It’s January 7th did you take down your tree?

[peenie 1,915]

Is your Christmas tree still up? When will you take it down?  

My decorations are still up. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

Nope, the Mexican's are coming over Saturday to take down the tree and lights outside. 

[WhiteWonder 2,734]

5 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Nope, the Mexican's are coming over Saturday to take down the tree and lights outside. 

who will do it next year?

[MDC 7,405]

I’ll take it down tomorrow for Thursday trash pickup.

[WhiteWonder 2,734]

my lights and the few decorations I put up are still up. The tree is down and gone. 

 

rumor has it digby is still figuring out how to get rid of his tree from 2018

[The Real timschochet 6,756]

Tree came down a few weeks ago but my Harris/Walz sign is still up! 

[purdygood 352]

Yesterday, last tree pickup is my garbage day tomorrow.  Any tree over 6 feet needs to be cut in half so I karate chopped it.

[Tree of Knowledge 1,855]

I don’t put up a tree on January 6th.  I fly Old Glory proudly and bring it down at dusk. 

[Nomad99 741]

We drive around town chipping Xmas trees residents put at the curb......eleventy hundred so far....

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

1 hour ago, WhiteWonder said:

who will do it next year?

Other Mexicans  

[thegeneral 3,207]

1 hour ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Nope, the Mexican's are coming over Saturday to take down the tree and lights outside. 

Weak!

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Weak!

Dude, my house is almost 4,500 square feet. I'm not dealing with that crap. I pay a crew $500 put up and take them down. It's a steal. I do tip them well off course. 

[thegeneral 3,207]

2 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Dude, my house is almost 4,500 square feet. I'm not dealing with that crap. I pay a crew $500 put up and take them down. It's a steal. I do tip them well off course. 

The lights are barely acceptable, get out there and Clark Griswald that shet IMO.

The tree, hell no! Gotta do that yourself. It’s part of the whole season. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

5 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

The lights are barely acceptable, get out there and Clark Griswald that shet IMO.

I like that  

[jerryskids 6,790]

12 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Dude, my house is almost 4,500 square feet. I'm not dealing with that crap. I pay a crew $500 put up and take them down. It's a steal. I do tip them well off course. 

My last house was that size, but we've since downsized to about 2500 sq ft.  Regardless, I've always enjoyed setting up the lights myself.  They in no way look professional, but I look out every night and morning and think yeah, I did that.  

I'm on a cul de sac with 8 houses where I'm basically the only person who does lights.  The house next door to me keeps their lights up all year -- they change them from white to multi-colored during the Christmas season.  The house across the street has one faux tree display out front.  Otherwise, nothing.  Several of the folks have second houses that they go to during the holidays, which I understand, but it's a bummer that there aren't more lights here.

Regarding the OP, the Catholic Christmas season goes through this weekend where we celebrate the baptism of Jesus.  I mentioned in another thread that we are heading to Detroit this Saturday for a memorial service, so I'll get down what I can Thursday/Friday, but probably just turn off the power to the lights before we leave and deal with it next week.   

[thegeneral 3,207]

2 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

My last house was that size, but we've since downsized to about 2500 sq ft.  Regardless, I've always enjoyed setting up the lights myself.  They in no way look professional, but I look out every night and morning and think yeah, I did that.  

I'm on a cul de sac with 8 houses where I'm basically the only person who does lights.  The house next door to me keeps their lights up all year -- they change them from white to multi-colored during the Christmas season.  The house across the street has one faux tree display out front.  Otherwise, nothing.  Several of the folks have second houses that they go to during the holidays, which I understand, but it's a bummer that there aren't more lights here.

Regarding the OP, the Catholic Christmas season goes through this weekend where we celebrate the baptism of Jesus.  I mentioned in another thread that we are heading to Detroit this Saturday for a memorial service, so I'll get down what I can Thursday/Friday, but probably just turn off the power to the lights before we leave and deal with it next week.   

Yep. It’s part of the deal, get out there fart around with the whole setup. Have a beverage. Maybe add some stuff every year. Love it.

 

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

5 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

My last house was that size, but we've since downsized to about 2500 sq ft.  Regardless, I've always enjoyed setting up the lights myself.  They in no way look professional, but I look out every night and morning and think yeah, I did that.  

