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To take the Xmas Dec's down

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coconutty101 · 26/12/2019 20:33

Anyone else sick of Xmas now...
AIBU to take the tree down and pack everything away?
Can't wait to get back to normal...!

Feel I should Keep it up longer as I have a 1 year old.. And he likes the lights, but I've had enough of Xmas this year, I've had enough of this year tbh, it's been pretty shit!

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Misscromwellrocks · 26/12/2019 20:58

Up to you but I preferred the tradi8of putting them up a few days before Christmas and taking them down on 12th night to the current fad for putting them up in late Nov and getting them down on boxing day. It smacks of ' the presents are done so Christmas is over' and seems a bit shallow.

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coconutty101 · 26/12/2019 20:59

@thesnuffster, Im the same, tree went up second weekend of December, every year I'm sick of it all by now.
Feel like Christmas is always a massive anti climax!
DP wants to keep them up til new year though, so I'll try to bare with it til then!

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mrsbyers · 26/12/2019 21:00

Mine never went up - couldn’t be arsed at all

CallmeAngelina · 26/12/2019 21:03

I think this because you put them up too early.

lightandairy56 · 26/12/2019 21:05

Mine have been up and getting in my way for two weeks. Took them all down today and they're all back in the loft. Going on holiday on Saturday and am superstitious so didn't want to leave them up past the twelfth night which would have happened if I didn't get them down today or tomorrow. It's lovely to have the house back to normal.

Ginfordinner · 26/12/2019 21:06

This is the reason we don't put our tree up early. It only went up last week, and will come down on new year's day.

Aderyn19 · 26/12/2019 21:06

Mine will come down on new year's day. For me the Ist Jan means that Christmas is well and truly over. I love my decs and lights, so have had them up since late November. It seems a bit sad to me to take them down on Boxing Day - that's still Christmas, but it's your house do do as you please.

PatchworkElmer · 26/12/2019 21:07

Ours are hopefully coming down tomorrow. It just hangs over me otherwise! I like starting the new year with a tidy home, not an extra job to do.

SauvignonBlanche · 26/12/2019 21:07

Each to their own but it’s only the second day of Christmas Xmas Confused
I’ve only had my tree up for 4 days, I’m not bored of it yet and it’ll be up until 12th Night.

I can imagine that if I was the type to out my tree up in October I’d be fed up of it by now though Xmas Hmm

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 26/12/2019 21:07

Oh do what you like OP

Seriously, can MN create a We HATE all things Christmas sub topic please ?

patchworkpatty · 26/12/2019 21:09

This all shows the commercialism of Christmas . Putting them up in November taking down on Boxing Day (or day after ) coincides exactly with 'maximum Christmas sales period'

Whole spirit of Christmas translated into 'love of stuff' rather than love of humanity. . Very very shallow.

Cryingoverspilttea · 26/12/2019 21:10

The twelve days of christmas isn't a religious thing @LoveNote it's just a bloody fact. Christmas is 12 days. It starts on the 25th. It is not one day. You're bloody mental.

MereDintofPandiculation · 26/12/2019 21:12

Ours went up !st Dec (or maybe 2nd) and they'll stay up until we've celebrated the family birthday that falls in the 2nd week of Jan. (If you have the disadvantage of a birthday relatively near to Christmas, you might as well have the advantage of the decorations too).

Cryingoverspilttea · 26/12/2019 21:13

Probably anticlimatic because you put it up so early and stop celebrating on the 25th Confused @coconutty101

Maybe try and push it back to a few days before christmas day and then celebrate through the new year like it's supposed to be done. Not by what the stuff on the shop shelves tells you to do.

Nonnymum · 26/12/2019 21:14

Do what you what but minenwont be down until 12th night. I only out but up the weekend before Christmas an stak wit down on the 5th or 6th Jan. For me that it is Christmas period not and Xmas isn't over until then. I definitely wouldn't take it down until after New Year's Day.

greenlavender · 26/12/2019 21:14

Do what you want, it's not an AIBU is it?

hiyahen · 26/12/2019 21:15

Take your tree/secs down if you want.

Get one of your (I'm sure) many boxes, poke holes in add fairy lights - instant sensory den for your baby to crawl in Xmas Smile

snowone · 26/12/2019 21:17

Ours will be coming down at the weekend. Went up on 8th and I'm sick of the sight of them now!!

jaseyraex · 26/12/2019 21:19

I took all of ours down first thing this morning and we've only had it up for a week. Had to get autistic 4 year old back in to a routine of normal though, he's been very overwhelmed with Christmas which has been no fun for anyone! Do as you please OP. There's no right or wrong.

StarlingsInSummer · 26/12/2019 21:20

I can imagine few things more depressing at Christmas than taking down the decorations on Boxing Day (obviously having no food, home, heat, family etc would be more depressing, before I get jumped on). But you do you.

TheoriginalLEM · 26/12/2019 21:23

I wondered how long it would take for one of these threads to appear. I will leave mine up til after new year, probably til the 6th not beyond.

I suffer with anxiety and actually don't relax into Christmas until everyone has gone home in the evening.

Boxing day is my favourite day.

Jonb6 · 26/12/2019 21:23

Mine didn't go up Smile

neveradullmoment99 · 26/12/2019 21:24

I love Christmas. Have had mine up since end of November ha ha....I love my tree. Its the earliest i have ever had it up but it makes me happy so why not? I wont take mine down until new years day. I like to make getting my tree out and putting it up worth it. The kids would be devastated if i took it down.

avacadooo · 26/12/2019 21:26

I'm taking mine down tomorrow while dh is at work and the baby is napping because I feel like my house is a bombsite and cluttered so easiest thing to do is eliminate the decorations then tidy the house without all the Christmas crap in the way.
And I basically put all our presents away yesterday minus the toys because I'm not that evil 😂

GreyHare · 26/12/2019 21:27

Mine came down this morning and packed away, and they had only been up 10 days, but I am now done with Christmas, I find New Year utterly depressing and just want normality back.

I have a Birthday in January and would have hated the tree staying up for that, Christmas is Christmas and Birthdays are Birthdays.

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