When do you take down your Christmas tree and decorations?

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WIth no kids around anymore, i only put up a few things anyway, just for the GD's to have fun playing with a few things. I am doing a snow scene with 3 small fiber optic lighted trees that i got on sale and some white battig for snow nad some little ceramic houses for nder neath. But I usually took stuff down on New Years Day - mainly cause it was back to work the next day and it'd be weeks before I'd have time to deal with it all after working and dealing with new year stuff at the job. But... when my daughter was 3 I had a 3 foot artificial one and the year before I was always on her about not touching it. I thought, Good grief, this little one just wants to see the fun and cute things the bright lights and fun ornaments. So the next year when she was 3 - almost 4, i used the same tree but went and bought all wooden or plastic ornaments. Really cute one and fun ones and kid ones. I let her decorate the tree as she wanted to and then let her be in charge of the tree. Every single morning hte first thing she'd want to do is take down all the ornaments and put them back up again after she checked eac on and talked to the character it was. This was the cutest thing and she never missed a morning and I didnt' want to dissapoint her....so that tree was left up until February!! It was then that she started to miss mornings so I took it down. Did this for about 3 more years! Christmas is to be enjoyed and make memories - sure did make one for me! And just think, all over taking down decorations!