I used to do it in our other house. I like decorating and lighting up the boat house (gazebo) and dock. It looks awesome Christmas time. 

[jerryskids 6,790]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Yep. It’s part of the deal, get out there fart around with the whole setup. Have a beverage. Maybe add some stuff every year. Love it.

 

Yeah, I didn't add anything this year, I was too busy and just happy to recreate previous years.  Next year I want to add some stuff.  It's hard to rally tho, when my neighbors aren't doing it.   

[Death 302]

Everything comes down the day after Christmas, and the tree went atop this huge burn pile I've been building for months. Once the weather cools, I spend weekends brush hogging the woods behind my house to improve the view from my back porch.

Three or four huge trees fell over back there during a storm with high winds, so I'll be chopping up those fockers until April.

As it is, the burn pile takes up about 400 square feet of ground and is about 10 feet high. 

It will be visible from orbit by the time I set it off.

[thegeneral 3,207]

25 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Yeah, I didn't add anything this year, I was too busy and just happy to recreate previous years.  Next year I want to add some stuff.  It's hard to rally tho, when my neighbors aren't doing it.   

Hopefully you inspire them.

[listen2me 23 1,873]

Have not but planning to this weekend.  Id rather leave it up a couple weeks rather than put it up like a day after Thanksgiving.  Seems more fitting that way at least to me.  

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

18 minutes ago, Death said:

Everything comes down the day after Christmas, and the tree went atop this huge burn pile I've been building for months. Once the weather cools, I spend weekends brush hogging the woods behind my house to improve the view from my back porch.

I can respect that. We have a lot of storms here so I burn quite a bit. 

[Death 302]

1 hour ago, Maximum Overkill said:

I can respect that. We have a lot of storms here so I burn quite a bit. 

A few years ago I created a trail through the woods to the creek, where there is a waterfall. It's about 100 yards, but the woods back there are full of coyote holes, thorny vines and lots of downed trees and limbs.

Once spring started, the woods reclaimed that trail in a matter of weeks.

I've managed to create about 25 yards of back yard through brush hogging, but everything I've tried to clear since then just gets grown over in a matter of weeks.

It's kind of creepy back there, and I always feel like I'm being watched when I go in there. I put a game cam back there and got pics of deer, a bobcat, coyotes and a flying squirrel, which took me a while to identify. I've run across a bunch of snakes, including copperheads and a huge king snake.

I haven't seen any signs of wild hogs - which are out of control in Texor - but they'll get here some day, and when they do, I'll shoot the fock out of them.

The abandoned coyote holes are useful for burying cats that die on us. The red clay is hard to dig through, plus there are roots galore.

Some day long after I'm gone, someone will run across those cat graves and wonder what the fock went on here.

Every year, we take in a couple of old, diseased cats that were set for euthanasia in a shelter because no one wanted them. They spend a year or two in love, care and comfort before they cross over the rainbow bridge, with us giving them their lives' best years.

And people wonder why we do it.

 

[Maximum Overkill 1,988]

2 minutes ago, Death said:

haven't seen any signs of wild hogs - which are out of control in Texor - but they'll get here some day, and when they do, I'll shoot the fock out of them.

Damn, you need to come to SC and shoot some of these hogs for us! We're being invaded 

[Death 302]

1 hour ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Damn, you need to come to SC and shoot some of these hogs for us! We're being invaded 

Mindlessly slaughtering hogs with a semi-automatic weapon, machine gun or explosives is high on my bucket list.

[WhiteWonder 2,734]

7 hours ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Dude, my house is almost 4,500 square feet. I'm not dealing with that crap. I pay a crew $500 put up and take them down. It's a steal. I do tip them well off course. 

I’m not sure what the size of the house has to do with it? Are you one of those who covers the entire house with lights? Those people are usually hardcore about it and I would think it loses meaning if you pay someone to do it for you like a soy boy. 
 

some of the best decorated are the ones who line their driveways, do a small tree or two, and focus on the porch/steps/front door/overhang etc. maybe a string across the roof line. Size of home really isn’t an issue. 
 

man up

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

I just put my tree away last night.