When do you take down Christmas decorations?

Ronni

Ronni

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I love Christmas, it's my favorite season of the year, and I really get into it, including a lot of decorating. I think there's a thread here somewhere of some of the decorations.

But man! When Christmas is over...I'm talking the day after Christmas, I can't WAIT to get all those decorations put away and get the house back to normal. There's something very wrong if I still have decorations up on New Year's day! I spent a good portion of the day yesterday taking down all the Christmas stuff, organizing and arranging my Christmas bins, getting the house put back to normal. It feels lovely to have my house back again, even though I absolutely loved being surrounded by all the Christmas things before Christmas!

What about you? When do your Christmas decorations come down?
 

Normally I start taking them down on the 26th - they start to look like an unmade bed to me. A chore that needs doing.

However, because of this year's short TG-Xmas schedule, one of our pizza - cookie parties slopped over past Christmas so the decorations are still up. That final party is today. Tomorrow we'll probably start restoring the house to normal.
 
I wait until after the 12th day of Christmas and usually take them down on the Epiphany January 6th.

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My decs go up every year and the tree gets lugged from the loft along with thevothers stuff. This year I didnt feel like having any but my Son said WHAT! MUM! YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!! He popped in and up he went and down they all came and up the decs all went and my GD dressed the lovely tree. Pleased they went up as usual and 12th night down they will all come and up they will all go back in the loft :rolleyes:
 
Usually I take them down on New Year's Day, although sometimes it may be a day or two later. I like to ease out of Christmas and still enjoy plugging in the tree first thing in the morning while waking up with a cup of coffee in hand. I notice the neighbors are dropping quickly, but there are a couple of us who keep them into the new year. Without fail, the neighbor across the street takes their outside lights down every Christmas Day. At first it is a little depressing to see, but I snap out of it when ours start twinkling at nightfall.
 
We've always left the tree up until the New Year. Like Red Cinders, we enjoying seeing the tree lights.

This year, we didn't put up the tree, and our daughter was disappointed .. she's 36 :p and we always went way out with decorating. She's married, but didn't have time to decorate their condo due to her regular job and Etsy business. Christmas was always a special time for her growing up.
 
When the kids were little I waited until about the end of the first week of January.
Now I don't put much out except my manger and candles in the window. We also have a very small tree that fits in a box fully decorated that is in our TV room.

I'll put these things away the day after New Years.

This year I took the time to go through everything. Some Christmas items were already donated to the Salvation Army before the holiday.

These past few years my daughter has taken over the holiday. She decorates to the hilt. I was sitting on the sofa enjoying all her hard work and was thinking to myself,"better you than me kid."
 
I no longer decorate but when I did, it came down when I had time to do it but it began to annoy me as soon as Christmas was over.
 
I’m taking down my tree right now. It’s a live tree and not a wise choice while trying to renovate a kitchen.
 

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