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To want to take down Christmas decorations on 31stDec

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ThatCyanJoker · 31/12/2024 08:26

We’ve had tree and Christmas decorations up since early December. I’m so ready to take them down now and get the house back to normal, but DH says it’s way too early and how could I think that was usual. Out of interest, do you keep your tree etc until 6 January?

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TabloidFootprints · 31/12/2024 10:48

I love the 12 days of Christmas and I hate that Christmas starts so early that people are tired of it by Epiphany. Mine go up on around 16 Dec and down on Jan 5 or 6, can never remember which and have to check every year. This was perfectly normal when I was little but increasingly I feel like an adherent of some strange cult.

Thegiantofillinois · 31/12/2024 10:45

Mine go down nyd. They usually go up around the 15th and I do about 2 weeks of them. I used to do the 6th, but there's something quite bleak about Xmas decs in Jan. Must be the light.

I don't get the down on boxing day thing though, although maybe that's people who put them up really early.

I'm looking forward to the kids being older so I don't have to decorate at all. The more I look at them, the more ridiculous they seem. Maybe I just just bring in a yule log and holly.

PaterPower · 31/12/2024 10:45

Mine were packed away on the 27th. I’ve got a busy January ahead so just wanted them down and out of the way.

FedUpandDownAgain · 31/12/2024 10:40

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 31/12/2024 08:31

Mine will come down on 2nd January, after our NY guests have left. If people are sick of them already, why do they put them up so early? Mine go up on about the 15th.

Because the build up during the time before is the fun bit. Once Christmas is finished, its time to move on (and Christmas is finished when we decide - between Christmas Day and new Year - not when tradition dictates).

piscofrisco · 31/12/2024 10:34

Mine will come down tomorrow and Friday. I'm actually fed up of them now but it feels wrong not to have them up for New Year's Eve. It's a two day job anyway as there are alot!

Nothatgingerpirate · 31/12/2024 10:32

They are already gone.

stackhead · 31/12/2024 10:31

Christmas has been a loooooong time coming through December I feel like DC have had something every bloody day since late November.

The decs are going down today so I can start new year with a clean, organized house and hope it continues throughout!

Those that keep their decorations up longer either probably have bigger houses than me and therefore don't have to move shit around to fit in the tree.

viques · 31/12/2024 10:31

viques · 31/12/2024 10:29

Ditto. Not surprised the OP is fed up of them since they were put up so early. I will stop putting on the porch Christmas lights (last night tonight) and take stuff down at the weekend.

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On a happier note I discovered a tin of honey roasted cashews and a box of celebrations yesterday, I am either losing my marbles or getting better at hiding stuff. 🙂

viques · 31/12/2024 10:29

TeenToTwenties · 31/12/2024 08:28

4 weeks is more than enough.
Which is why ours have only been up 10 days so far.

Ditto. Not surprised the OP is fed up of them since they were put up so early. I will stop putting on the porch Christmas lights (last night tonight) and take stuff down at the weekend.

SongSungBlues · 31/12/2024 10:24

After 1st January I start taking things down and putting them away gradually, leaving the tree to last. That will be down by the weekend.

Then we start Wassail season!

Minimum50 · 31/12/2024 10:24

I've never taken my tree down as late as 6th January. I think once I still had it up on NYD - usually I like it down no later than NYE and it has been down on boxing day on a few occasions.

I get sick of Christmas decorations if they are up too long - I like them up the last two weeks in December only.

Behindthethymes · 31/12/2024 10:22

I just don’t feel New Year energy so it makes no sense to me to take down Christmas things yet. We have a few more lazy, semi-hibernation days to go yet.

Marchweshall · 31/12/2024 10:21

We took ours down Boxing Day. It’s always nice to get the house back to normal.

Cheshire71 · 31/12/2024 10:20

Ours came down on Sunday. Nice to have the house back to normal.

peachystormy · 31/12/2024 10:18

Am taking mine down as soon as I have unpacked our holiday cases

FelixtheAardvark · 31/12/2024 10:17

Everything comes down on 1st Jan here.

DomPom47 · 31/12/2024 10:16

We put them up last weekend of November and took them all down yesterday and had a tidy up of Christmas related things. I say go for it and put them away.

Xanadu58 · 31/12/2024 10:10

I took ours down yesterday .

YourGladSquid · 31/12/2024 10:07

I would never take them down before the 6th but to be honest we keep it the whole of January. We like the lights.

LaineyCee · 31/12/2024 10:05

Tree always stays till Twelfth Night in my house. If feel you need decorations down to get back to normal, maybe the problem is the volume of decorations in the first place.

LinnettdeBelleforte · 31/12/2024 09:57

I only put mine up on the 22nd, and I never take them down until Epiphany. I think that your husband is correct. Next time, I would put the tree up later rather than take it down earlier. I always feel the need to drag a little of the festivity into the bleak first days of January.

OTannenbaumOTannenbaum · 31/12/2024 09:55

Mine are going down today. I like it away for the start of the New Year for some reason.

DelicateSoundOfEchos · 31/12/2024 09:54

Yes my tree stays up until the epiphany, but I don't put it up super early. I like enjoying the festive season. I've seen people putting their Christmas decorations up the second Halloween is over and then pulling them down on boxing day, which to me is madness.

But it's your house so you do what you want.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 31/12/2024 09:54

OP - you can exactly what you want.
We usually put ours up on Christmas Eve but were a few days early this year (22nd). Will take down on 12th night as always.

fuckingidiotseverywhere · 31/12/2024 09:54

Ours came down yesterday, glad to see the back of them tbh! I haven't felt Christmas at all this year with illness and other issues going on. Really glad to have my living space back to normal!