To ask why people still have Xmas decorations up ?

[gillys]

In the last 2 days I have seen a Christmas tree with decorations still on it in someone's living room, a window with decorations stuck to it & 3 houses with fairy lights switched on outside the house. What's going on, we're nearly half way through February ?!

I'm getting ready to celebrate Easter.

I saw one last night, a ground floor flat, a single man lives there and he's got Christmas stickers all over his window

In some countries in mainland Europe, there is now the “carnival” period till the start of the lent. People start celebrating Christmas on 24th Dec and then in Jan and Feb have “Christmas/ New Year” parties. Other way round than in the UK, when people celebrate more from well, November and then finish just after 25th December!

So maybe thise people are from the mainland Europe.

My neighbours keep them up till after Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year maybe?

That was on Tuesday

Are they just a bit late taking them down following Candlemass?

I think there are a few options:

1 They are very lazy
2 They didn't get a chance to celebrate christmas because of illness (we had xmas dinner/day on 19 jan as illness stopped play on xmas day)
3 They LOVE christmas

I reckon most people are no 1!!!

I took my Lunar New Year decorations down just a few minutes ago. (They'd been up for 1 week) But fairy lights and Christmas trees definitely aren't Lunar New Year!

I haven't seen any tbh. Last ones i saw were maybe 15th Jan. Not seen any since then.

A few years ago I took mine down the last week of February- I had spent the whole of Christmas and up until then, sat everyday by my dads bedside in intensive care. Wouldn’t allow dp to take them down as I knew how to do it lol in which order etc.

I took them down when my dad came around and they moved him to the ward. To be honest decorations was the least of my worries.

You don’t know what others have going on in their lives.

The man I know is definitely lazy

Two houses on my road still have Christmas trees up with lights on

In my childhood family the Christmas tree and decorariona get taken down early January but the light outside stay for the whole dark period as does the neighbours. So basically november-march.

There are a few houses round here that still have outside lights on trees. I reckon they just like them

At our previous house there was a local property that had a scraggy bit of tinsel over the fireplace all year round. They were either lazy, ill/elderly or getting ahead of the curve but I never found out which.

Oops fairy lights on dc room windows still up!! Try not to venture in there is my excuse and I am sticking to it.
*the fact window is on the main st actually just makes me reason number 1.

I've still got snowflake stickers on my front window. Because I keep forgetting they are there. I see them when I get home and think "I must take those down". But then life takes over and I forget. I can't see them from the inside because of the window dressings so I forget.

It's no big deal, they are snowflakes, it's winter. I'll remember at some point.

Our outside white 'winter lights' stay up until half term. They are a pain to put up so they stay on for 3 months.
Our coloured 'Christmas lights' were turned off at 12th night.

The houses on my road with Christmas tree / lights still up are indoor trees
I've a feeling one of the houses is rented to a few lads. Probably none of them could be ar*ed to take it down and are waiting for one of the others to take it down.