When does Christmas 'end' for you?

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When I was a kid I felt it was different compared to now. I felt like Christmas lasted for days after the big day, it would still feel magical between Christmas and new year. We'd visit family between Christmas and new year. I'm not sure if it was just because I was a kid, I was fortunate enough my parents had jobs where they'd be off for the whole festive period. But it felt like shops shut for a few days too! 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure if it's just me or because I'm grown up but these days I feel like people forget about Christmas soon as the day is over. No Christmas songs played after the 25th! Shops back to normal. Often people take their decs down

What does it 'end' for you.

Won't be ready to let go this year. We all have covid at the minute. Dd was last to get and she won't be out of isolation until the 25th so we've pretty much missed the whole of December which makes me so sad 😪

I just feel like making it last this year. I don't take my tree down until after New Year's Day anyway!

I am going to look at doing things we'd normally do now after Christmas and hoping it'll still fee Christmassy !

I take the tree down on the 27 or 28th usually! Look forward to eating normally and having the space back. And having a good clean.

My kids go to their dads then, so they have a second christmas and I get a tidy peaceful haven. My ds's birthday is on the 2nd Jan so I've always cleared everything away by 1 Jan.

6th Jan. Christmas doesn't start until 25th Dec, it's advent until then.

Tomorrow when I take all the decorations down in my classroom. Then round two starts!

27th December the decs come down and all the toys get put in their respective child's rooms but we still slob chill and enjoy Christmas until the kids go back to school.
My sons severely autistic and settles better once the decorations are put away I'm not the gringe 🤣

It always ended at Epiphany when I was a child and I follow that now. My DM every year expresses suprise that the DC go back to school before Epiphany! (Even though it happens every year )

New Year's Eve or New Year's Day depending on when that falls and when I am back to work.

Xmas starts far too early now, I will buy a tree tomorrow - and it will go up probably this weekend and stays until 12th night. We do have a door wreath up and advent calendars though.
The tree and mantle decoration make the days after Xmas at home so lovely so always happy to leave them until 6th Jan.
Do like to browse the online sales though from Xmas eve onward.

I feel like Christmas has become a month long!! It's excessive, I always feel I should be doing more for my children which is ridiculous as I do plenty and quite frankly I'm relieved when it's all over. I'm not Christian I don't know why I do it but to me it's just excess with the presents and money and I have to dig deep to remind my children that it's about anything other than what they are being given.

Im done on 27th

It ends when the feeling goes. I can get very miss havisham over Christmas. I don't mind leaving the table strewn with some of cracker debris.. Etc for days or weeks.
Once we had the tree until valentines day. Sometimes I /we feel the need to start afresh sooner and get going...
It was depend. But it do love it when it snow later in January and we have still got decorations up.

Christmas is a pagan human festival to keep up spirits in the darkest days and I love it! Christianity hijacked those dates.
I really enjoy the story of the nativity though.

We only got the tree up yesterday.

I absolutely love Christmas but take all the decorations down and the tree away on the morning of the 27th. I find decorations after the event depressing. I really enjoy Christmas and then I move on.

I don't like going into new year with my Xmas tree still up or any decs. So will usually take them down 29th or 30th

Christmas definitely lasts until the New Year for me. I love those days between Christmas and New Year - they are some of the very best days of the year. The only days when I really feel relaxed about just snuggling down, playing games, doing jigsaws, reading books, eating treat food. Mixed up with a little low key socialising, some walks, usually a trip to the theatre. If I didn't have that part of Christmas I think I'd pretty much hate it. I enjoy Christmas/Boxing day, but only safe in the knowledge that I can relax afterwards.

We also only got our tree yesterday, so it will only be up a couple of weeks. I love the time between Christmas and New Year to sit and enjoy it.

We normally work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day so Christmas is only 1 day. Decs come down sometime between Boxing Day and NYE

I'm feeling kind of sad for those people who want to banish Christmas on Boxing Day evening!

The week between Christmas and New year is my favourite week of the year, this happy nothingness where you don't need to be anywhere at a particular time or even know what day it is. We see family, watch films, go on walks, light the fire, just be together in an unhurried way. Decorations come down after new year but before the schools go back - helps the feeling of fresh start for our kids to have put it all away I think.

When I take the Christmas tree down on January 6th.

For me it’s after the 28th as that’s my mums birthday and we count it as part of the Christmas celebrations, so usually the day after we take Christmas decs down

Well Christmas ends for us around 27th, we don’t take the decs down until 6th as DS birthday on the 5th and he loves the lights. I never know what to do with myself between Boxing Day and New Years though 😄

I will never understand people who are dying to take the decorations down so soon after Christmas so they can ‘have a good clean’.

I’m more in the slattern camp though.

12 days here. We have decorations up since 1st Advent but the tree only comes out on the 21st. All stays until the 6th December, the tree may go down to get it to the recycling center before, depending on the day of the week the 6th is on.

Our nativity set comes out on Saturday, the wise men will start their long walk, Mary and Joseph are also starting to make their way to the stable.

I always hate going shopping or to work on the 27th, everything is down, it just looks so miserable.

I do actually understand that everything looks bigger/cleaner without the decorations thing, but I don't cut the holiday short to achieve it, I just have it after the 12 days.

To me it's like I love that feeling of coming back into my own house again after being abroad, but I don't fly back after the first day to achieve it (!), I just enjoy the whole 2 weeks away and then get the nice 'back to comfortable normality' feeling.

I think schools play a big part in pushing Christmas early. It would never have occurred to me to do anything Christmas related so early before I had kids, but because they break so far in advance of Christmas but still want to do all the Christmas-y things (which ends up being a week of Nativity performances/Christmas party/Panto/Christmas baking etc), they start 'Christmas' before it's even mid December and then the kids start asking why we don't have decorations up yet when it's still two weeks before it all starts.

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I will never understand people who are dying to take the decorations down so soon after Christmas so they can ‘have a good clean’.

I’m more in the slattern camp though.

I very rarely have any urge to have a good clean January 1st feel like a good day to take them down and start a diet to me (which I usually forget about by 2nd Jan!

@Abracadabra12345 it really made a difference to me to see the homes still lit up around my town and neighbourhood.