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 !

Boxing Day tbh. I love Christmas Eve and Christmas day but Boxing Day is always a bit shitty and flat. I hate the week between Christmas and new year, it just drags on and on.

My tree usually goes up second weekend of December (sometimes the first if I'm really organised) then comes down before NYE. I love the build up to Christmas but get so exhausted with work and everything that I'm totally knackered and use the week off work in between Christmas and New Year to recharge. Thankfully we see family all year round so don't have to traipse round visiting loads of people. My adult children are all home too usually so we spend the time going for walks or bike rides or just watching films and eating rubbish food!

This year, the build up has been not so good, I'm more exhausted than ever due to working two years without a holiday from work of more than 2 days, my kids won't be home until Christmas Eve which they will spend at their dads then they are all going back to their various homes on 28th instead of New Years Eve.

Technically it ends on Twelfth Night as that's when we take all the decorations down. But I usually still leave several sets of fairy lights up around the house because they look so pretty. Then DH and I always try and go away toward the end of January for a weekend in a cosy cottage somewhere. So there's always that to look forward to.

Sometime between NY and the 6th - whenever i get sick of it!

My brother’s birthday is the 2nd Jan so I think we never dragged it out as kids - means I always want to finish by about then still!

The week between Christmas and the new year us my favourite! No cooking unless you feel like it, just living off bread and cheese and cake and chocolate and salad and clementines; pottering around the house in pyjamas doing jigsaws and reading Christmas present books and watching films; going ice skating; having proper long Skype conversations with family, going for walks with friends (with dogs if we are lucky), just having time to talk to each other. I try to book as many days of holiday then as I can.