When will you take them down?

LordSutch

Will take them down on the 6th or 7th, maybe the tree one day, and the decorations the next?

Amazing how many houses already have theirs down, some of whom had their trees up on the 1st of December :cool:

Traditionally, the twelve days of Christmas starts on Christmas day . . . .

Royal Irish

I took mine down on the 2nd, and I stripped the Christmas tree of all its branches and cut the main part up for a couple logs and burned them on the fire that night.

thegreatgonzo

BBDBB wrote: »

feck it, leave em up all year

My uncle did that! Nothing feels as Christmassy as an unlit tree covered in cobwebs in July.

DoozerT6

I don't own any Christmas decorations! Doesn't really seem any point when you live on your own.

Clonmel1000

The people who had the lights on visible from outer space are amongst the first to take them down. Always find that weird. Ours come down after the 6th

Aidric

Only managed to put 8 Christmas cards on top of my home office desk this year. I'll take 'em down when I'm good and ready.

Pumpkinseeds

Took them down today. Wasn't sorry to pack them away, didn't get into Christmas this time.

KKkitty

Right had a few lazy days this week but they came down today. Every single decoration and tree is up in the attic. Nice to have the house back to normal.

harry Bailey esq

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Should be down New year's day, Xmas is long over.

id be of the same mindset as yourself,for me it should come down new years day,but its always the sixth round ours.Old traditions die hard i suppose

January

Came down yesterday... when you've three young kids your sitting room just gets cluttered with toys and stuff... tree had to come down to make room for the huge dolls house they got.

lilymc

Tomorrow. When Christmas drags on I get into a rut. I'm back at college Monday so want the house tidied and back to normal, so that I'm back into normal routine Monday.

Pang

Took them down New Year's Day. The earliest I have ever have done it. I felt they were cluttering the room and I needed to desperately declutter.

.jacksparrow.

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

id be of the same mindset as yourself,for me it should come down new years day,but its always the sixth round ours.Old traditions die hard i suppose

Who celebrates Xmas on the 3rd of january? Or today even.

It was over ages ago.

Barnaboy

delw wrote: »

Seen the Easter eggs in Tesco my self today,have to say was a little tempted

It's all part of a cynical plan :mad:

They have to be sold at an artificially high price for a certain period before they can sell them on sale at a 'reduced' price. All the big supermarkets do this all the time.

Teyla Emmagan

My sister was going out with this fella, and when she went back to his found the Christmas tree up. In June. His excuse was that it was 'the spare room'. It sounds like a house that should be on a tv show called 'Extreme Hoarders' (if there was such a thing) though. The bathroom door only opens about 8 inches because of all the rubbish behind it.

KKkitty

I know some people are traditionalist in nature but it honestly doesn't feel like Christmas anymore so why keep them up any longer.

JupiterKid

There's nothing wrong in having the tree and decorations up for a couple of more days - just as there's nothing wrong in taking them down early.

Each to their own.

Local-womanizer

Put the tree up, keep it up. Call it a Easter/Halloween/President's day tree etc in accordance to the holiday. That way you never have to take it down.

ProudDUB

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Who celebrates Xmas on the 3rd of january? Or today even.

Lots of people do. It's not about celebrating Xmas on the 3rd of January. It is about tradition of celebrating the entire Christmas season, not just one day. The 6th of January is the Epiphany, aka Feast of the Three Kings. It is an official part of the religious celebration of Christmas & it is the last obligatory Mass going day of the period. Traditionally, decorations stayed up until the 6th, as that was the day that the three king figures were put into cribs in churches & the cribs that people had in their homes once upon a time.

We are no longer a nation of Mass goers, so people are no longer as tuned into that kind of religious tie ins as they used to be, but it is still a tradition that a lot of people observe. I was out and about today in the Malahide, Howth/Sutton areas today and lots of people still had their trees up and more power to them !

.jacksparrow.

