To want to take down Christmas decorations on 31stDec

Our tree goes up about a week before Christmas and it'll come down on Sunday 5th January this year. I might leave a few fairy lights up for a bit longer.

We do that too. The decorations have only been up for ten days, it’s hardly worth putting them up at all if they come down before the 6th.

I am taking mine down tomorrow as we are going away for a few days. Don't want to come back and do it on Monday when I have finished work.

Always the 6th. Earlier would feel very odd. They're so lovely I want them up as long as possible, quite apart from observing the same tradition as when I was a child.

Christmas is a December event for me. I don't like it in November or January.
Mine goes up the first weekend day in December, which this year happened to be 1st. It came down today and we had a big tidy up, clear out and organise of all our new Christmas presents. It doesn't need to be a sad event. We enjoyed getting ready for the year ahead and looking forward to the fresh start. All our decorations are special and hold memories and many of them are family heirlooms so we lovingly pack them away and thank them for the joy they've given us for yet another year. It's not just a case of ripping it down and hauling it into the loft.
Besides, my church keeps their tree up until Candlemas on 2nd February so I can still enjoy a little festivity for a little while longer if I really want to.

Mine are coming down tomorrow. The tree only will stay up for the darts final on Friday and then that's coming down on Saturday.

Our tree went up quite late and it was all taken down today at 5pm when our visitors left early.
So thats the end of Xmas,

Normally 5th or 6th for me, but we don’t put them up till about a week before Christmas. We are getting ours down on Saturday this year as we have decorators starting on the 6th.

Ours stay up. It's always nice to have everything festive for NYE. I'll undress the trees / put all the candles and ornaments away from tomorrow onwards but the lights stay on the trees until DP isn't working as that's his job (as is disposing of the tree) We are usually all un-christmassd by the time the kids go back to school though - properly cleaned and decluttered.

Ours stay up to the 6th and don't go up till a week before Christmas.

I am going to take mine down tomorrow I think. Need to do some cleaning so makes sense.

We love Christmas (and decorations don’t go up until mid December) but it’s over now. Time to celebrate tonight and then look forward to the New Year.

It is just back to normal though after tonight. I like to start the new year all fresh and clean. I don't want the faff of taking the decs down hanging over me. My decs go up weekend closest to the 1st. Never in October

I don't get it. If those who love Christmas so much, the decorations go up Oct/Nov, surely they would want it to last. Yet I see on SM them coming down ASAP after the actual day, in some cases Boxing Day. We then get the inevitable 'number' of weekends on SM until the next one...
We put our up the weekend before Christmas and take down around the 4/5th of January.. January is bleak and dark enough. Surely we could do with it being the other way.

Mine came down yesterday and the living room has had a good clean today. I fully expect to get "twelfth night" flung at me but as far as I go Christmas and all that goes with it is for December, not January.

Down on 28th here. We have a birthday on 29th and preference is for it not to be Christmassy then. All fresh and spacious for bringing in the new year.

Down on Saturday or Sunday. January is bleak enough and I like the tree lights

People have Christmas all the wrong way round. Christmas starts on Christmas Day and lasts 12 days. People starting Christmas at end November and taking down on flipping Boxing Day! No wonder as they're fed up. And it's all driven and manipulated by commercialism. I would put ours up Christmas Eve as we did when I was young but my children wouldn't have it. We compromise on a week before Christmas and they come down on 6th. But you do you.

We take ours down on Jan 2nd to make space for our daughter's birthday cards on the 4th.

Ours only went up on 15th December and will come down this weekend (or possibly Thursday if we can be bothered). Like keeping the twinkly lights up as long as possible, the awful weather means we're not seeing the days lengthen yet and I hate the dark and cold with no lights to make things brighter.

Off to light some candles!

we do too, I love my lights everywhere

Mine are down. Tree round the back to get picked up and decs back in the loft.

Ours will all be put away on the 5th Jan. I love having my tree up and all the fairy lights in the front garden and will miss them. I have fairy lights indoors all year round but it still feels a bit bleak when the tree has gone.
But, I do enjoy the space when it has gone

Many of us don’t acknowledge the 12 days of Christmas so 5/6th January has no relevance

We've taken ours down today.

Had them up since the beginning of December.

I would have liked to keep them up for longer but I always end up feeling like it's a job hanging over me. We've got an enormous tree, it makes a lot of mess and I like to get the house nice and clean for New Year's Day.

Got fairy lights and lots of candles to try and keep it cosy.