to take the decorations down tomorrow?

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I haven't consulted dh and dc yet, I don't think they'll approve but I've had enough of them now! I've had a lovely Christmas but I need to get some order back which won't happen until the decorations come down.
I should leave them really but they are making me panicky!!

My decs will stay up til 12th night. I still have not seen my family for Christmas, won't until 30th, when we will have more celebrations. I worked really hard in the build up - why then wish it all away! I love these days, the lights twinkling, playing with new stuff, eating the Christmas food. I know the hardest days of winter are to come, Jan and Feb are so gloomy. However, that is just me, I don't care what anyone else does, I will stay in my cosy Christmas bubble a little longer!

I am always queen in my house, I don't need the bean . Still loving my tree, and agree that the whole early part of December is just nutso with all the hype and school stuff, for those who still have kids at home. It's the after Xmas day bit that's fun for me, when I am off work (I am lucky to get a proper break).
It's brilliant to be able to get up late, go for walks in the currently lovely crisp winter weather, and come home to the tree and a cupboard full of goodies.
If I took the Decs down I might feel bad about the fact that I just had a mince pie for breakfast. .

Our decorations always come down when the DCs have gone to bed on Christmas Day. DS1's birthday is on Boxing Day so the tree comes down and the balloons go up so that he doesn't feel as though his birthday gets 'lost' among the Christmas celebrations.

proof once more that mumsnet is some strange parallel universe! I know of no one in real life who takes down the decs before new year. If you visited someone on boxing day and their decorations were gone, you'd assume there had been some crisis

We are not all one person.

We all do things differently .

One of mine has a birthday soon after Xmas. Christmas was always put away,so her birthday was special and had nothing to do with Xmas.

I put mine up on the 22nd with dsd helping me who arrived that day to stay for Christmas.

She leaves on the 29th and I will have them down that day if I can be arsed otherwise they will be down on jan 1st.

I took all the cards down yesterday amid moans from DH. There was no tinsel this year, but a new artificial tree which needed more decs. Am taking decs down bit by bit (hope it won't b noticed)!

Those lamenting the loss of twinkly lights. Leave them up all year round. Drape the sparkly beggars over your mantelpiece and you're laughing.

Ours went up on the 23rd. I want the space back already .

This thread has been unintentionally hilarious.

My epiphany celebrations are pretty much as described.

We have a nativity set. On Christmas Day, the baby Jesus appears in the manger. From then on, every morning we move the three wise men closer and closer to the stable, and on the epiphany, they reach the stable and stand around the manger.

There is a cake. Traditionally, it is a sort of puff pastry cake with an almond filling, but I'm allergic to nuts so I make a small apple crumble cake instead. There is a bean hidden inside the cake (you can get little plastic charms to put in, but not in the UK so I do it the old fashioned way). The cake is decorated with a crown. We cut the cake into one slice per person, with an extra slice set aside to feed any poor stranger who might arrive (you have to make sure that slice doesn't have the bean in). The youngest person gives out the cake slices, and you eat it quite carefully so as not to lose a tooth. Whoever gets the bean is king or queen and gets to wear the crown and give silly orders. We usually do a parade through the house following the king/queen and playing songs on kazoos. It's fun and quite silly and can be done easily after school.

That's when Christmas is over in our house.

I take mine down on New Year's Day but could be tempted to take them down sooner as tree is looking sorry for itself and DS has been removing and throwing decorations since early December. Like to start new year with them down.

Another one here who's really confused as to why you'd take the xmas decorations down in the middle of the xmas holidays

Well, I live in the US and the schools call it the Winter Holiday not the Christmas Holiday.

So if it's OK with you we'll take our decs down today :-)

The christian festival Christmas is celebrated from the evening of 24th December until twelfth night/epiphany - as that is my tradition, my decorations don't come down until then.

The secular celebration of Christmas starts shortly after bonfire night and is over on boxing day. It's easter soon after all.

Whatever your tradition, by all means feel free to take your decorations down whenever you want to - it's your house after all! But if you would prefer to have them up for longer consider using a smaller tree or a different location for the tree next year so that it's not in the way.

I would love a smaller tree fish but dh insists on a 7ft beast in prime position in front of the living room window! Seems a 50/50 spilt although never knew people were so passionate about their christmas decorations!

I wouldn't normally take mine down until the New year but both sets of fairy lights have gone on the tree so it's just annoying me now! will leave up the lights in the window and ornaments for another while!

dust just seen your post and if you had read the op it starts by saying I hadn't spoken to dh or dc. The reason for asking aibu was to see of it would be an unreasonable thing to even suggest to them but the thread moved on from that. When it seemed that it was 50:50 I spoke to dh.

Mine will be up until Twelth Night, and I will be sad to take them down.

But then I put up a few decorations which I actually like looking at rather than trying to cover every possible surface.

Ours are all down. Dh has been to the tip and everything

Love a clean house!

I couldn't give a toss when everyone else puts up their decorations or when they take them down. I took ours down today. It feels bare and looks it but pretty soon I won't notice it so much.

I've just taken our decorations down. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas but in the last few years I've started taking down the decorations before NYE and I feel mentally better prepared for January of a new year. Letting the decorations hang around until after NYE just makes the come down after Christmas harder for me and I used to roll into January depressed that it's not Christmas anymore. I also hate cleaning as a rule but a big post Christmas "spring clean" is so very satisfying.

Mind you, if my mum and dad had taken down the decorations before the twelfth night when I was a kid, I would have been devastated!

Years ago me dh dd mil and fil had Christmas at dbil and dsils house.
The day after boxing day we were all in the driveway saying our goodbyes when bil opened the front room window and the christmas tree came flying out

I will undecodate bit by bit

The only room still decorated by the 2nd will be the living room, so will undecodate that room by the 4th at the latest...otherwise it's just me packing everything up and that's not happening

Bet Mary would have told Joseph to take the tree down sharpish before any other guests turned up

(I know she didn't have a Christmas tree...the donkey would have eaten it!)