To feel depressed after taking down the Christmas decs

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Place looks so bare and empty. Can’t help thinking back to the warm fuzzy feeling of putting them up.

I'm doing mine at the mo. My lounge looks rather minimalist now and I'm missing them already. Still, I'm just bunging everything in the loft and will add spend a day in there later this week sorting them out into their respective trunks.

I'm so glad I recently bought a new Shark vacuum cleaner as it's pretty amazing and picking up all the glitter and flock.

Like Roussette I am a summer person, and I hate this time of year. The afternoons are already becoming very slightly longer. Unlike everyone on here I find that the time drags between Christmas and new year. We don't live near family, DD has exams to revise for, and the weather is too awful to do anything outside. Roll on spring and summer.

I hate taking them down, makes the place feel so bland and empty. Finally gave in and put everything away tonight. Also signals the start of going back to work which I am dreading.
Like others, I am planning on keeping some non-Christmassy fairy lights up as I love them. Just need to get the husband to agree...

Cherry I bought a string of plug in star lights (from Argos) which have a nice warm glow, which I have draped across the living room mirror. Also got some twig fairy lights in a vase from John Lewis. In the kitchen I have a large bell jar filled with normal white fairy lights. Still need something for upstairs though.

I don't like taking the decorations down either because I miss the sparkle and jollity although we don't have any lights in our kitchen that work so we've had fairy lights up for 2 years and nobody has noticed so they can stay up as far as I'm concerned

I'm just about to make a start on taking mine down, but I don't really want to. I'm contemplating leaving the fairy lights in the kitchen up. They are pink so not very Christmassy and I love them.

The tree is staying until tomorrow, definitely. It's such a lovely tree and has hardly dropped any needles. Normally I can't wait to get rid of it, but not this year

It does feel bare and a bit soulless however I think that I do have very bare walls in any case. I need to get more pics up and more general decoration up to cheer the house up altogether. And some flowers

Love taking them down and doing a good spring clean at the same time!

I've taken mine down and the 3 wall up/down lighters seems even brighter and colder than they did before Christmas.

A bit of creativity with the coloured cellophane from Quality Street sweets and I now have soft warm lights. I've also made some more 'shades' in different colours and combinations so I can now adjust my lighting to suit different scenarios and moods.

The lights are all LED so no risk of over heating.

Felt very off and sad all day that Christmas/New Year is definitely over now. All the decorations etc are down, the food has been eaten, the Christmas TV is off the planner because we've caught up and now we're all starting the (usual) new year diet (always 'start' the first full week of the new year to give us chance to get rid of all the remaining Christmas treats/booze etc)

This was the first Christmas that we were free to do what we wanted when we wanted and how we wanted for the first time in all of our lives as now the man who was a horrible and destructive influence over our entire lives died in Oct. For the first time we had an incredible time - made doubly special by my nephew being born last year and it being his first Christmas.

And now it's all over :(

Hopefully the first of many Cotton

Thank you @Leadershipmaterial
DM in picture with Dcat a few weeks ago - due to her Alzheimer’s - DM has forgotten she doesn’t like cats!
Dcat is very pleased about this 😀

I always stagger it. Cards down one day, then the random tinsel I drape over pictures the next, then other bits and pieces the third and finally the tree on the fourth. Stops it seeming so bare so suddenly.

I have a paper star with a light inside that I bought in Stockholm which is really beautiful. I keep it up all year round.

Any Swedish person who sees that in the middle of summer is going to be very amused, as that's definitely a Christmas decoration! 😅

Thank you Jane , you're right! :) This coming Christmas he'll be even more aware of what's happening so it'll be even better! :)

Our tree will stay up whilst we are still enjoying it, usually all of January and sometimes later! The Xmas decorations will come off but the tree and the lights will stay.

I confess to feeling a bit blue yesterday afternoon as I was taking down the stuff. I love Christmas and we have had a lovely time this year, good balance of family stuff/parties/festive activities and getting outdoors.
But we went out for a nice walk after I finished ,had coffee and cake (always helps) and a nice ,simple dinner.
We were then looking on line for things to do for our holiday in February ,checked work emails and a client has been in touch about an interesting new project,and a diary reminder that I have a lunch with an old friend on Friday,,

Got all work stuff ready and had an early night with new book.

Woke up this morning feeling energised to get back to work and thought life is good .Happy new year everyone

YANBU but I feel the opposite. I'm now enjoying a different type of warm fuzzy feeling watching the kids have the space with the tree out the way to enjoy their new toys. toys that better last them now we have no money left

this year i finally got my much wanted white tree it looked so nice with the twinkly lights and all my fave baubles etc sentimental pieces like a tiny teddy my daughter had on her first xmas etc i did not like taking it down, we have a pretty dark lounge and the lights really made it come alive. was so tempted to leave it up like i said to my OH wont need to put it up next xmas! oh well its down now and all packed away

Glad its not just me

Finally got round to it today. We have these lovely tall nutcracker men on the fireplace and I love looking up from sofa seeing them staring down at me with a little smile, so packing them away and seeing such a bare, soulless, cold mantelpiece is awful!
We also bring out this large Santa soft toy the kids love all December, as I packed him away I had a big cuddle and did shed a few tears...

Keeping the faux fur throws and cushions and ordering a few more winter Yankee candles to cheer us all up though. Christmas might be over bit we are still in Winter so cosy winter themed decor is still ok?!

sundowners good excuse to buy some nice things for your mantelpiece and definitely winter theme is good.

Hatetheendof true... struggling to find anything that has the height and character they do though!

I wish I could find some items that give the same effect as Christmas decorations but aren't Christmas decorations, if you see what I mean? We have lights around the fireplace and lit twigs in vases but I need something more, I just don't know what. Does anyone have any ideas?

Snowman figurines (even better if they’re candleholders), a lighted winter village or scene (basically a Christmas village but why does it have to be just for Christmas?), a branch in a vase with snowflake baubles and a string of lights.

I shall be leaving my tree up for as long as I feel like it!