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@moira @gintoxicating My family not infrequently left our tree up year round. But we also had fake trees (grew up on military bases where real trees weren’t allowed) so it wasn’t much of a fire hazard.

@djwudi @gintoxicating …whyyyyyyyy?

I mean, did you have to dust the ornaments? How many strands went out a year? Did you have the more expensive “ones goes out the rest stay on” lights?

@moira A combination of factors; high on that list was mom's disabilities and general enjoyment of holiday "stuff". Sometimes the tree would come down at a generally-recognized reasonable time, sometimes it'd come down around February or March, and sometimes, well, why bother?

Probably should have been dusted regularly. Probably wasn't. Lights didn't get turned on year-round, I think.

@Elizafox @gintoxicating ok but why is August more likely than July?

@oblomov @Elizafox @gintoxicating that's just noise in the data.

The better question is: why aren't February and November more prominent? If the middle of the graph is "those who are too late and too early", there should be slopes on either side.