When Do You Take Christmas Decorations Down?

[Blakewater]

I've been feeling a little irritated over the last couple of days by people who, bursting with excitement for Christmas, put their decorations up in the middle of November. Now, bored with it all, they're taking them down just a day or two after Boxing Day. I appreciate they can do what they want but I can't help feeling it's a celebration of shopping seasons and consumerism when people start Christmas as shops begin marketing things for it and finish once Christmas Day is over and the shops have moved onto something else. I also think it's a bit of an Americanism as Americans like to start Christmas immediately after Thanksgiving and seem to value the month before it more than the season itself.

If anything makes life feel like it's going by too fast I think it's people being led by marketing and living in the future rather than enjoying the present.

Personally, I like to put my decorations up no more than a couple of weeks before Christmas and keep them up until the Twelfth Night.

So, when do you put your decorations up and when do you take them down?

[Impasse]

Haven't put any up for five years.

[Evolved]

Ours came down day after Boxing Day, we were bored of looking at them tbh. Much better now the Christmas tat has gone.

[vixen1700]

Probably this Sunday.

The house always looks bare briefly at that time of the year.

[Farmerpalmer]

yesterday...job done

[Chrisgr31]

Will take them down over the weekend. There are 12 days of Christmas, but there isn't time to take them down after work on 12th night so I'll do it at the weekend.

[HTP99]

This year we were away so only had a few decorations up and a 3ft tree.

They usually go up the second weekend before Christmas and they come down on or just before my birthday; 5th Jan.

[R1 Indy]

Never went up, Christmas is a big pile of expensive st!

[mikefacel]

After 12th night. It's still Christmas! Hate people/shops starting Christmas early and all the consumerism, but hate people finishing it early even more. All that build up and then it disappears immediately rather than enjoying the season.

[0000]

I'm just hoping the wife takes the tree down before a wall bracket arrives for the TV, it's right in the way.

[RobDickinson]

New Years day.

I quite like xmas decs ( tho not overdone) but it has to be kept to the 12 days or so otherwise it looses its aura. If Christmas is November, December and most of Jan its a season not a holiday... too long.

[stuartmmcfc]

Yesterday, but it's my lads birthday today so we like to have a "blank canvas" for his cards and things.
Otherwise they'd be up until 12th night.

[justanother5tar]

Go up on 1st December. Come down the day before I go back to work.

[HOGEPH]

Day after boxing day. Christmas is over, move on!

[227bhp]

Impasse said:

Haven't put any up for five years.

I can beat that you miserable fker, I've never put any up in my life

[poing]

Today, although half of them were taken down by the cat so I just finished what he started.

[StevenB]

6th jan. 12th night.

[Tango13]

Normally Easter but sometimes May Bank Holiday, the 1st one, not the second one, I'm not 'Council' FFS!

[msej449]

Traditionally, Christmas ends on the Epiphany, when the Wise Men turned up with the final set of presents. Gold makes up for a late arrival, I guess. That's January 6th / 12th night. Our three Wise Men are making the slow journey from the sideboard, across the bay window, over the mantlepiece to the crib by the tree. Marginally quicker than getting to London via Southern Rail.

Edited by msej449 on Wednesday 30th December 23:30

[MG CHRIS]

Impasse said:

Haven't put any up for five years.

This I live in a dead end street so cant really see the point neither.