To think my house looks empty and boring now that the decs are down and I have a sudden urge to buy a lot of house stuff?

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Decs only came down today so it's my first time sitting in my living room with it back in it's default state.

It suddenly looks so bland and boring 😭 I know I'll get used to it again but it's making me want to go online and buy loads of crap for my living room.

Anyone else feel like this when the decs come down?

Why have you taken them down? Its still Christmas!

Strange that people think taking decs down is a social media trend?
I’ve always taken mine down after Boxing Day as Christmas is done and dustrd for my family then. We live in a small space and don’t celebrate new year

Yes similar here - we’ve got lots of tea lights on timers to come on six hours a day through winter. Also a nice new throw ready to go out. January is so depressing so we do a few things to keep the place looking nice and warm and welcoming.

Social media trend 😂

Another, "why did you take them down so early" from me.

Tip for next year, don't take them all down at once. Take the tree down and leave the other decs up for a few days.

Same here. I’ll take ours down on Tuesday, not before.

And yes, I put back the regular decs which I put away at Christmas. That works well.

Why are your decorations down? It isn't 12th night yet!

Keep them up for longer than you are grateful for the space when they come down. Also add something for your home to your wish list for Christmas. This year, I have new candles to put out when the decs are down.
Also doubly excited because our extension was finished just before Christmas so I haven’t styled it yet, right now it’s covered in Christmas decor.

Buy yourself a big bunch of tulips instead op!

Nothing to do with social media (Facebook, instagram thick tok) don’t have it.

Took them down, because we’d had more than enough of them being up.

Nope. Love it when ours go. I didn't put them up until the 16th and they'll be gone today. Mum used to wait until 12th night but I think there's something depressing about xmas decs after Xmas. I've always done nyd and once the kids leave home, I don't think I'll even bother at all. My house is full of huge, actual plants. I don't need any other tat.

Oh shall you? How marvellous.

I was responding to the idea of being utterly “baffled” at someone taking their tree down on the 31st. Not exactly the head scratcher of the year is it?

I leave my tree up until February and call it my winter tree!

It's a new year. We always have new, year new start. They come down on New Year's Eve , the house is cleaned, big vase of Spring flowers on the kitchen table and we go fresh and clean into the future. Makes me feel 'itchy' to have Christmas decorations still up when we have gone into a new year.

Spring flowers, twinkly lights and candles, that’s what you need.

Step away from online shopping. You likely don't need anything for your house.

Every year, and every year I seem to get round it by rearranging the furniture!

To be fair, we moved into this house a year ago and just chucked things in the living room vaguely the way the previous owners had arranged, and it had been bothering me for a while. It feels much better now, and not so much of the 'empty now' feeling, because we've changed it?

I do also have some decor that is seasonal, e.g. cushions, ornaments - so we swap things out periodically, rather than removing entirely, and this helps. I don't buy each year, we've built these things up over 20+ years of adulthood.

Same here. I dislike candles and fairy lights as they give me eye strain. I don't need to feel "cosy" either. It just makes me feel claustrophobic.

Light and airy every time for me.

Thank you SO much!

Not taken mine down yet, but I’m sitting looking for some kind of twinkly light thing I can have permanently in my conservatory, as I love the gentle light from the Christmas tree in there, meaning I don’t have to put the Big Light on or risk stubbing my toe when I go to let the dog out!

It most definitely is baffling. It’s the same as if you took your tree down on Christmas Eve. New Years Eve and Day are still very much part of Christmas-time, and there’s still a way to go beyond that.

Is it really baffling?

I don't see NYE or NYD as part of Christmas at all.

I'm not baffled that you do, its just different people doing things differently.

Yep!

Although something we often do is go out and buy a nice colourful bunch of flowers to stand on a little table where the tree was. I find some cheerful pop music from my 90s hey-day helps!
I've taken everything down this morning, tree is back in the box under the stairs, decs are in plastic tubs in the garage, cards have been made into next years gift tags.
Still need to find homes for the random piles of presents still dotted around, but find they generally disappear into new homes over the next couple of days.

I keep decs up until the 5/6th then I'm ready to take them down

Only if you adhere to that view of Christmas. We take our tree down any time we please as we aren’t Christian.

It’s only baffling if you lack the imagination to understand that people live different lives from you.