I have just taken the decorations down and..

[charmkin]

it feels so good! Tidy house, clutter free and hoovered, dusted!
Xmas is justwork work work to me and I for one am glad it's over!

mine'll be gone by new year's day... it's usually part of my hangover cure ritual to take dex down while swearing under breath etc.

Our tree has only been up a week, need to get our moneys worth and leave it up as long as possible!

we haven't reached the 12th day of Christmas yet.......what's the rush taking them down???

am tempted to take our tree down but leave other bits as we have someone coming t0

fit new boiler week on monday and dd2s 1st bday next sat...

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can't stand the clutter after the event
just glad to get another job out of the way

but Christmas isn't over yet.......Christmas day is but we're only on about day 5 or something aren't we???

5th is the 12th night I think..but dont want to spend dd2s bday cleaning house and decorations etc.

I think we may take ours down on NYE, but am itching to get back to "normal"...I love it when you take the tree and decs down and the house looks cleaner and bigger!

lol ours came down boxing day mil went up 1st dec and staying up till 12 night!
if it were up to dp the tree would go up crimbo eve down boxing day lol was nice to have the lounge back and the yelling "dont touch the tree dd" has stopped thank god!

Did our yesterday with a sigh of relief! Siting room looks tons bigger and brighter

And I thought I was ahead by starting to put the Christmas presents we received in their rightful places!

Ooh good, does that mean we can take ours down? I have always left it until the actual 12th night. tbh the house looks like a bomb has hit. maybe we can get the kids to help on Monday, before I start getting into the New Year's Eve mood... hmmmmm

I can't bear to takes ours down yet - it looks so lovely

may get rid of the cards though....

our tree looks like its about to fall over anyway. the kids aren't interested in it anymore, unless there is the possibility of finding chocolate on it. i have mindees all landing on us on 2 jan and, as the tree is in the playroom, it will be good to have the space available to them when they get here....

Ours are down and toys now sorted into new plastic storage boxes!

Like Nemo its dd2 1st birthday next saturday so wanted house looking normal for a few days before we put some birthday decs up and she has her party (lots of little people and a xmas tree didnt seem very appealing)

Bits and pieces slowly disappearing. We were helped this year by the monstrous Xmas tree falling down by itself on Xmas night. We chucked it out back and replaced it with a 3-foot fibre optic.
Hopefully, by evening of New Year's Day only this mini-tree will remain and will be chucked into loft as soon as kids asleep.
Leaving the house clear on the morning of 2 Jan when dh goes back to work and we can all get on with life.

well tree is down but thats all

eanh we had dd1s bday party on 16th jan and had to block tree in with table..dont fanvy repeating it for dd2

do you mean 16th dec nemo? Can you believe C and H are almost 1

sorry yes H was 2 in dec and no cant believe c and h are nearly 1 where has the time gone!!!