are No Longer Required Mr. Tree

By: Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:12:57 +0000

Okay, AEB, I’ll seriously think about taking down my blinking lights when the sun comes back to my place — which is usually by January 25th. How did you know that I’d named my lights Flossy, btw?

By: AEB

AEB — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:10:43 +0000

Not EXACTLY relevant, but of interest: according to the Farmers Almanac site, the days now grow longer by about a minute per day and an hour per month.

So, presumably, one’s need for holiday decor of the flossy light-up kind should decrease concomitantly…..

By: ABC

ABC — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:18:33 +0000

never take the tree down until Jan 6th (easier in my old life when I didn’t leave for a week over dec 25th and come home to a dry tree)

By: Brooklynite

Brooklynite — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:43:36 +0000

that is what i was referring to anchor in my previous post :-)

By: anchor

anchor — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:04:17 +0000

and in many traditions – i can speak personally for puerto rico’s – there is a large celebration to mark the epiphany, or three king’s day, on 1/6.

By: bornhere

bornhere — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:55:09 +0000

I used to be stunned by the trees up right after Thanksgiving and down before the Cardinal would urge everyone to go in peace; but then, at least to make sense of it, I decided that the early-up/early-down trees might belong to people who have vacation plans that take them over the river and through the woods but who still want a little Christmas at home. Or not….

By: Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:38:06 +0000

I’m amazed at people who put their Christmas decorations in the trash the day after Christmas. Couldn’t they wait until January 1st or so?

I like my Christmas lights, and I’m nominally Jewish myself. Last year I took them down in March (though I didn’t have them on every night). I’m not looking forward to the two dreary months of depressing Winter, until Spring. Because of the buildings across the street, I won’t have sunlight coming back to my place until the end of January. Doom, gloom…

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:40:52 +0000

I like when people cut up the trees and put the small pieces (branches) onto their small front grassy areas/gardens. It looks nice, may be good for the soil(??), and is better than putting it in the garbage.

By: Brooklynite

Brooklynite — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:46:23 +0000

Here’s a little insight on why some people keep up their Christmas decorations into January. Reminds me of a song “12 days of Christmas”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Christmas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(Christian)

By: GHB

GHB — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:59:40 +0000

Who cares how long the neighbors keep out their decorations? It adds a little color to the neighborhood during this rather grey period. And I’m Jewish…

By: AEB

AEB — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:16:31 +0000

One can xpect xmas detrius to be a grim reality for several weeks to come.

But I’d rather see it on the way out than hanging (in every sense) on. Hear that, dear neighbors who keep Christmas decor going well into January?

By: my2cents

my2cents — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:51:46 +0000

[insert outraged green comment here]