Anyone taking their decs down?

[Frenchdressing]

I put them up late and will take them down on Jan1st but there’s a trend of taking them down for Boxing Day now. Does anyone last until 12th night?

Eh? It would be weird to take your tree down before New Years Eve, unless you were going away. I'm still in full on Christmas mode

Having said that, now this wind is getting up, my outside tree has taken itself down twice in the last hour!

Ours always stay up until the 6th.

Although we don't have that many. A wreath on the front door, a small tree (which we'll burn), some candles, a wreath on the table (will also be burned). Stockings. That's it.

I've never taken them down on boxing day but often before 1st Jan, like to declutter for new year, I find all the clutter gets on top of me.

However this year I've had them up longer to try to distract from all that's happening, and conversely I'm thinking of leaving them up until at least 12th night so I'll have something to look forward to (taking them down ) in January.

MeringueCloud

Exactly. The 6th. Not the first....

I only finished putting them up on 23rd Dec so they'll be up until 12th night!

I must admit, I am tempted to take them down today. But I think I will hold off until 1st Jan as is the tradition in our house!

I don't have a set date, just when I've had enough of them Quite enjoying them today (having a very lazy Boxing Day watching the football and grazing ) so definitely not yet.

We put the tree up after school breaks up. And take it down when Christmas is actually over on 6th January. I find it really strange to have Christmas decorations up when advent has barely started and then get rid of them on Boxing Day but it's up to other people what they do. Does anyone else mark 12th night with cake and 3 kings related things?

Mine went up a couple of weeks ago, I'll take them down new years eve/day

I’m very traditional. Christmas has just begun, we’ve literally just got out of Advent.It continues until Epiphany, when I will take my tree down. Or Candlemas if you are an even more traditional Christian than me.

I'm loving seeing all the external lights in people's houses (more this year than ever before) and am rather dreading the bleakness once they've gone, especially this year.
My tree, though, is irritating me in the needle drop this time. Not usually a problem but I cocked up the ritual of sawing off the bottom of the trunk.

@Isolatedizzy

I'm in Tier 4 and think I might leave them up until the end of February! 😂 All the Christmas lights are keeping my spirits up at the moment I can't bear to think about how miserable it will be when they come down! 😩

I keep my fairy lights up inside the house until Imbolc, 2nd February. Then we start spring with a cheese feast. 😁

Not until Twelfth Night!!

Nope we celebrate all glorious 12 days of Christmas here. It seems wrong to give up 11 days of sitting on the sofa by the light of the Christmas tree eating a fuck ton of chocolate. Tis the season!

@amusedtodeath1

Nope we celebrate all glorious 12 days of Christmas here. It seems wrong to give up 11 days of sitting on the sofa by the light of the Christmas tree eating a fuck ton of chocolate. Tis the season!

Much as I would love to do the sitting and eating bit I'm back to work tomorrow so not that glorious here...

Much as I would love to do the sitting and eating bit I'm back to work tomorrow so not that glorious here...

Some of us worked all of Christmas. It doesn’t mean that we can’t sit, eat and enjoy the tree when we have a few hours off here and there.

No we only finished putting them up on Monday.

We will wait till the 4th/5th January

@ProudAuntie76

Much as I would love to do the sitting and eating bit I'm back to work tomorrow so not that glorious here...

Some of us worked all of Christmas. It doesn’t mean that we can’t sit, eat and enjoy the tree when we have a few hours off here and there.

I worked up until Christmas Eve. I will sit, eat and enjoy my uncluttered living room when I get back from work tomorrow.

Ours are all down now :)

I didn't get them up!

I think a lot of it comes down to the type of house/decor - in big sprawling period houses, families tend to leave decorations up for the full run. In smaller, modern houses and flats it can be harder to find space so people want them down sooner perhaps?

I’m considering leaving the outside lights up - or at least some of them. It’s a miserable time of year at the best of times, so I may take the sparkly stars down from the fence and put them around the front door until Spring.

We’ll take the tree down the weekend before school returns (primary school so fingers crossed this will still happen on schedule).

I feel like we need all the sparkles we can get at the moment so definitely in no rush.

Our went up on Christmas Eve and will come down on New Years’s Day .

*year’s