Garfield by Jim Davis for December 29, 2024

The Christmas tree’s ornaments are different than the ones from last Sunday

Another holiday tradition. According to these guys, anyway.

Bachelors

Yep, then we can use it to celebrate Christmas in July

hang some ❤️s on it and voila… a Valentine’s tree!

Epiphany.

My mom haven’t taken it down too

I just unplug my fake one, put it in the loft and swap back my light I have there the rest of the time.

April, stand she will

When boughs are stipe and welled with pain

May, she will still stay

Resting there in peace again

June, she’s a mange soon

In clueless ways we’ll howl all night

July, she will fly

We gave a warning to her flight

August, out she must

The needles rests fall chilly and bold

November, I remember

As this year’s Xmas tree we reuse the old

In the Netherlands where I live, we put up the Christmas tree and/or decorations after December 6 after our other holiday (Sinterklaas) and it will remain up at least until January 6 (Epiphany); that’s how it should be, that’s all part of the holiday season.

7 months!? That’s some professional level procrastination

Not yet till Twelfth Night which will be on January 6th.

I used to do the same thing as kid.

Every year I ask myself if I want to just leave them up. Ah dear.

Ho ho ho!

Traditionally you keep the tree up until the fifth of January. Most folks here at least keep it up through Hogmanay and to the second. The season ain’t quite over yet. The American rush to get Christmas packed away so quickly before even New Years is almost as bemusing to me as their rush to start it as soon as Halloween is over.

Is it time to take them down in Usa already? Baby blues has the same subject? hTps://www.gocomics.coM/babyblues/2024/12/29

Hang bunnies and you’ll have a Easter tree

I hope it’s not a real tree!

You have another week until Epiphany, or be Orthodox and have even more time!

I’m with Jon. In fact, leave it up year round for cheerfulness.

If Liz were with them, she’d be exasperated with that decision.

Happy Festivus !!!

Lazy procrastinators astound me. Same with hoarders.

After all the build-up, I always needed a wind-down before taking down the decorations. (If you do it right, the holiday season goes from Halloween to St. Patrick’s Day and gets you right through the winter!)

I’ve always waited until the day after new years to put mine away!

It’s too pretty to take down now. It’s still December, after all!

Centuries ago it was customary to put up the Christmas tree and other decorations on December 24. December 25 was the First Day of Christmas and the season ran for twelve days until the evening of January 5, which was called Twelfth Night. In some cultures Twelfth Night was as big of a celebration as Christmas Day. It was also the night when Christmas decorations were taken down because the following day, January 6, was the Epiphany or Three Kings’ Day.

Neighbor: Why is your tree still up? Jon: We’re starting a new tradition, Easter trees!

I’m surprised Jon bothered asking Garfield for help, it’s clearly too much like hard work for both of them

Better hope the Fire Marshall doesn’t hear about this.

Because we had some things going on that delayed putting up our tree and other Christmas decorations, I don’t see us talking stuff down till the end of this week. Christmas is great, but you need to move on.

I hope Lowe’s accepts is as a return in July. Well, they probably will.

Fake trees are so much better than real trees

Amen!

Sure! Who says it has to last once a year?

“Don’t rush me. Don’t rush me!”

i once left my Christmas tree up for 9 years

Feels more like a January problem! :-0

Why so soon?

Well considering they only put it up last week, it would seem logical to take it down in July.

I’m all for that. Brings a smile to me everytime I look at mine.

We’re bachelors, baby.

If it’s still that green, it’s artificial anyway.

The season ends January 5th. We always keep our tree up and lights on until then. Then we have to wait until March or so for everything to thaw enough to take all the outside decorations down.

Driving in the dark this morning was depressing, hardly anyone had still had their Christmas lights on, last week it seemed like everyone did and the world was bright and cheerful even in dense fog

Just 7 months left to burn, batter, and destroy the tree. In other words, getting rid of it.

relatable.

Some people leave their lights up year round!