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.

Everything's been put away apart from the twinkling penguin.

Also wooden or tin soldiers.

A selection of winter animals.

I hate the bare look also. I've kept some of the festive cushions out which my daughters are questioning, but in my opinion stags/reindeers are not just for Christmas! I'm also looking out for some large lantern style candle holders, so I can keep the warm glow going until the evenings get brighter.

I love Christmas and I'm not superstitious so my decs are staying up until at least the end of January.

Both DM and I feel very flat after Christmas (which we spent together) so I went to stay with my parents last Monday and came home tonight. We had a lovely time.

If you don’t like taking then down then leave them up as long as you want. It’s not rocket appliances

Yanbu

Yanbu! I am actually going shopping tomorrow for some colourful bits to make the rooms happier

I normally hate taking them down but the last few years I've taken them down new years day and couldn't wait to get my living room back to normal. I think this year though I have alot on, including our wedding in june so taking them down Mark's the start of what we hope to be a really good hear so I was excited once they were down that we could forget xmas and get back to planning

That's awful, leonaa. I hope he doesn't often make you cry.

I roll from event to festival throughout the year:, eight Sabbats, 5 family birthdays, numerous random days like Burns’ Night.
So there are lights, different decorations and colour changes throughout the year for us and we love them all.
Keeping lights up and bringing in forced bulbs and seasonal stuff will help you get over the sadness, and likewise those who enjoy the space and lack of clutter and fresh start in a new year.
Find something that feels positive to do.

I hate taking them down but do enjoy the space and opportunity to have a really good clean.

After Christmas I try to embrace winter so burn a lovely candle (Jo Malone Incense & Embers is perfect. Crazy expensive but I save it for this time of year and burn it a couple of times a week) and spend time choosing a nice bouquet of flowers. I also start a jigsaw with a wintry scene, drink lots of hot chocolate in front of the fire, get outside for walks that end in tea and cake.

I try to look at it as all the lovely, cosy bits of Christmas but without the stress and expense.

I hate taking them down. Admittedly, December was a bit mad, plus illness and I didn't really get the festive vibe this year so was a bit half-hearted about putting the decorations up on the 23rd, so there's been a lot less up this year.

I love night time fairy light runs, and it's much bleaker when the streets lose their varied colours.

I have noticed that we're past the peak of darkest days, mainly because the weather has been less heavily overcast/ torrential rain than it was through August/ September/ October/ November/ December, so yes there is actually some light around 4pm instead of dark most days by 2:35 like it's been for months, and there are hints of bulbs poking through the ground, but it's still a good month before the first hints of spring really poke through and the sun gains a little warmth. I should check the garden... I haven't dared to wade through the lawn for yonks.

I like the idea of seperate, non-Christmassy winter decorations.

I took ours down on New Year's Eve. I was glad to get the space back, to be honest.

I'm keeping mine up for a while, there so pretty and sparkly a....and the tree box is battered and need to figure a new storage plan out.

I'm actually a bit surprised at exactly how few people have to go to work over the Christmas period! Roads were bliss, but evening getting lighter don't help when you work in a windowless office til 6pm every day!

Mine came down on Saturday. I feel a bit ripped off this year as I usually get pathetically excited about Christmas, but this time the month passed in a blur due to one of my best friends dying unexpectedly on the 2nd (the day after I'd put them up) and then feeling like a zombie, going through the motions until after her funeral on the 23rd.

Sorry about the Hooble

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I've got one of these trees that stays up all year. At Easter it has eggs/birds/butterflies hanging from it

Not that exact tree but similar

The trunk and branches of mine are glittery

Every year I have nothing to do with taking them down, dh does it. I can't help liking the clean, declutter feel afterwards but I'm crying inside as they come down. Christmas is such a light and happy point in a long, dark Winter.

That said, can't wait to see the blossom on the trees again!

This is the first year I have felt okay after taking the decs down. The house is clean and tidy and more spacious now and I feel a bit more ordered. DD is doing her GCSE mocks / revision so we have piles of books, papers, flash cards everywhere so being a bit more tidy is helping my stress levels.

I also have a vase in my lounge with led twigs and have pine cones and little lights in the fire place all year round so it still feels cosy. I love candles so will treat myself to a new one as have loved the smell of gingerbread or berry ones this Christmas. Got to think of a new smell to try now - any ideas?

I too, have one of those white trees (sans lights) that comes out on Valentines week with hearts hung on it and at Easter I have eggs and other Eastery type things (for about 3 weeks) and this year I put a Christmas tree up early at Halloween hung with cobwebs and spiders etc but not in the lounge just in the garden room that's not used that much in the winter but then changed for Christmas theme Dec 1st in Lounge.

Arghhhh I still haven't taken My tree down everything else is back to normal, but it looks so pretty all lit up in the evenings it makes me smile . Maybe tomorrow.