When Do You Take Down Your Holiday Decorations?

[RedAngie]

Mine stay up until at least all day January 1. The outside lights will be illuminated that evening. Maybe I'll start taking them down next weekend, if I feel like it. Some years they've stayed up well into mid-January.

When I was a kid, I think my parents left up the tree and all the décor until after January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. But by the time I was a teen they dispensed with that.

About 30 years ago, when I had my first apartment, I noticed an older woman neighbor, perhaps 70, unwinding the lights from her balcony about 2pm Christmas Day. I called up to her "Merry Christmas," and she rather snottily replied "Christmas is over." Okaaaaay.

Maybe 20 years ago we were driving to in-laws on Christmas Day about 1pm and we noticed a cut tree out by the curb. It may still have had some decorations on it. ExH theorized that Santa didn't bring the bratty kids their Power Rangers, they were whining about it all morning, the father got fed up and heaved the tree out the door.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Ours will stay up until we get around to taking them down. We don't have a specific time frame (fake trees). Definitely until after New Years, but likely after that, looking at our calendar for January. The worst year, it was the very last week of January.

 

[Disneylover99]

We might not take any decorations down until Feb./March but we turn off the lights outside and on our tree after Jan. 6th.

 

[DeaverTex]

Ours stay lit until Candlemas. Now, as far as taking things down...
The tree looks very festive as a springtime accent to the living room.



Actually, the outside lights come down on the first nice weekend after Candlemas that we both have time and feel like taking them down. We don't leave the tree lit all the time -- only when we're home in the evenings. When we notice that we haven't turned it on for several days in a row, then it comes down.

 

[Kellykins1218]

Sometime between Valentines Day & St. Patrick's Day

 

[#1hoosierfan]

Today

 

[Allison]

I started this morning.

 

[BigAlsGal]

Right after New Years. If they stay up too long I start to get depressed. Feel like a lazy bum.

 

[wishesuponastar]

I think we are taking it down next weekend or the weekend after.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Ours is coming down today, other wise DH can't use his gift.

 

[Domo]

2nd January. It's bad luck to leave the decorations up any longer.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Mine stay up until at least all day January 1. The outside lights will be illuminated that evening. Maybe I'll start taking them down next weekend, if I feel like it. Some years they've stayed up well into mid-January.

When I was a kid, I think my parents left up the tree and all the décor until after January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. But by the time I was a teen they dispensed with that.

About 30 years ago, when I had my first apartment, I noticed an older woman neighbor, perhaps 70, unwinding the lights from her balcony about 2pm Christmas Day. I called up to her "Merry Christmas," and she rather snottily replied "Christmas is over." Okaaaaay.

Maybe 20 years ago we were driving to in-laws on Christmas Day about 1pm and we noticed a cut tree out by the curb. It may still have had some decorations on it. ExH theorized that Santa didn't bring the bratty kids their Power Rangers, they were whining about it all morning, the father got fed up and heaved the tree out the door.

Wow, sorry she was so hard hearted. I just like taking mine down, our tree sure stayed green for the whole month. It is as fresh as it was from day one. Oh well, I wonder if I could replant it….

 

[wishesuponastar]

Ours is coming down today, other wise DH can't use his gift.

Please tell what is DH gift?

 

[Poohforyou]

Mine are coming down next Saturday after our last holiday guest leaves. I want the house back in order and then spend Sunday doing nothing. That's my gift to myself.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Please tell what is DH gift?

It is an optishot 2 golf simulator, and it requires the tv and a stand up net. And the tree is in the way for the net. Living room is not big so the tree has to go. I am grateful we have tall enough ceilings for it. I can't wait to see him use it. He loves playing golf and he can play all kinds of courses.

 

[wishesuponastar]

Hope your hubby has much enjoyment with his gift!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Hope your hubby has much enjoyment with his gift!

Thank you, I am sure he will.

 

[plutotek]

New Year's day, inside and out.

 

[RedAngie]

Wow, sorry she was so hard hearted. I just like taking mine down, our tree sure stayed green for the whole month. It is as fresh as it was from day one. Oh well, I wonder if I could replant it….

That woman was usually fairly pleasant, so her response was kind of a shock. I'm not sure what her situation really was; she lived alone and maybe she had nowhere to go, or no one to visit her. Christmas can be depressing for some people.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Next week the tree comes down and the outside decor gets put away. It's easier to deal with while my son is home from college and I have him haul the tubs of decor up and down the stairs to the attic for me instead of having to listen to my husband grumble about it. LOL I will also put the kitchen decor away then too.

I like to leave all of my nutcrackers out and the mantel decorated until after New Years Day.