Advent Calendar ~ Day 4!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

4. When do you take the tree down?

 

For the last few years it has been, conveniently, right after I go back to school, so I don’t have to put up with it. At least, that’s what they tell me. All I can say is it does indeed go down sometime between January and March. I will narrow it down to “whenever Mom gets completely sick of not being able to sew because we took down her workbench to put up the tree.”

 

My favorite part of getting rid of the trees, though, is seeing all the signs at various random city lots saying “DON’T DUMP YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE HERE, GODDAMN” which invariably have at least eight Christmas trees piled in front of them.

 

I want to know why taking the tree down isn’t as much fun as putting it up.  I mean, yeah, post-holiday letdown, but is that the only thing?


EDIT: Whoops, leftqueenlyzard's response up!  This is what I get for blogging when dead tired.