Page 6 | Taking the tree and decorations down on Boxing Day

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 2022-12-19T13:59:29+00:00

I mean, what? It is still the Christmas / festive period right up to New Year's Day. I don't understand why decorations are put up as early as the day after Halloween (which I have seen people squealing about this year like no other) and then taken down whilst it is actually still Christmas. Mine aren't going up until Wednesday this week at the earliest and will come down 6 January as I'm away for a few days after New Year.

Always4Brenner · 27/12/2022 20:33

My tree is away now in the hall and hidden with a sheet, my holly and berries are still about my cards will be used as tags next year must get some patterned scissors for them and do them slowly. In January it will give me project. Christmas food chocolates for weekend mince pies left this weekend. Pigs 9n blankets etc for roast dinner throughout January.

closethedongdong · 29/12/2022 21:15

Makes me laugh how people think Christmas is just one day.....
All the "now Christmas is done"

BaublesandBangles · 29/12/2022 21:35

closethedongdong · 29/12/2022 21:15

Makes me laugh how people think Christmas is just one day.....
All the "now Christmas is done"

It is done for me.

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 29/12/2022 21:36

closethedongdong · 29/12/2022 21:15

Makes me laugh how people think Christmas is just one day.....
All the "now Christmas is done"

I went out with some friends on Boxing Day and one of them said it wasn't Christmas anymore!

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MysteryBelle · 29/12/2022 21:56

We put up our decorations early and take them down late, traditionally after Epiphany, Twelfth Night. My allegiance is secretly with the ones who take down the decorations and tree right after Christmas so my position encompasses all other positions on this issue 😂

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 30/12/2022 05:25

closethedongdong · 29/12/2022 21:15

Makes me laugh how people think Christmas is just one day.....
All the "now Christmas is done"

Makes me laugh how people cannot accept others views and opinions. Christmas is done for us now. My Christmas involves the run up and a couple of days after. Yours doesn't. Great!

LolaMoon · 30/12/2022 06:18

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 30/12/2022 05:25

Makes me laugh how people cannot accept others views and opinions. Christmas is done for us now. My Christmas involves the run up and a couple of days after. Yours doesn't. Great!

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Yes! I got attacked earlier in this thread for not enjoying Christmas because I take them down immediately. They’ve been up since beginning December! We have enjoyed them for a whole month. I can’t imagine getting so angry about what other people choose to with their Xmas decorations. Life must be very hard for those people if they fly into rages so easily at such insignificant things. I’m so glad I’m not like that- it sounds a very stressful way to live.

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 30/12/2022 07:42

LolaMoon · 30/12/2022 06:18

Yes! I got attacked earlier in this thread for not enjoying Christmas because I take them down immediately. They’ve been up since beginning December! We have enjoyed them for a whole month. I can’t imagine getting so angry about what other people choose to with their Xmas decorations. Life must be very hard for those people if they fly into rages so easily at such insignificant things. I’m so glad I’m not like that- it sounds a very stressful way to live.

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I think that's a bit overdramatic! Who's flying into a rage? Did they really rage at you? That's mean.

Mine are still up because they went up on 23 December because of a mix of being too busy, not wanting them out too early, seeing Christmas as a season that goes on into New Year and being on holiday. Christmas shows are still on TV.

The point of this thread was to get opinions. We're all different.

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SnowlayRoundabout · 30/12/2022 10:40

LolaMoon · 30/12/2022 06:18

Yes! I got attacked earlier in this thread for not enjoying Christmas because I take them down immediately. They’ve been up since beginning December! We have enjoyed them for a whole month. I can’t imagine getting so angry about what other people choose to with their Xmas decorations. Life must be very hard for those people if they fly into rages so easily at such insignificant things. I’m so glad I’m not like that- it sounds a very stressful way to live.

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Who has flown into a rage on this thread?

For what it's worth, if you put them up in early December and took them down "immediately", they weren't up for "a whole month".

Babdoc · 30/12/2022 10:49

People who put their decs up at the start of December are celebrating Advent, not Christmas.
It’s not surprising they are sick of them by the time actual Christmas (25th Dec to 5th Jan) has barely begun!
In some countries, children receive their presents on Epiphany, in January, to commemorate the arrival of the Magi with their gifts for Christ. That has always seemed logical, and keeps the festive spirit going well into the wintry new year, shortening the misery of January.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 30/12/2022 12:10

Babdoc · 30/12/2022 10:49

People who put their decs up at the start of December are celebrating Advent, not Christmas.
It’s not surprising they are sick of them by the time actual Christmas (25th Dec to 5th Jan) has barely begun!
In some countries, children receive their presents on Epiphany, in January, to commemorate the arrival of the Magi with their gifts for Christ. That has always seemed logical, and keeps the festive spirit going well into the wintry new year, shortening the misery of January.

They are celebrating Christmas if they say they are celebrating Christmas.

DuchessOfDisco · 30/12/2022 15:31

Babdoc · 30/12/2022 10:49

People who put their decs up at the start of December are celebrating Advent, not Christmas.
It’s not surprising they are sick of them by the time actual Christmas (25th Dec to 5th Jan) has barely begun!
In some countries, children receive their presents on Epiphany, in January, to commemorate the arrival of the Magi with their gifts for Christ. That has always seemed logical, and keeps the festive spirit going well into the wintry new year, shortening the misery of January.

I think I would be more inclined to keep mine up until epiphany if that was within the school holidays (4 dc at school/uni and I myself work in a school). If the holidays were 24th December - 6th January and more focus was placed on this in between bit being “Christmas”, then I think more people would keep them up.
however, as we celebrate advent, schools have Christmas fetes in early December, nativities are practised since November, to us Christmas Day is the end of the festivities, as opposed to the beginning. By the 6th Jan we are all back at work, in schools we’ve started a whole new term and focus has turned to mock exams instead, not the Kings turning up. Even Classic FM is no longer playing Christmas tunes. It’s over, until next year

WhatNoRaisins · 30/12/2022 17:02

I love the idea of celebrating Christmas up until Epiphany but agree it's a tough ask when you feel like the only one and the kids are back at school the day after New Years Day. I'd be surprised if you could even find any Christmassy events in the January part of the season.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 30/12/2022 17:16

As Jane Austen put it, one half of the world can’t understand the pleasures of the other.
I for one will never be able to understand people who look forward to taking the decorations down early, and ‘having a really good clean’. 🤔

stargirl1701 · 30/12/2022 18:34

Probably much easier in Scotland due to the 2 Bank Holidays on the 1st and 2nd of January.,

Our schools in Perthshire don't return until 9th January.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 30/12/2022 18:37

I keep.mine up for the 12 days of Christmas, so take them down at Epiphany.

But I couldn't care less what others do.