I agree. We never manage to get our tree up that early, but we definitely leave it up till Epiphany, along with the electric candles in our front windows.
We still have somewhere (I hope) a Super 8 projector AND a splicer, not to mention the home movies (color but silent, as we’re that old). I don’t think we have the camera, though. Used to have a Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder until someone unaccountably stole it from our storage locker (fortunately omitting to take the tapes).
I was awake, with local anesthetic (having vowed, after my first delivery, that I would never have general anesthetic again, a vow I kept until my first—and last—colonscopy), so I was aware of the surgeon commenting that my wisdom teeth were the worst impacted he’d ever seen.
After straightening our tree three times (it was just determined to yearn toward the east), he said he would just give in and string guy wires to the nails he put up last year for the same reason.
I agree. We never manage to get our tree up that early, but we definitely leave it up till Epiphany, along with the electric candles in our front windows.