I keep mine up till the weekend after New Years...But shouldn't be such a chore taking it down this year as I only put 1/3 of it up on top of one of my speakers. It's getting to hard to put the entire tree up by myself (which is over 8 ft tall). My kids laughed at me and said that in the past I have always had the huge tree with all the decorations, this year it was a nice compact tree mainly yorkie decorations...