Christmas decorations is this strange?

[recklessruby]

First of all this has no effect on my life at all but aibu to think you don't keep Christmas decorations up for ages?
My next door but one neighbour has her tree up fully decorated in her front window and flashing lights outside plus a holly wreath on her door and glo in the dark candy canes with a sign saying santa stop here!
Each day she goes in and out cheerfully past it all.
I m superstitious and always think you should bring everything down and put away by twelfth night.
I m now wondering if they will still be up in July .....

[DaphneDiligaf]

Maybe she's going for Candlemas?

[KC225]

In Sweden, decoration go up at Advent and come down on 13th January. We only took out down yesterday as we have been out.

[RaptorInaPorkPieHat]

Is she the Queen? She leaves hers up til february

[recklessruby]

Lol you can't really say the Queen s had bad luck from it.
I m just wondering how long they ll be there

[ApolloandDaphne]

Has she maybe got family coming for a late Christmas or someone in the forces who wasn't home at Christmas and wants to keep them up for them?

[SerenDippitty]

There's a house near me that still has multi coloured flashing lights up in the window. No tree though.

[mogtheexcellent]

Neighbours have taken down their tree but left some lights up. Blue lights though.

[singleascheeseslice]

I'd keep mine up all year if I could! I love how warm and homely it makes the house. Only took them down last week because I had a surveyor coming. Need to get some everyday light decorations, every year I say I will but then once I've got over the January blues I forget

[PinkGin24]

We only took inside xmas decs down last week. The outside front lights will probably stay up until the end of March. Outside back lights will just be re-arranged as we use them as evening lights in the summer.

[FaFoutis]

There's a flat near me that has them up all year every year. Flashing lights & a father Christmas face in the window & a tree. I don't think there's anyone dead in there because it has been like that for years.

[Fluffyunicorns]

I thought if you did not take them down by 12th night it was then unlucky to take them down at all! Maybe she missed the deadline

[tillytrotter1]

Blue lights

A crime in themselves.
Is your neighbour not starting early for next November/December?

[MsChookandtheelvesofFahFah]

I've only just taken mine down, love all the twinkly lights! Nothing bad has ever happened to me. What is suposed to be the consequence of leaving them up?

[SavoyCabbage]

I did this once purely to annoy my next door neighbour who put hers up in the middle of November and asked me why I didn’t have mine up on December 1st. Didn’t I celebrate Christmas? Then she was all over Facebook saying how sick of her decorations she was and took them down on Boxing Day morning.

[WildFlower2019]

My bus went past a house with both Halloween and Christmas decorations up last week 😱

[mcmooberry]

Don't mind the flashing lights so much but Santa Stop Here is a bit ludicrous past 25th December.

[Ihatemyseleffordoingthis]

there's a house along the road from me I'm where I am sure they just accumulate more and more....xmas cards on strings in July etc
some people are lazy
some people are too busy
some people just want to hold out against the January drear I guess
I've left our (v tasteful) white lights up on our veranda for a few weeks more and I would have kept the wreath on the door longer as it still looked and smelled wonderful - but too superstitious

[LuckyLou7]

I have twinkly lights in my window all year round. They're not just for Christmas. I don't have a Santa stop here sign though, that's back in the attic.

[HerRoyalNotness]

A house on the main road still has their lights outside. They’ll be getting a letter from the neighbourhood association soon. “It is now time to remove your lights and prepare for the next holiday”

[Angelicwings]

The 12th night superstition came from Victorian times, and was to do with tree spirits coming out of the Christmas tree (specifically) after the 12th night, not whether you left an odd bit of tinsel on the kitchen window

[DonCorleoneTheThird]

I don't see the point after boxing day, once Christmas is over it's time to move on to something else! I would like to keep some of my outdoor lights until March though, they are not Christmassey as such, it's just nice to brighten the house a bit when you come home in the dark.

[Purplecatshopaholic]

Some people just like Xmas decs? Keep them all year round if you want - saves putting them away, lol. I have twinkly flashing lights in my hall and music room - nothing to do with Xmas, but some people could think they were I guess. Obvs the Santa stop here sign is a bit silly in July....

[MereDintofPandiculation]

I don't think leaving your decorations up is any more bizarre than feeling that if you don't take them down before 12th night something bad is going to happen to you.

[13thWarriorWitch]

I don't leave Christmas up but I do have fairy lights up all year. I find them pretty and cheerful.
My neighbours across the road have removed Santa but left the lights in the window.
Why not? I say. 🎄

[Printerneedsink]

But DonCorleone Christmas isn't over the day after Boxing Day. It continues until at least 6th January. I would argue that Christmas doesn't actually start until Christmas Eve.