Taking Down Holiday Decor

[lorimay]

I put mine up very early this year because last year I broke my foot a week before Thanksgiving and I couldn't really decorate, so I couldn't wait to get the decorations up this year, but I probably will leave them up another week, its so pretty and festive.

 

[Hikergirl]

I leave mine up through the kid's vacation. The first day back to school is when the tree comes down.
Plus we have visitors during the week and they are still celebrating the holidays.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Usually January 1st.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I normally take the tree down on Dec. 31st and the rest of the stuff down around Jan 1st or 2nd.

This year is going to be very different since I had surgery in December and can't do any heavy lifting or much bending until I get approval from my Doctor. Since the appointment is in mid-January, everything will be up much later than usual!
I may have my husband bring the tubs up from the basement before that and see if I'm comfortable enough to put away some of the smaller things before then though.

 

[loves to dive]

When I was a kid ours came down the day after Christmas, I don't remember when we put it up and we always had live trees. My Granny had one of those aluminum ones with the spot lights of different colors that rotated on it. She put it up in her "formal" living room and left it up all year round since no one was allowed in that room to start with. I'll take mine down some time between this weekend and Jan. 2, just depends on my mood. I leave a little table top tree up in my upstairs study all year round. It was my Mama's and she had it in her "formal" living room. She kept it up all year round but did cover it up with a sheet after Christmas. She had a habit of always forgetting to take something down somewhere in the house since she decorated every single room so most of us kids now leave something up all year. Other than the tree in the formal living room, she never left up the same thing every year, it was just something she missed when packing every thing up.

 

[Disneylover99]

We take our tree/decorations down when we get around to it. It's usually all up til at least mid January.

 

[Saphire]

I admit it's one of my pet peeves that the season starts way too early at Thanksgiving, then is scrapped just hours after Christmas. And to find a Christmas movie on Christmas night? Or Christmas music after 6:00? Just crazy.

I am so thankful for the people who leave their lights up until early January. It is so nice to still have that light in dreary winter.

 

[Kellykins1218]

I might have my trees down by Feb. My outside lights will be up until spring & will be lit any time we have snow.

 

[leebee]

Our tree will come down sometime after Twelfth Night. We don't usually put it up until the weekend before Christmas, and I am a sucker for multicolored lights, so I like to leave it up as long as possible; some years there have been more needles on the floor than on the tree by the time we take it down, LOL. Now that we have an artificial tree, who KNOWS when it'll come down??

Lights... right now there's about 18" of snow in my front yard, so it's kinda hard to get to the outdoor trees to take down the decorations. We have icicle lights on the porch; I leave those up all year round. I love their colors and the warm, soft glow they give as we are walking in from the driveway or town in the evening. I love sitting out under the colors in the summer, as day turns to dusk and then darkness sets in, but my lights still bathe everything in colors. So... the decorations in the trees will come down when we can get to them, and the lights on the porch will come down when they burn out- to be replaced by new ones!

 

[scrhsa]

Growing up Mom had us take it down the 26th and all decorations were put away. Unless we had gone somewhere for the holiday. For my family we (really just me ) take it down at Epiphany.

 

[Kitty 34]

I host a large dinner and all day of games, football watching, etc on New Year's Day so we always take our decor down beforehand except for the outside lights.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

With an artificial tree, it's whenever we get around to it after the New Year. The tree and outdoor decorations have been known to stay up until late January or even early February. But we don't light anything after January 3rd or so.

Once we had a real tree it started dropping its needles days before Christmas, so we took it down about December 27. Otherwise the real tree will stay up until New Year's Day at the earliest.

About 25 years ago, I was driving to my brother's house on Christmas Day about 2 pm. There was already a cut tree out by the curb, still decorated. I'm guessing that family didn't have a very good Christmas morning. The bratty kids probably didn't get their Power Rangers or whatever the hot toy was that year, and were whining all morning. Dad got fed up and heaved the tree out the door.

 

[Momto2minniemice]

The tree is put up in Nov and is taken down today the day after Christmas, just like the house to get all nice and cleaned up. If I am lucky it will be in the garage by tomorrow morning as well!

 

[luvsJack]

I aim for January 1. Don't always happen then and this year I go back to work on the 2nd so don't t really want to spend the 1st taking down the tree. Will probably have everything else put away by then though.

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

I don't take anything down until after Epiphany.

 

[DisneyOma]

What does the tree have to do with Epiphany? I get leaving the manger/Jesus type decorations, but how does the tree connect?

We take ours down when it gets a bit dried out - sometime between Boxing Day and New Year's.

 

[Meriweather]

Started taking the inside things down today, tree comes down tomorrow, outside things the next day.
DGD is spending the weekend and I want it down by then.
We have a lot and it takes a long time.
Then next week we start the hauling it all back to storage......4-5 trips.
I leave for Disneyland the 7th, so what everything back to normal by then.....with hopefully some relaxing in there too

 

[kimblebee]

Probably the weekend after New Years. We still light our tree until it gets taken down.

 

[LSUmiss]

Mine come down on 1/5 & Mardi Gras decos go up on 1/6.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

What does the tree have to do with Epiphany? I get leaving the manger/Jesus type decorations, but how does the tree connect?

We take ours down when it gets a bit dried out - sometime between Boxing Day and New Year's.

The tree is a Christmas decoration. In fact, I don't know anyone that puts up a tree but doesn't celebrate Christmas.

Christmas just started.