It's Beginning to Not Look Like Christmas....

Shannon023
Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
edited October 6 in Chit-Chat
So when do you take your decorations down??

I'm the day after Christmas girl and get some flack about that from friends and family. :embarassed:

How about yourself? :smile:
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  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    Day after for sure. I have to get my bike back in the living room!
  • MrsCon40
    MrsCon40 Posts: 2,351 Member
    New Years Day at night. I have a hard time putting them away, but justify keeping them up until then because it is still the holiday season! :laugh:
  • jenniet04
    jenniet04 Posts: 1,054 Member
    Sometime before the new year.
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    we won't be home until the 30th, so then is a good time. I want my living room back to normal and the tacky decorations away.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    Christmas day after the kids open presants
  • april_beth
    april_beth Posts: 616 Member
    new years day in this house. i put the tree up the day after thanksgiving. i dont go through all that *kitten* work for nothing :)
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    usually around news years, but this year early due to a early party. (with craploads of people)
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Generally, right around New Years', but this year my daughter is bringing her kids in the third week of January, so we are extending it by a lot!
  • brattyworm
    brattyworm Posts: 2,137 Member
    Usually New Years Day. Although, I have been known to not even put out decorations on years when the hubs isn't around to help.
  • WillieEverlearn
    WillieEverlearn Posts: 87 Member
    Why bother taking them down at all? Christmas will be back again next year.
  • Pams_Shadow
    Pams_Shadow Posts: 233 Member
    Take them down? Why would I do that? I keep those mothers up all year then just put new ones over the top of the burned out ones. Waste of time to take them down when I know I'm just gonna put them back up next year.

    Hahaha... couldn't help myself!
  • virgo1978
    virgo1978 Posts: 73 Member
    Not until January 6th-ish. After the 12 days of Christmas are over. I love the decorations & lights, so I don't mind leaving them up for a while. :smile:
  • shanolap
    shanolap Posts: 1,204 Member
    I take the decorations down a few days after Christmas. But the tree and lights come down after New Years.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    New Years Day
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I don't decorate for Christmas.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I have some Halloween decorations still up. My purple lights and silver skull tinsel....:blushing:
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,332 Member
    Some time in January, but I would happily leave them up until Spring.
  • Jovialation
    Jovialation Posts: 7,632 Member
    Whenever I get back from Xmas things and done with hanging out with friends back in town for the holiday, I guess.
  • beccyleigh
    beccyleigh Posts: 846 Member
    I only decorate the mantle, put up a nativity scene & of course the tree, no hanging decorations or lights, nothing to invasive or space consuming so ours stay up till the weekend after new year.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    I'm usually the day after. My mom though, starts in the afternoon on Christmas Day. EVERYTHING is gone by the end of the day.

    JM
  • stcar
    stcar Posts: 207 Member
    Sometime before the new year.
    same here, has to be down by new years day...or it's bad luck (so I've heard).
  • luvJOJO
    luvJOJO Posts: 1,881 Member
    before new years
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    New Year's or week of/after that. I also decorate the day after Thanksgiving. I want it to last for as long as possible!
  • nicehormones
    nicehormones Posts: 503 Member
    Usually take them down about a week after Christmas. This year, we moved into a new apartment and just put our tree up yesterday, so I told my boyfriend we are keeping it up through January. We'll see ;)
  • Lizzy_Sunflower
    Lizzy_Sunflower Posts: 1,510 Member
    Not until January 6th-ish. After the 12 days of Christmas are over. I love the decorations & lights, so I don't mind leaving them up for a while. :smile:

    We also leave them up until the Epiphany. My mom calls it Three King's day. :smile:
  • fakeplastictree
    fakeplastictree Posts: 836 Member
    January 2nd. I leave my halloween ones up year round. :)
  • DizzieLittleLifter
    DizzieLittleLifter Posts: 1,020 Member
    I get tired of the clutter so ASAP. The tree will be the first to go because it takes up 1/2 my dining room!
  • 4HealthyMe
    4HealthyMe Posts: 34 Member
    New Year's Eve the decorations come down. It doesn't take that long, we still enjoy the festivities that night, and we start the new year all fresh and clean. Great start if you ask me.
  • AliciaBeth78
    AliciaBeth78 Posts: 437 Member
    Is it horrible that I haven't even put my Christmas Decor up yet? I mean my tree is up, but it's 80+ degrees today (and it has been around there for the last few weeks!) It just doesn't seem "Christmas-y?" I'm over Florida :(
  • kc0kiu
    kc0kiu Posts: 28 Member
    First week in January. Husband usually wants them down by then. It will depend on the weather. If you have to break ice to get them down , forget it! We have let the snow bury some things, usually found by the end of January.
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