Taking Down Holiday Decor

[Elleshoodat]

We take ours down the weekend closest to the Epiphany. It works out perfectly this year since it falls on a Saturday.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

To me the 12 days of Christmas are the days leading UP to Christmas and Christmas day- after Christmas day to me Christmas is over and I am ready for all decorations to be gone. My friend takes them down Christmas night, it usually takes me a couple days after Christmas to get around to taking them down and tonight is the night. There is no way I want to be looking at Christmas things up in my house in January!

The actual 12 days of Christmas are between Christmas and Epiphany.

Obviously you can celebrate whatever you want, whenever you want.

But for us, it would be like saying, to me Christmas is in October.

 

[Mizzoufan]

As late as I can get away with. It makes me sad. i hate the thought of Christmas being done with.

 

[belle032]

I plan to at least start taking down decorations this Friday and have everything put away by the weekend. I have NYD off so I’d like it to be done before then. Plus, I celebrated Christmas with a stomach bug this year so I’m kind of over it all unfortunately!

 

[PollyannaMom]

I think the trees outside already are probably just dead because people put them up early this year. (We were later than usual, so I'm still enjoying mine.)

Exactly.

The 12 Days of Christmas start at Christmas, they don't end on Christmas.

Our tree is always up until after Feast of the Epiphany.

This year it will probably come down on Jan 7. Then 10 days later we are off to Disney.

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.

I taped a bunch of Christmas movies so I could have them all week!


I love Christmastime as much as the actual day, so I'm good with some lead-up beforehand, but I agree it's being pushed too early lately. - Leave me Halloween and Thanksgiving, please! (But I'll gladly start the weekend after. )

I'll probably put the household decorations away at the end of the week, just because I work on the school schedule and have time now. When the tree comes down is dictated by the Boy Scouts and what day they are picking up. The outdoor lights will stay lit every night until Epiphany, and come down on the first convenient day (time and whether-wise) after that.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

wrong thread

 

[cedricandsophie]

Our tree is dead already. My husbNd won’t allow it to go down until after Jan 1. Otherwise I would take it down now. It’s 12 ft tall and is going to be a pain getting ornaments and lights off. I’ll have to wear gloves to avoid scratches at least it won’t weigh much getting it out to the curb.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I opened an “Us” magazine for the first time in years last week. It used to be one of my favorites. I didn’t know hardly any of the “celebs” in it.

Um, what does this have to do with Christmas decorations?

Our tree is dead already. My husbNd won’t allow it to go down until after Jan 1. Otherwise I would take it down now. It’s 12 ft tall and is going to be a pain getting ornaments and lights off. I’ll have to wear gloves to avoid scratches at least it won’t weigh much getting it out to the curb.

Cuts trees are dying the moment you cut them.

Maybe your husband can help take it down.

 

[tvguy]

Nothing comes down before the Epiphany (January 6th). Historically the Christmas season starts with Christmas on December 25th, and ends on the Epiphany. I remember some friends when I was a kid (early 1960's) where Santa not only brought gifts, but the decorated Christmas tree on Christmas Eve night and they stayed up a week or two into the new year. The retail industry has fueled a much too early start to the Christmas holiday season IMHO.

 

[Deb & Bill]

It's bad luck to leave it up after Epiphany. Plus that is the start of Mardi Gras season. We're taking ours down this weekend because we are going to the marathon next week.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

In our house Christmas decorations and lights on the house go up as soon as our HOA allows (November 15th) though depending on when that falls we wait to do it on the weekend due to day light hours.

Christmas lights on the house will go down depending on weather conditions by January 15th per HOA rules. If weather is bad (wayyyy cold like the last few days have been) or snowing usually a few days extra are given. So sometimes if we know the weather will be good on X day in January before the 15th we'll take them down then.

Last year we were lazy and the Christmas tree stayed up til Valentine's day but that's not normal. Usually inside decor is around mid-January to late January.

ETA: I should add I grew up with the Christmas decor going up right after Thanksgiving (my mom would host Thanksgiving and thus would wait until that day had passed before putting up the decorations). She never had lights on the outside of the house. My dad did but that was usually around Thanksgiving too when it was put up. They would put up a real tree that would be put up around early December and taken down depending on how the tree was doing after Christmas.

 

[tvguy]

It's bad luck to leave it up after Epiphany. Plus that is the start of Mardi Gras season. We're taking ours down this weekend because we are going to the marathon next week.

LOL. Never heard anything about bad luck. That is, however, an odd mix of "holiday seasons". Birth of a Savior season ends with the start of the drinking to excess season.

 

[Minnesota!]

It would have been down last night had we not gone to see Star Wars again. Tonight, more than likely. I was OVER Christmas by Thanksgiving... Bah, Humbug

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Nothing comes down before the Epiphany (January 6th). Historically the Christmas season starts with Christmas on December 25th, and ends on the Epiphany. I remember some friends when I was a kid (early 1960's) where Santa not only brought gifts, but the decorated Christmas tree on Christmas Eve night and they stayed up a week or two into the new year. The retail industry has fueled a much too early start to the Christmas holiday season IMHO.

My parents did that. Santa brought the tree and decorated it. AND brought presents. And yes, our tree stayed up well into January.

LOL. Never heard anything about bad luck. That is, however, an odd mix of "holiday seasons". Birth of a Savior season ends with the start of the drinking to excess season.

The official holiday season isn't over until The Presentation, February 2nd.

 

[Deb & Bill]

LOL. Never heard anything about bad luck. That is, however, an odd mix of "holiday seasons". Birth of a Savior season ends with the start of the drinking to excess season.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/rel...-confusion-over-when-Twelfth-Night-falls.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-twelf...e-take-our-christmas-decorations-down-1599285

All the Twelfth Night balls are held around Jan 5-7 for the start of Mardi Gras. The Krewes start designing and building their floats. They usually have float loading parties a few nights before the parade. And that includes hanging all the beads and other throws on the float. But the parades don't start until a few weeks before Ash Wednesday (when it is all over for Lent).

 

[mummabear]

The actual 12 days of Christmas are between Christmas and Epiphany.

Only if you are religious

 

[LSUmiss]

I like to have everything put away on New Year's Eve.

Do you put up any Mardi Gras decos? That helps it not feel so over to us.

 

[LSUmiss]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/rel...-confusion-over-when-Twelfth-Night-falls.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-twelf...e-take-our-christmas-decorations-down-1599285

All the Twelfth Night balls are held around Jan 5-7 for the start of Mardi Gras. The Krewes start designing and building their floats. They usually have float loading parties a few nights before the parade. And that includes hanging all the beads and other throws on the float. But the parades don't start until a few weeks before Ash Wednesday (when it is all over for Lent).

And don’t forget on 1/6....King cake! Makes taking down Christmas so much more bearable! I’ll leave mine up til 1/5 only b/c it’s a little too early to put up Mardi Gras yet!

 

[msjprincess]

January 6th or 7th

 

[moon]

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.

I agree with everything except that the season starts way to early...it's never too early for me!