ProudDUB wrote: »

Lots of people do. It's not about celebrating Xmas on the 3rd of January. It is about tradition of celebrating the entire Christmas season, not just one day. The 6th of January is the Epiphany, aka Feast of the Three Kings. It is an official part of the religious celebration of Christmas & it is the last obligatory Mass going day of the period. Traditionally, decorations stayed up until the 6th, as that was the day that the three king figures were put into cribs in churches & the cribs that people had in their homes once upon a time.

We are no longer a nation of Mass goers, so people are no longer as tuned into that kind of religious tie ins as they used to be, but it is still a tradition that a lot of people observe. I was out and about today in the Malahide, Howth/Sutton areas today and lots of people still had their trees up and more power to them !

Each to their own bit the majority of people nowadays don't give two fs about the religious part of Xmas, but as I said each to their own!

freshpopcorn

If you drive around the majority of houses still have there decorations up. They also keep the Christmas lights switched on in towns/cities until the 6th.

Agricola

I'll keep em up til the 6th. Probably because I hate the fact that everyone is now so material, that Xmas starts in early December and ends on the 26th when all the presents are opened and the food is ate. Fúck that. January is long enough. The first week of it is still Xmas to me!

ProudDUB

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Each to their own bit the majority of people nowadays don't give two fs about the religious part of Xmas, but as I said each to their own!

Fair enough, but Xmas DID start out a religious holiday & it still is for a lot of people. If you are putting up decorations in the first place, you are being a party to that, whether you confess to being into the religious part of Xmas or not. I get that lots of people decide to pick and choose the Xmas celebrations that they are a part of. They choose to opt out of the religious side of it & just be a part of the secular fun stuff, like the decorations and the prezzies and the tins of Roses. I get all that.

But it doesn't change the fact that Xmas started out as a religious observance. It still that for a lot of people, who observe the traditions, such as leaving their decs up until Jan 6th. For the 'pick and choose' brigade to then mock them and criticize them for doing so strikes me being rather hypocritcal, seeing as they are more than happy to do the 12 Pubs Of Christmas tours of duty & accept a boat load of socks/scarves/talc/gift vouchers & time off from work, all the name of the wee baby Jesus, when it suits them.

I am no religious nut btw. I took my tree down yesterday, as it was starting to die & I just couldn't be arsed looking at it anymore. I just think that people other knock others for leaving them up until the 6th need to get a clue as to why that is.

I got back to my own place yesterday and took them down today because I'm back in my routine from Monday and I just want everything done before real life begins again.

It all looks bare and ordinary without the sparkles and the gaudiness. It's just plain old depressing January now

I'd love to leave them up, but practicality wins.

iguana

ProudDUB wrote: »

Fair enough, but Xmas DID start out a religious holiday & it still is for a lot of people. If you are putting up decorations in the first place, you are being a party to that, whether you are into the religious part of Xmas or not. Lots of people decide to pick and choose their Xmas celebrations and choose to opt out of the religious side of it & just be a part of the secular fun stuff, like the decorations and the getting prezzies and the tins of Roses. I get that.

But it doesn't change the fact that Xmas started out as a religious observance. It still that for a lot of people, who observe the traditions, such as leaving their decs up until Jan 6th.

Actually Xmas started out as a variety of different pagan holidays and most of the traditional decorations are pagan and many, like decorating a tree, are forbidden in the bible. The picking and choosing has been going on for a long time. I plan on doing something special for each of the 12 days of Christmas for my son, ending with the 12th night party I described above. But only because I think it will be so much more fun than having so much great build-up to one day that I actually get sad as Xmas approaches because it means the fun is nearly over. This way Xmas day itself will hopefully the best, but not last, day of a jam-packed 3 months of awesome (as we'll also be doing December ADVENTures, DINOvember and going all out for Halloween).:D

donegal_man

Well that's that for Christmas 2013/2014. All the decorations packed away for another eleven months.
At least we had two this year, girlfriend's brother & his fiancee had Orthodox with us on Tuesday and we decided to leave the tree and a few bits up until they headed off again yesterday evening.
Maybe do something for a combined Burns Night-Chinese New Year at the end of the month. Any excuse for a party.