To take down my christmas decorations?

[moopymoodle]

I've left the tree up, but removed thr window lights, ornaments etc. A few friends are calling me a humbug, I love christmas but started to feel a bit boxed in! DH agreed it feels more relaxing now :)

Anybody else done the same?

Mine will be down before New Year, probably a job for this afternoon if I can be bothered after 3 loads of washing.

YABU. It's still Christmastide until 5th January, which is the last of the 12 Days of Christmas.

According to Wikipedia, "In 567 the Council of Tours proclaimed that the entire period between Christmas and Epiphany should be considered part of the celebration." So you've had a while to get used to it!

Well for me christmas starts December 1st and ends 27th. I might leave the decorations till the 10th December then I reckon I can survive till new year :)

My nana puts hers up mid October and takes them down January! She lovessssssss christmas bless her

For the first time I am itching to take the decorations down, and I don't know why, perhaps it is the warm weather.
I am a great traditionalist, always keep them up until Epiphany.

Christmas decorations go up for the 12 days of Christmas in my house.

I do find it a bit um, odd?, when people put theirs up months early and then take them down during Christmas. Seems a bit like booking a two week beach holiday in the summer, then going to the beach everyday for weeks before the holiday (to 'enjoy the lead up'), then getting sick of the beach on day 2 of the holiday and coming home telling everyone they're 'so bored of the beach already'. Just feels like they ruined their own enjoyment of it, if you see what I mean.

I also think that making Christmas 'just one day' creates additional pressure - I couldn't see all my family easily on one day, but over a 12 day period its much more doable!

But fundamentally, everyone gets to do what they like. If you want to celebrate Christmas in June, or everyday, or not at all, its up to you, and I'd never tell anyone they were doing it wrong.

I want to take mine down so badly. I'm removing the occasional item,(taking them down by stealth), so as not to upset anyone else in the house.
Its the cards that get me.
I hate cards.

"I also think that making Christmas 'just one day' creates additional pressure - I couldn't see all my family easily on one day, but over a 12 day period its much more doable!". whatever22

^^this

Everyone tries to shoehorn everything in, in the lead up to Christmas. Spread it out folks, slow down. Enjoy the twinkles during the darkest days.

We only put ours up on 20th so mine will be up for a bit longer. Will probably take them down on 3rd as I hate going back to work with them still up!

I think M48 was responding to me.....

Of course you're free to say what you.like but it's a bit presumptuous to assume that people have no idea of the Christmas traditions just because they don't follow the 'rules'...