Time to take down the Christmas decorations :-/

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I am sat here in full procrastination mode. I love it when the house is in full festive flow but alas the time has come to put them in the attic for another year!

Anyone else facing the dreaded 'empty house' feeling?

No. I love how big and clean everything looks!

I’ve just taken mine down and now the house looks like we’ve had an indoor glitter storm

I started taking them down a few days ago, I hate it.
I love christmas, there's quite a lot to put away.
Last night I reluctantly took the tree down. Most people probably think I'm pathetic but I laid all the decorations out on the table before wrapping/boxing them up. I use the same card patterned paperchains each year so they were the first to come down. I tape them together with a slight gap so I can cut the tape and stack them back into a box. In the living room there's still a few window decorations, card hangers and shelf decorations to go away. I'll get the tins and christmas themed things from the kitchen then do a sweep of the house for christmas teddies and bits the 4dc have distributed. It does make me a bit sad.

But, for now it'll wait as we're going to the pantomime!

Mine have just come down. The house suddenly looks a lot bigger!

I just hate the effort. I think we’re doing ours at the weekend.

DH can’t wait. He hates the mess of Christmas 😂 he had all the presents tidied away by Boxing Day 😂

Did ours yesterday before back to work today. Hadn’t realised how much they were annoying me until they were gone!

Took them down yesterday ... I don’t like to drag them into the new year really
New year new start

Is it just me who waits until after epiphany?
They only went up on the 21st.

@SuperLoudPoppingAction I would live to, and I do let up my nativity and add the kings on Sunday, but the thought of returning to work/school on Monday with the house still fully decorated is a bit depressing!

I always feel the house looks so bare

I'm the opposite in that I took all mine down expecting be house to look bigger hit hadn't figured in the stuff we'd moved around to accommodate the tree etc.now moved it all back and I feel it looks a bit rubbish 🤷🏽‍♀️

No, SuperLoud, not just you

Mine comes down on the 6th January .

6th for me too. Can't wait to get it back to normal but can't bring myself to do it before Twelfth Night. It's just wrong.

I hate mine being down too. Hate the effort but am mainly putting it off as hate how bare & boring myhouse will feel

Apparently you can leave them up until Candlemas (2nd February this year). We take ours down on the 6th January but put them up later than most people seem to these days.

Ugh, I'm supposed to be doing it today, but the boxes are 3 stories up and.....Ugh....inertia!

I wouldn't mind but I love when it's all gone.

Ours came down on Boxing Day evening as they do every year.
We aren’t religious and treat Christmas as a big party season but go away generally on Boxing Day or the day after on holiday, returning the day before we go back to work and school.
I don’t want to come home to a shitload of washing aswell as the Christmas tat to put away. Besides, our tree collections are all starting very soon I believe so ours has been outside chopped in half for some time already!
I love taking the Christmas stuff down and getting my house back to normal, it feels so nice, clean and airy. Our tree was a 9ft (and almost as wide) monster - happy to see the back of it all and looking forward to returning home back to normality.

I've taken down and cut up the cards for next years gift tags. Gradually washing clothes and tablecloth etc. to be packed away. Trees (one in living room and one in DDs bedroom) will stay up till Sunday afternoon though. We don't put our decs up super early, usually around the 18th dec, so not fed up of them yet.

Always used to do 6th January, but there is no rational reason for it. For me it was a case of last day off work, got a busy weekend with friends and wanted the tree out of the way. Far more logical than an arbitrary date based on a book I don’t follow. And I always feel that Christmas trees are a bit of a mixed message from the religious angle, with origins in Winter solstice celebrations, yet Christians believing that they have to stay in situ until 6th Jan.

Isn't Twelfth Night the 5th?

I'm doing ours on Saturday as we're busy Sunday. I'm not a massive fan of Christmas but I do like the decs. We put ours up mid December & I like the lights. They make the dark nights more bearable.

I always feel the house looks really bare when we take them down. And then I want to spend money on decorating...

Isn't Twelfth Night the 5th?

Yes. So 6th is the first opportunity after the whole of the 12th night has been and gone.

Twelfth Night starts at sunset on the 5th, Twelfth Day (Epiphany) is on the 6th. Night preceded day when these traditions came into being, or the other way to understand it is that before clocks became commonplace and it was decided that a new ‘day’ started at midnight, the day would end, and a new one begin at sunset.

Hence Halloween is on the 31st and All Hallow's Day is on the 1st Nov, Christmas Eve is on the 24th, Christmas Day on the 25th.

Mine are down - just sorting the aftermath before a deep clean, loving the clean spacious feel of my living room xxx

I’ve just realised, we took the decorations down yesterday, but didn’t have the feeling of everywhere being clean and the living room feeling big like I normally get. I’m wondering what’s up with me as I always normally feel like that when everything goes away.