My mother-in-law took down the tree day after Christmas. She couldn't stand the mess the needles made. I used artificial trees. Left them alone as long as adult kids were enjoying and cats weren't climbing or eating. Kids usually took things down the weekend after New Years.

I've got a tabletop prewired artificial. I just shove it in a plastic bag and store it whenever I want to.
I made a nice mini tree skirt for it. That gets plastic bagged on its own and tied to the tree.