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To want to take down Christmas decorations on 31stDec

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ThatCyanJoker · 31/12/2024 08:26

We’ve had tree and Christmas decorations up since early December. I’m so ready to take them down now and get the house back to normal, but DH says it’s way too early and how could I think that was usual. Out of interest, do you keep your tree etc until 6 January?

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hopeishere · 31/12/2024 13:12

Ours come down on New Year's Day. Hoping to get up early tomorrow and get cracking. I'm back to work on Thursday.

shellyleppard · 31/12/2024 13:13

Mine are down, house is clean ready for new year. Just need to cook a nice dinner for tonight

Tanglemead · 31/12/2024 13:20

Ours never come down until 2nd at the earliest. We usually pick the most convenient day for us between 2nd and twelfth night. But up to and including New Year’s Day is definitely still part of the Christmas season, so I can’t understand why anyone would want the decorations down before then. But then I love our house decorated for Christmas (we have lots of decorations indoors) and I feel sad when they come down and the house feels quite stark and plain for a while.

DecayingRelic · 31/12/2024 13:22

packed mine up on Boxing Day

Applepoop · 31/12/2024 13:26

mine came down 26th

fresh start, moving forwards, clearing and cleaning

AlexaSetATimer · 31/12/2024 13:34

Wednesdaysotherchild · 31/12/2024 08:48

Put them up the week before Christmas and take them down on the 6th -as per the tradition - it’s called the 12 days of Christmas for a reason! You lot are all peaking too soon, frankly 🤣

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I agree. I love having lights and tree for Hogmanay and early Jan, so much more cheerful!

BeerForMyHorses · 31/12/2024 13:40

Mine came down on Boxing Day

FrogOnAYuleLog · 31/12/2024 14:05

ThatCyanJoker · 31/12/2024 08:26

We’ve had tree and Christmas decorations up since early December. I’m so ready to take them down now and get the house back to normal, but DH says it’s way too early and how could I think that was usual. Out of interest, do you keep your tree etc until 6 January?

Fresh new year needs a fresh new house IMO. Playroom, living room, bedrooms been blitzed, sprayed, hoovered, aired. Tree (in kitchen/diner) coming down this afternoon ahead of our new year party tonight. It’s been a bad one actually, dropped needles from the minute we got it! It has some bare branches!! Never had that before.

FrogOnAYuleLog · 31/12/2024 14:07

We have lights around the house year round though tbh. It’s not like no Xmas decorations = joyless house 😄

HelpMeGetThrough · 31/12/2024 14:25

FrogOnAYuleLog · 31/12/2024 14:07

We have lights around the house year round though tbh. It’s not like no Xmas decorations = joyless house 😄

Same here. LEDs around the front and back windows and a nice selection of colours.

zingally · 31/12/2024 14:38

Mine all comes down on the 1st. Like you, I've had it up since early December and definitely ready for a fresh house for a fresh year.

MyLoftySwan · 31/12/2024 14:44

Ours are usually down before new year. I have an early January birthday and like the distinction between it and Christmas. However as a charity aren't collecting our tree until 10th January it'll stay up for a bit longer yet.

I have however got the outdoor decorations down today so they don't take off in the winds due 🤣

WaitingforStrike · 31/12/2024 14:44

I'd like to keep my tree up and put everything else away I think. Children definitely want the decorations to remain, so will keep up till close to the end of the holidays.

Winterskyfall · 31/12/2024 16:00

Mine are mostly down. They start to annoy me after Christmas and I just want a more minimal look in the house again.

AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin · 31/12/2024 16:02

Ours came down at the weekend.

TheFormidableMrsC · 31/12/2024 16:05

I'll take mine down tomorrow only because I'm having a small NYE gathering tonight and it's festive!

Anotheremmaemma · 31/12/2024 16:07

We've taken ours down today.

Had them up since the beginning of December.

I would have liked to keep them up for longer but I always end up feeling like it's a job hanging over me. We've got an enormous tree, it makes a lot of mess and I like to get the house nice and clean for New Year's Day.

Got fairy lights and lots of candles to try and keep it cosy.

Parker231 · 31/12/2024 16:08

NotThisOldChestnutAgain · 31/12/2024 12:33

There really seems to have been a change in the last maybe 10 years to have the decorations up so early. When I was young( now early 60s) most people put the tree up round about a week before Christmas, lots would do it a couple of days before.
When my children were at school we put the tree up a couple of days before the end of term. No one put their decorations up on the first of December and if you happened to see a tree up then it was very unusual, whereas now it's not uncommon in November.
No wonder people are sick of them.
It does seem very joyless though to take them down on boxing day. I would never take them down before new year, I too take them down on the 5th or 6th, but I only put mine up on the 20th December so I'm not at all fed up with them. People do seem to have forgotten about the 12 days of Christmas.

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Many of us don’t acknowledge the 12 days of Christmas so 5/6th January has no relevance

longtompot · 31/12/2024 16:09

Ours will all be put away on the 5th Jan. I love having my tree up and all the fairy lights in the front garden and will miss them. I have fairy lights indoors all year round but it still feels a bit bleak when the tree has gone.
But, I do enjoy the space when it has gone

handsdownthebest · 31/12/2024 16:09

Mine are down. Tree round the back to get picked up and decs back in the loft.

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 31/12/2024 16:30

FrogOnAYuleLog · 31/12/2024 14:07

We have lights around the house year round though tbh. It’s not like no Xmas decorations = joyless house 😄

we do too, I love my lights everywhere

weegiemum · 31/12/2024 16:32

Ours only went up on 15th December and will come down this weekend (or possibly Thursday if we can be bothered). Like keeping the twinkly lights up as long as possible, the awful weather means we're not seeing the days lengthen yet and I hate the dark and cold with no lights to make things brighter.

Off to light some candles!

flumposie · 31/12/2024 16:35

We take ours down on Jan 2nd to make space for our daughter's birthday cards on the 4th.

unchienandalucia · 31/12/2024 16:37

People have Christmas all the wrong way round. Christmas starts on Christmas Day and lasts 12 days. People starting Christmas at end November and taking down on flipping Boxing Day! No wonder as they're fed up. And it's all driven and manipulated by commercialism. I would put ours up Christmas Eve as we did when I was young but my children wouldn't have it. We compromise on a week before Christmas and they come down on 6th. But you do you.

ReformMyArse · 31/12/2024 16:43

Down on Saturday or Sunday. January is bleak enough and I like the tree lights