Sakaki branches are also offered on household altars and replaced twice a month, on the first and fifteenth of every month (up thru the Edo period, they were replaced on the first and fifteenth of each month according to the old lunar calendar).
家庭の神棚にも捧げられ、月に2度、1日と15日（江戸時代までは旧暦の1日と15日）に取り替える習わしになっている。