When Should You Take Down Your Christmas Tree?

Before you take on the daunting task of taking down the Christmas Tree, perhaps you should take a look at these dates.  Are you superstitious?  Taking down the tree too early or too late may bring you a streak of bad luck.  What do you think?

Here are some dates that are better to take the tree down on and an explanation why:

December 31: Take your tree down on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes midnight.  If you don't, then you will drag all the bad luck and misfortune from the past year into the new year.

January 5: Traditionally, the twelfth day of Christmas.  Consider it the closure to the Holiday season.

January 6: Take it down on this day in observance of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday marking the revelation of God in human form, in the person of Jesus. Again, some would say leaving your tree up beyond the 5th or 6th brings bad luck.

It's illegal in Maine to have Christmas decorations up after January 14th.  Hhhhmmm.  My tree is coming down this weekend.