To hate having Christmas decorations up after Christmas

[Butterflyfluff]

I get it if you are very religious but I’m not

Christmas is a celebration for us but not for religious reasons so I’m happy to put decorations up early, in order to countdown to Christmas

But once Christmas is over, I want them gone.

I love it that there’s houses now with all their lights up already.

That makes far more sense to me than having them up in January when it’s all over.

If neither of those traditions fit the bill, then by all means proclaim yourself a sucker for tacky commercialism.

Is there somewhere specific I need to proclaim this? A special section of MN or should I open my window and shout it?

What do you mean by after Christmas? Do you mean you take them down first thing Boxing Day? Or just that you have them down by new year?

YABU because Christmas isn't "technically" over until 6 January...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas

But do whatever you want, leave others to do whatever they want

Ours go up around the 20th and are down before New Years Eve. But....it doesn't matter

It's up to anyone what they do but I'd find it very strange to start Christmas before advent and end it before Epiphany. For everything there is a season and all that.

My decorations go up the first weekend in December and come down by Hogmanay. I'm Scottish, the whole house needs a clean before the new year arrives!

I’m not remotely religious, but Christmas is twelve days long, after all.

I think that people who throw up their decorations in November and then race to tidy them all away (and post about it on Instagram) by the end of the day on Boxing Day, THINK they’re being super organised and superior, but really, they just don’t understand how Christmas works.

Just my opinion 😉

In our house, decs go up a couple of days before Christmas, and come down on the 5th.

I keep them up as we have a NYE party, and also we are home to enjoy them. Packing them up the weekend before the kids go to school is a bit of a ritual too, and helps them get ready for school. Lots of chatting about the year ahead whilst doing it.

@DrCoconut

It's up to anyone what they do but I'd find it very strange to start Christmas before advent and end it before Epiphany. For everything there is a season and all that.

It's because Christmas is a hodgepodge of festivals and traditions...so it's celebrated differently by everyone. There's no correct way.

I don’t understand taking them down straight away. New Years is part of the holidays too and it’s cheery. I have started to put mine up earlier and earlier (not before dec though) because I love them. I think certain people are always looking to the next ‘thing’. If there’s one time of year to just enjoy the moment and slow down it’s Xmas/New Years.

Me too OP,. I try to bargain with DH to take everything down/out on 27th.

Our rooms.jusr seem so much larger when not draped in 'stuff'.

Try to keep them up for New Year’s Day but usually get pushed of with tinsel everywhere by Boxing Day .. but I do have them up from next week though

If you’re fine with Christmas being extended beyond the traditional period by being brought forward to November, I can’t see why you find it strange that others like it lasting a bit longer in the other direction. Especially since the first days of January actually are still part of the traditional Christmas period, quite unlike November. As well as being a brief period. Seems like an inconsistent position.

I guess it’s no surprise from this post that I’m in the up later, down 12th night camp. I love the week between Christmas and new year, and find a few last days of having the tree up aids the post-Christmas transition to dreary january. Whereas counting down to Christmas for well over a month does nothing for me at all!

I mean. Christians believe that Advent is the preparation for Christmas and this year it starts in November. I like being able to leave the decorations until Candlemas in February.

Christmas is a religious festival and lasts 12 days until the 6th Jan. Well said!

@BeingATwatItsABingThing

If neither of those traditions fit the bill, then by all means proclaim yourself a sucker for tacky commercialism.

Is there somewhere specific I need to proclaim this? A special section of MN or should I open my window and shout it?

Hear ye Hear ye.... I proclaim, that I, Lettertohermoine, am a Ticky Tacky, commercial sucker of Christmas balls. Neither Christian or pagan be, I shall banish myself to the lower than a worms ballsack category of Christmas Tradition Basher and leave my tree up till the clock strikes trice on the twelfth night because Cliff Richard on Mumsnet told me to.

@SachaStark2

I’m not remotely religious, but Christmas is twelve days long, after all.

I think that people who throw up their decorations in November and then race to tidy them all away (and post about it on Instagram) by the end of the day on Boxing Day, THINK they’re being super organised and superior, but really, they just don’t understand how Christmas works.

Just my opinion 😉

In our house, decs go up a couple of days before Christmas, and come down on the 5th.

Christmas doesn't "work" in any particular way. Because it's a mish-mash of traditions/celebrations from history.

There's literally no reason to be decorating your house if you're only following a Christian celebration. Bringing trees/foliage inside is pagan... Yule logs aren't a Christmas tradition... but part of Yule (clue in the name!) ..
Hanging shiny reflective baubles is to fend off evil spirits... Hanging wreaths? Nothing to do with the Christian Christmas... Gift giving
.. actually that's part of Saturnalia originally etc etc

But it's OK, there's no correct way to celebrate Christmas.

One year when I was in the middle of a divorce I left the tree up until the end of February. It wasn’t visible from the street and I found it comforting in the evenings. All the other Christmas decorations came down earlier, though.

I like the bit after Christmas Dinner best. That's the moment of relaxing into your decorated home with the fridge and cupboards full of prepared food. And just be together for a few days of no work, just visiting relatives maybe. It's the point for me and I'd be gutted to be told "it's over now and get the tinsel down!"😂

@SnackSizeRaisin

Christmas is a religious festival and lasts 12 days until the 6th Jan. Well said!

Christmas isn't just a religious festival any more...

It was never just a religious festival.

*Christmas doesn't "work" in any particular way. Because it's a mish-mash of traditions/celebrations from history.

There's literally no reason to be decorating your house if you're only following a Christian celebration. Bringing trees/foliage inside is pagan... Yule logs aren't a Christmas tradition... but part of Yule (clue in the name!) ..
Hanging shiny reflective baubles is to fend off evil spirits... Hanging wreaths? Nothing to do with the Christian Christmas... Gift giving
.. actually that's part of Saturnalia originally etc etc

But it's OK, there's no correct way to celebrate Christmas.*

Bang on @00100001

@KrispyKale

It was never just a religious festival.

Well, the Christian Christmas is supposedly a religious festival.

It's just one that borrows elements from others.

I have to have them put away on new year's eve.I can't celebrate the new year with Christmas stuff up.

Yes I feel the same but the dcs want them up as long as possible. The thing I love about Christmas is the build up and all that ends on Xmas Day.