Taking the tree down!

[Elsouth]

Is it wrong to consider taking the tree down tomorrow? When is everyone else doing it?? I think last year I did it just after Boxing Day. As the kids get older the presents seem to get bigger and I end up having to rearrange the whole room. Need that tree gone. Does that make me a grinch?

Yes! So much space here but it feels very drab without the lovely decorations up. We had to rearrange furniture to get the tree in and the way it's ended up has given us a lot more space which is lovely but I do miss the twinkly lights and especially the lovely things we had in the window. We're well into our second week of horrible illness here and having the decorations up made it all a bit more bearable

Took ours down today, always makes me feel a bit sad. And living room seems awfully empty!

Mine have come down today, the living room looks so bare and huge! I have left the lights on outside though, and a candle arch in the kitchen window, they'll only take 5 minutes to take down, I'll probably take them down tomorrow, other than that all signs of Christmas have gone!

Teddy, I've left up some a whole bunch of candles, too. They look so nice, even without the decorations and they're not 'Christmassy' (plain ivory) that I'm almost tempted to just leave them. Plus that means I'll 'have' to get new different ones for next Xmas.

DH and DS2 will take down the lights when DH gets back from camping.

My cats are quite upset that it's all gone. The younger one had a bit of a temper tantrum

Well I too have de-Christmased the house today.

Every year I seem to buy more decorations so packing up the drawing room, snug, kitchen and dining room seemed to take forever - 2 trees, window lights, wreaths, garlands over fireplaces and millions of candles everywhere.

I think I've definitely peaked on decorations now and MUST tell myself no more next year - if for no other reason I don't want to do 7 trips to the loft storing it all away next year.

The house seems really empty now - I think it always seems to take a while to adjust.

AcrossthePond55 I know what you mean, by leaving a few candles here and there you're not quite ready to say goodbye to Christmas yet, almost like a nod to the 12th night! It's all so final otherwise.

i completely de-christmassed yesterday. we were so ready! today we went house plant shopping

Ours will come down tomorrow. It always depresses me a bit, it means I have to clean the house and there's nothing but damp, dark, dreary January to deal with (and February and March!). I will be buying flowers tomorrow.

After both of us being ill most of November and December I told my husband not to bother going to the effort of putting it up. Lots of decorations but nothing that needs careful putting away - best decision we made

Tree went down yesterday. The rest will come down today - I hate the bare look and am thinking of re-arranging the furniture to make it look less sad. I like it all done before school term starts.

I may get some more greenery and candles too.

I posted earlier say maybe just before or after new year depending on if I fancied it being up for new year.

As it turned out I wanted everything up at new year then couldn't be arsed to take it down on the first so everything came down yesterday.

What I don't understand is how removing massive objects (tree) and sparkly shit (ceiling Dec/tinsel) Christmas ornaments etc can leave the house looking like it needs a tidy rather than the opposite like I was expecting

Lovely clean house and a sunny day too.

Already looking forward to Imbolc decorations.

What do you put up for imbolc?

Lots of candles, tablecloths, straw crosses, bring in snowdrops, pussy willows if they are out. We are having family over for an Imbolc meal.

Tree down today, much better

12th night for me, Traditionalist that I am.

Mines down. I only have a small tree nowadays, so it doesn't make much difference. Bought a new lamp to put in that corner so I don't miss the extra light.

My tree is still up :)

Mine's still up. More needles on the floor than on the tree now. Have banned kids from breathing near it!

Mine is still up. Coming down Saturday - don't have the time or energy before then.

Didn't the three wise men visit Jesus on 12th night and that's why it's 12 days of Christmas?

Mine is still up, just not had the time or energy to take it down and put it away😂 Will probably take it down on Friday though.

Ours would normally be still up but our tree this year, while lovely when bought, was a rogue bad 'un so it came down yesterday before all we were left with was a stick with balls on it. It feels like the room is the size of a football pitch and oddly, I feel more motivated to get up and at 'em than I have in previous years, despite the gloom of January.