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.

Mine go up at the start of the school holidays and come down on 12th night.

I couldn’t care less what anyone else does.

Usually by Boxing Day I'm itching to pack everything away and get the house tidy. I do hold out, usually until at least New Year's Day, but I have taken them down earlier in the past.

I like to have decorations until twelfth night. I’d feel like I was missing out if I cut it short - I love the time after Christmas Day. Don’t care what other people do though.

@Hollyhead

I find people who cut Christmas off at Boxing Day a bit soulless - it’s a red flag for people who like a commercial Christmas for me. I’m not religious, but there’s so much family joy to be had in the time between Christmas and new year, we prioritise different things than we do the rest of the year. It’s a lovely joyful time.

I agree with this completely. We dont put decs up ridiculously early. We dont refer to advent as christmas. And we spend christmas eve until the epiphany in christmas mode doing family and christmassy things. We have several Christmas dinners with different family members on different days. We have a fun family focused two weeks.

Those people who take their decorations down on boxing day then spend the next week or so complaining about being bored and just eating I just wonder what is the point in all that build up they do for one day???

@WomanStanleyWoman

I hate people who take their decorations down before twelfth night.

That's not normal.

Random woman I’ll never meet thinks I’m not normal. Woe is me.

I leave mine up until the 6th of February like the Queen does

Personally, I think that if you put them up so early, you’re bored and want to take them down on Boxing Day, you’re doing it wrong. Advent is for anticipation, Christmas (at least until New Year, if not Twelfth Night) is for celebration.

@bridgetreilly - what if you don’t believe in or celebrate Advent/12th night?

I love the days between Christmas Eve and Epiphany. Nice food, presents, twinkly lights, ideally time away from work and school, whole days in pyjamas playing with the Christmas gifts, the figures of the Magi getting closer and closer to the baby Jesus in the nativity set each day, going for wintery walks and catching up with friends and family. Then a final feast for the Epiphany where someone gets to be king or queen for the day and a night out with friends for nollaig na mBan before getting the house back in order in time for Candlemas.

The time before Christmas is all about preparing and can feel rushed and pressured, but Boxing Day onward is pure relaxation, and I will drag it out for as long as I can.

@DaisyWaldron

I love the days between Christmas Eve and Epiphany. Nice food, presents, twinkly lights, ideally time away from work and school, whole days in pyjamas playing with the Christmas gifts, the figures of the Magi getting closer and closer to the baby Jesus in the nativity set each day, going for wintery walks and catching up with friends and family. Then a final feast for the Epiphany where someone gets to be king or queen for the day and a night out with friends for nollaig na mBan before getting the house back in order in time for Candlemas.

The time before Christmas is all about preparing and can feel rushed and pressured, but Boxing Day onward is pure relaxation, and I will drag it out for as long as I can.

I have to say you make that sound lovely. .

@WomanStanleyWoman

Random woman I’ll never meet thinks I’m not normal. Woe is me.

Willing to bet 99.9% of people you meet in life would find you abnormal if you told them you hate people who put their baubles back in their boxes too early. Most of us reserve hatred for people who do horrible things, but not you! You're special!

Our come down on NYD. We get them all packed away, the house is cleaned and tidied and the depressing month of January commences. 😂

I always feel a bit trapped under a shit tonne of presents, toys to fund homes for and a massive tree always then feels in the way. I take mine down day after boxing day I like to see the new year in all fresh and clean not start the new year with the chore of taking decs down

Parker - if you don't believe enough to question the traditions, the WHY are you adopting any of them? Surely in for a penny in for a pound? I am not a Christian but I adopt Christmas (in the same way the Christians adopted saturnalia) because it's fun. And the part AFTER the giving of gifts- when we can enjoy and share the gifts, relax and unwind - surely THAT is the bit the pickers and choosers should go for? I'm at a loss as to why the "build up" has taken precedence over the actual enjoyment of a period. Outside of consumerism, there's no reason that so many adopt the worst of the period whilst dropping the best?

Traditionally in the UK, Christmas decorations go up on Christmas Eve (24 December) and come down on Epiphany (6 January). So good reason for them still to be up in January, none for them to be up already in December.

Although of course, individual people can do what they want - including leaving them up all year if desired.

Willing to bet 99.9% of people you meet in life would find you abnormal if you told them you hate people who put their baubles back in their boxes too early.

I couldn’t care less.

@WomanStanleyWoman

Willing to bet 99.9% of people you meet in life would find you abnormal if you told them you hate people who put their baubles back in their boxes too early.

I couldn’t care less.

Unless they are early bauble movers...then you hate them 🤣

I do love how het up people get about other people's private bauble movements

@Lammysaurus

Traditionally in the UK, Christmas decorations go up on Christmas Eve (24 December) and come down on Epiphany (6 January). So good reason for them still to be up in January, none for them to be up already in December.

Although of course, individual people can do what they want - including leaving them up all year if desired.

"Traditionally" when was that originally the case? Like Christmas trees weren't part of it at all until relatively recently, now they're considered traditional.

Not being snarky, simply curious what you're drawing from. Pondering how our Christmas celebrations have evolved over thousands of years, absorbing customs from various sources.

It's interesting reading through because it illustrates the way it has evolved for a lot of people from a two week celebration into weeks of prep for a one day celebration. Hadn't really thought about it much before.

Still don't think it's worth walking under any buses over, either way.

Wow! So many declaring others celebrate Christmas wrong. We celebrate Christmas as an opportunity for Santa to come and visit us, buy presents for loved ones and spend time playing games and enjoying each other’s company over the Christmas period. We have advent calendars filled with chocolate, we don’t venture into a church of any kind and the only other day we celebrate is NYE.

Our traditions are perfect for us because they’re ours. Couldn’t care less what anyone else does as long as they’re also having a lovely time.

I put mine up as close to 1st Dec as I can and take them down around New Year's Day. I'm not bothered about the 12th night tradition.

Meh. Our traditions have evolved over the years. I first started putting tree, etc up around mid-December. Then it became after December first.

This week, we put a tree up in the playroom (we bought a nicer one for the living room last year) and the kids will make decorations for it from now until the 24th. We put our nice tree up today, b/c our adult daughter and our 'adopted' daughter were able to be here. Given the pandemic and that bonus kid is military, we weren't going to risk waiting and ending up with neither of them able to come home in December to decorate the tree before the 25th.

Trees will come down whenever we get around to it.

Given everything that's happened in the last 2 yrs or so, globally, I think if decorating 'early' gives someone a bit of joy, have at it. The only way I'd care when someone puts their tree up is if I was expected to help with it.

We have a real tree so put it up mid December. But we keep all our Christmas stuff (including the tree for as long as it will last) up until Candlemas on 2nd February.

Do what you want, but Xmas lasts 12 days.