Taking down the Christmas decorations

Nightfever80

I'm taking down the Christmas decorations today.

Anyone else taking them down yet?

jam_mac_jam

I wish. They have to stay up ages more in my house.

Traditionalists. Sigh. I am back to work tomorrow so Christmas is over.

Happy4all

Nightfever80 wrote: »

I'm taking down the Christmas decorations today.

Anyone else taking them down yet?

No, this year has been gloomy enough, so I'll leave the lights on etc until the new year at least.

logically

Keeping them up until the Epiphany,.as is customary in most Christian homes.

whisky_galore

Never put them up, why make work for yourself?

laurah591

Nightfever80 wrote: »

I'm taking down the Christmas decorations today.

Anyone else taking them down yet?

Took em down yesterday!!!

Patsy167

I've seen some neighbors with Christmas decorations up already - Christmas is over 360 days away!

logically

Patsy167 wrote: »

I've seen some neighbors with Christmas decorations up already - Christmas is over 360 days away!

America is very different to Ireland.

Mine will come down tomorrow, and I'll give the house a good clean in preparation for new years eve and new year's day. Stayed of work this week.

Oh no we will keep them up as long as possible. I love them

I Am The Law

Jan 6th.

SnowyMay

Would throw it over the balcony at this stage.

Hasn’t been a good year.

Kraftwerk

I need to figure out some way to use the lights before I take everything down. I don't want to go back to the dreary non fairly light world. Life is just better with fairy lights.

Pherekydes

Usually take them down on the 6th. They're staying up this time, until the Fcuking pandemic is over. I'll take down the tree and the Santa sh1t. But the lights are staying.

Graces7

logically wrote: »

Keeping them up until the Epiphany,.as is customary in most Christian homes.

Or leave them up for the full " forty days of Christmas" . In some traditions the year unfolds in Forty Day periods. I do that sometimes and may this year.

SusanC10

7th January in this house. Tradition !

munstergirl

Take them down 6th January,. Also there are 12 days of Christmas not just 1.

Think people who take them down days after Christmas put them up too early.

Captain Lugger

6th of January, always. In addition 2020 has been what it was and I'm not in a hurry to get rid of the Christmas sparkle just yet.

i lovewine

Jan 6th

Hyperbollix

Jan 6th. I hate the consumerism/commercialism of Christmas so it would go against the grain to fire them into the attic on the 27th of December, as is becoming very popular.

Badly Drunk Boy

Candlemas, obviously. The correct day to take them down...

Gruffalux

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

I wish. They have to stay up ages more in my house.

Traditionalists. Sigh. I am back to work tomorrow so Christmas is over.

I want to take the tree down but my husband won't let me. I can leave the lights and other stuff up but the tree is shedding and it annoys me. But no....not allowed. He is surprisingly stern about this!

Usually leave up some fairy lights during the year anyway - lovely lanterns I got in Hungary.

Guess I will have to keep sweeping up damn needles for another week.

Montage of Feck

I don't get it, the people that have the decorations up since Halloween haven them down already and Christmas isn't even over yet.

CelticRambler

I usually make an effort to get the last of mine down by Good Friday. :pac:

This Twelve Days limit was something I was really pleased to leave behind when I moved to the Continent. Here, party season runs from 31st December to Mardi Gras, and you can't have a good party without lots of lights and baubles. :cool:

Hyperbollix

Montage of Feck wrote: »

I don't get it, the people that have the decorations up since Halloween haven them down already and Christmas isn't even over yet.

It's a sign of more and more media fueled consumerism, fully taking over what Christmas is supposed to be about. If you have shít to sell, Christmas begins in September/October and ends on Dec 25th.

Gruffalux

Montage of Feck wrote: »

I don't get it, the people that have the decorations up since Halloween haven them down already and Christmas isn't even over yet.

Well I put them up on the 18th of December. maybe I'm just a Grinch

JupiterKid

My tree, wreath, lights and other Christmas decorations won’t be coming down until January 7th, as per usual.

I agree with the others on here that those who put up their decorations very early (like late November) are usually the ones who also take them down before New Years. Each to their own - but I like to stick with family tradition on this one.

No it's lovely having the lights
We did put them up late

Hamsterchops

Nightfever80 wrote: »

Taking down the Christmas decorations.

I'm taking down the Christmas decorations today.

Anyone else taking them down yet?

Traditionally people would take down their Christmas decorations on the 6th/7th January, although nowadays I guess anything goes, seeing as they go up early in December, or even November in some cases

I love the decorations and normally would love them all year round, but they are a nightmare with a curious mobile baby around. Also a nightmare are two cats determined to scale the tree as though it's their personal mount Everest, and two dogs who think the baubles are squeakys. Might take them down at the weekend.

On a brighter note, Early Happy New Year! Better times ahead for all of us, I hope.

cj maxx

logically wrote: »

America is very different to Ireland.

Yeah but why go to the trouble of putting them up , often involving ladders and stuff, only to take them down after a month? I'd leave outside lights up and take down the inside decorations

freshpopcorn

We begin taking them down on the 7th of January and do it over a few days.

Larbre34

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mine will come down tomorrow, and I'll give the house a good clean in preparation for new years eve and new year's day. Stayed of work this week.

Why would you even bother putting them up only to take them down before New Years?

The correct dates for the presence of decos is 1st December to 7th January. By the sound of some of the craziness in here, I'll have to make it a law.

Hamsterchops

Out and about this morning and I saw three cars with Christmas trees on the roof, presumably heading for the dump

...and it's still only December!

Mad_maxx

ours went up the 13th of December

they wont come down until january 7th , id happily take down January 2nd

r93kaey5p2izun

I haven't bothered putting them up for a few years now, but if I did then they wouldn't come down until at least the 6th. I don't understand putting them up really early and taking them down early, spending a month looking towards Christmas only to decide it's over a couple of days. It seems to be a fairly popular outlook though.