[Strangler Lewis]

When I was a kid and we had a fake tree, we kept it up through my birthday in January. Now, we generally try to take advantage of one of the Boy Scout/Girl Scout curbside pickups in early January. This year, though, we were late in getting the thing decorated. We might keep it up a little longer, and I'll just chop it up and throw it in the bins assuming it does not dry out. Once it starts getting dry, out it goes.