Please could someone tell me when the decorations should be taken down?

mine went back into the boxes and cupboards yesterday! Ahh.. lovely to put them up..equally good to put them away!

Does anyone remember the equation to work out how long you will keep hoovering up bits of tinsel?

New Year is a good time for a cull!

Jalima it’s time we had another book and dvd cull.....it has to be done!

Well mine came down this afternoon and I'm awaiting a visit from GD or DS to heave them back up on top of the spare bedroom wardrobe!

oh, the dreaded decorating …..
good luck!

I always resolve not to put everything back again but end up keeping it all

Just the living room being painted, but we do have a lot of ‘stuff’ which needs to go into boxes.

My decorations stay up until the 6th Jan and tbh I would allow another week really as the house looks so cosy, but we do need to get them packed away before the decorator arrives ( and then everything needs to be packed away)?

I haven't finished my Magi yet
Too many bits to finish and sew up and stuff, anyway, I did read somewhere that they actually arrived a couple of years after the birth, so there is time yet!

No need to apologise Jalima. 25th December is when Santa visits to drop off presents for GDs.

May be time to let this go now as you, which is your personal choice, adhere to your traditions and my family to ours. Live and let live.

I read on the net that, as jollity on Christmas Day itself was frowned upon in days gone by, the twelve days start on the day after, ie Boxing Day. That makes it the 6th.

Yer pays yer money and yer takes yer pick.

The reason that I originally asked the question was because there always seems to be confusion as whether they should be down by midnight on the 5th or taken down on the 6th, i.e is the 5th twelfth night, or is it the 6th.

(Wish I hadn't asked now, mutter mutter, grumble moan, Phoenix shuffles off to put the shepherd's pie in the oven, even though the price of freshly minced shepherd's has gone through the roof, still, probably cheaper than ground Magi, if you could even find them, although Waitrose might have them, but even so I bet their crowns get stuck between your teeth, and there will always be some awkward git that says "Oh, sorry, I can't eat this, I've got Myrrh intolerance" )

do not follow a Christian celebration.
sharing the magic and excitement of Christmas

sorry, perhaps that is what made me

But it's not thought to be bad luck to put them up before Christmas starts is it?

To be honest, religious or not, for years I have put decorations up and taken them down on dates that were convenient to me.

If the first day of Christmas is Christmas day, how many of the people getting their knickers in a twist about not taking them down until 12th night, refuse to put their decorations up until Christmas day. I doubt if anyone does. Decorations start going up in homes from the start of December.

Yes, but epiphany might not have anything to do with it. If you count up the twelve days, it comes to the fifth.

There is no easy way round this.

Ok mine are down window and plants back to normal carpet swept Lovely all back to normal
Taking them down on a certain day is a bit of a superstition I think

Our local wildlife parks have asked for all real Christmas trees not to throw them away

The date for the Epiphany is General Knowledge, even though religious. A bit like not having heard of Diwali or what time of the year it is.

Simply recycling Glenfinnan ?

DH has been to the tip this morning which he tells me is full of firs/spruce for recycling.

Just finished taking mine down and re-reading the cards. Bin men come tomorrow! Husband despairs that I tear off the backs of cards for shopping lists!!

Epiphany, 6th January, celebrates the arrival of the Wise men to the stable in Bethlehem where Jesus was born.

Quite easily Jalima We are not religious and do not follow a Christian celebration.

For ourDGs it is a magical, exciting time which we enjoy sharing with them.

I have heard people mention taking decorations down on 6th night but they did their thing and I did mine.

No idea when epiphany was nor it’s meaning.

I thoroughly enjoy all the decorating bit and sharing the magic and excitement of Christmas

Kalu how can you know about Christmas and join in the celebrations but not know about Epiphany?

No idea when epiphany was nor it’s meaning.

Four more days to go until the thread finishes then?

Sorry MawBroon

Mr P has said that we will take them down on Sunday, apart from the fairy lights on the large (fake) ficus in the hall. We leave the lights on that permanently, although they are only turned on in the winter months.

We will then have the unenviable job of trying to sort the sitting room ready for the other sort of decorating, the type that involves paint!

Definitely NOT looking forward to that, it will be worth it once it's done, but, oh the chaos and disorder whilst it's happening!