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Christmas Tree: Up or Down?

Transforming a simple little tree into a thing of beauty with a lot of love and attention – and some canine star power – are Charlie Brown, Snoopy and other members of the Peanuts gang in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." (CBS / The Spokesman-Review)
Transforming a simple little tree into a thing of beauty with a lot of love and attention – and some canine star power – are Charlie Brown, Snoopy and other members of the Peanuts gang in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." (CBS / The Spokesman-Review)

If you've got an artificial tree perhaps it doesn't matter so much, but today's the day many of us with real trees start to ponder just how long to leave the tree up. Is it losing needles or in the way?

Some folks don't take their tree down until New Year's Day, and some take it down the day after Christmas.

When do you take your tree down?

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.