when do you take down your christimas tree down?

i often wonder when is the right time to actually take down your tree? it's a sad moment that a tree you worked so hard on has to face a trash dumpster and that is the end of that tree and then 11 months later you do the practice all over again. i Beg for a Artifical Christmas Tree like Keith Sweat at a Begging convention gathering. and if you have listened to Keith Sweat you know he can beg with the Best of them. all the decorations took time and you had to have the right parts to have your tree stand out. so i tend to only want the tree down after a few days past New Years day. the sentiments and feelings in the air though make me want to see the tree until febuary. so when is the latest you have kept your tree up? did People look at you crazy? all the creativity and time it's so hard to part with that very tree and the Irony so many trees are cut daily but a Christimas tree holds a certain sentiment.